10.426
Electrochemical Energy Systems
Introduces electrochemical energy systems from the perspective of thermodynamics, kinetics, and transport. Surveys analysis and design of electrochemical reactions and processes by integrating chemical engineering fundamentals with knowledge from diverse fields, including chemistry, electrical engineering, and materials science. Includes applications to fuel cells, electrolyzers, and batteries. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
Spring 2014
Topics
- Syllabus, overview
- Basic physics of galvanic cells, Electrochemical energy conversion
- Electrochemical energy storage
- Equivalent circuit dynamics
- Impedance I
- Impedance II
- Impedance III
- Statistical thermodynamics, regular solution model
- Nernst equation, open circuit voltage
- Fuel cells and batteries
- Pourbaix diagram
- Metal acid batteries, Lemon battery demo
- Li-ion batteries, pseudocapacitance
- Ideal solution model, linear sweep voltammetry
- Regular solution model, phase separation
- Reactions in concentrated solutions
- Faradaic reactions
- Butler-Volmer equation
- Electrocatalysis
- Electrochemical phase transformations–constant voltage
- Electrochemical phase transformations–constant current
- Homogeneous charge transfer
- Heterogeneous charge transfer
- Charge transfer at metal electrodes
- Concentration polarization
- Transient diffusion
- Warburg impedance
- Forced convection I
- Forced convection II
- Forced convection III
- Transport in solids
- Concentrated solutions, bulk electrolytes
- Homogeneous reaction-diffusion
- Ion concentration polarization
- Double layers, supercapacitors
- Transport in porous media
- Scaling analysis of energy storage
- Porous electrodes (overview)
Readings
- Required readings will include selected lecture notes from previous semesters of the course, as well as research articles, and chapters from the following textbooks:
- Bard, Allen J., and Larry R. Faulkner. Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications . 2nd ed. Wiley, 2000. ISBN: 9780471043720.
- O’ Hayre, Ryan, Suk-Won Cha, et al. Fuel Cell Fundamentals . 2nd ed. Wiley, 2009. ISBN: 9780470258439.
Prerequisites & course information
Subject meets with 10.626 Prereq: 10.302 or permission of instructor U (Spring) 3-0-9 units
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2014
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.