School Presentation Adapted From 'Engineering Masterclasses' given for the Royal Institution / Royal Academy of Engineering. This presentation given to Hawthorn High School, Pontypridd as part of the Mid Glamorgan Business Education Partnership.

1. This presentation is extracted from a resource created for the
Royal Institution / Royal Academy of Engineering ‘Engineering Masterclass’ programme.
Featuring images from ‘Fuel Cell Projects for the Evil Genius’ and ‘Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels’

6. The Fuel Cell is not a
new concept. The first
fuel cell was developed
in 1845 by the Welsh
scientist Sir William
Robert Grove.
Diagram of Grove’s Original Fuel Cell
A fuel cell converts Remember!
chemical energy to Catalysts are not used or
consumed in a reaction – a
electrical energy using
catalyst increases the rate of a
the process of catalysis. chemical reaction.

14. • Where did Sir William Robert Grove the
inventor of the Fuel Cell come from?
• Using the process called electrolysis, what can
we split water into?
• What does a fuel cell produce?

15. •Paperback: 196 pages
•Publisher: McGraw‐Hill/TAB Electronics
•Language: English
•ISBN‐10: 0071496599
•ISBN‐13: 978‐0071496599
You can find more experiments with Fuel Cells, information about clean
energy and information about how to take the learning in today’s
masterclass forward in ‘Fuel Cells Projects for the Evil Genius’.