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Transition to Hydrogen
Pathways Toward Clean Transportation
This book is prehensive and objective guide to understanding hydrogen as a
transportation fuel. The effects that pursuing different vehicle technology development
paths will have on the economy, the environment, public safety, and human health
are presented with implications for policy makers, industrial stakeholders, and
researchers alike. Using hydrogen as a fuel offers a possible solution to satisfying
global mobility needs, including sustainability of supply and the potential reduction
of greenhouse gas emissions. This book presents research on issues that are at the
intersection of hydrogen and transportation, since studies of vehicles and energy
carriers are inseparable. It concentrates on light-duty vehicles (cars and light trucks),
set in the context of peting technologies, the larger energy sector, and
the overall economy. The book is invaluable for researchers and policy makers in
transportation policy, energy economics, systems dynamics, vehicle powertrain
modelling and simulation, environmental science, and environmental engineering.
alexander wokaun is Head of the General Energy Research Department at
the Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland, and is a Professor at ETH Zurich.
He received his PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich,
and subsequently worked at IBM and the Bell Laboratories. From 1982 to 1985, he
directed a programme on surface energy transfer processes at ETH Zurich. In 1986,
he became Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Bayreuth, with a
research prising studies of materials surfaces, catalytic reaction mech-
anisms, and laser surface modification. Since 1994, he has led the General Energy
Research Department of the Paul Scherrer Institute, and has taught in the Chemistry
Department at ETH Zurich. Development of a sustainable energy system is