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Electrochemistry Crash Course for Engineers

Electrochemistry Crash Course for Engineers

Slobodan Petrovic

Electrochemistry Crash Course for Engineers

Slobodan Petrovic Oregon Institute of Technology Happy Valley, OR, USA

ISBN 978-3-030-61561-1 ISBN 978-3-030-61562-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61562-8

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Preface

The field of renewable energy is extremely diverse and multidisciplinary. The individual renewable energy technologies are enabled by many other technologies and areas of science. One of the most critical enabling areas is electrochemistry, the interfacial science that studies the intersection between chemistry and electricity. Knowledge of electrochemistry is necessary to understand and design energy storage systems, batteries, fuel cells, electrochemical supercapacitors, and hydrogen technologies. Electrochemical principles are also important for understanding mechanisms in solar photovoltaic devices. Additionally, corrosion and electrochemical sensing control systems play an important role in all aspects of integrated system design. Electrochemistry is one of the most important sciences in our present-day economy. It provides a basis for significant processes such as those in primary and secondary batteries and fuel cells; the production of chlorine and caustic soda; electrowinning of metals, electroplating, electromachining; the study and prevention of corrosion; and numerous types of sensors and electroanalysis. In the USA, the electrochemical technologies contri