fuel cell technology Articles
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Fuel cell technological innovation system in Iran
This article provides an overview of innovation processes have been taken in the field of fuel cell technology (FCT) in Iran. Fuel cell technology is a generic technology with wide variety areas of application in automobile and energy production both for industrial and residential purposes and also it is expected to have a large societal impact on the future society. In this article concerning ...
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Strategic innovation in sustainable technology: the case of fuel cells for vehicles
This paper explores the gap between the implied theoretical 'assumption' that development of technologies for sustainable development should be a smooth evolutionary transition and the reality of such change. Here, we identify a split between macro, long-term models of transition to greater environmental sustainability through innovation, as found in theories of ecological modernisation, ...
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Fuel cell heating appliances field tests
The beginning of field tests with a new generation of fuel cell heating appliances (FCHAs) under the responsibility of Vaillant brings fuel cell technology for decentralized household energy supply into a new phase. The objective of testing the systems, which were developed in close cooperation with the US company Plug Power, is to examine how complexity and thus the systems' costs can be ...
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Developments in Auxiliary Power for Vehicles
Fuel cells are widely recognised as a technology of the future and as a potential replacement for the internal combustion engine in cars and other vehicles.This article looks at the potential for fuel cells to provide auxiliary power to vehicles, rather than primary motive power. Today, hydrogen-fuelled proton exchange membrane (PEM) type fuel cells, as illustrated in Figure 1, are ...
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Fuel Cells Technology Promises Greener Future” Concludes Malaya Business Insight Upon Meeting GenCell CEO Rami Reshef
Malaya Business Insight Reporter Anton de los Reyes met with GenCell CEO Rami Reshef to learn about the launch of GenCell’s fuel cells in the Philippines. The article highlights the GenCell Remote IoT Manager, the software and app that allow remote control and monitoring of the equipment. Using the software allows users to track and optimize fuel cell performance in real-time and to receive ...
By GenCell Ltd
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PHILOS and Blue FC Announce R&D and Business Cooperation to Revolutionize Fuel Cell Technology
PHILOS, a leading membrane technology manufacturing company, and Blue FC, a fuel cell system company, have announced a ground-breaking R&D and business cooperation that is set to revolutionize the fuel cell industry. The CEOs of both companies, Dr. Jeong-Hak Kim of PHILOS and Dr. Yong Sheen Hwang of Blue FC, have agreed to work together to develop innovative solutions using PHILOS's advanced ...
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South Africa`s fuel cell plan risks failure without support
An ambitious strategy to create fuel cell products for export will need incentives and cross-government backing to bear fruit, says Radhika Perrot. South Africa's Department of Science & Technology (DST) has been laboriously pushing for the development of hydrogen fuel-cell technology through an ambitious research and development (R&D) strategy since 2005. Fuel cells can convert the ...
By SciDev.Net
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Pace Project - Case Study
PACE stands for Pathway to a Competitive European Fuel Cell micro-Cogeneration Market. It is a €90 million public-private project co-funded by the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 Joint Undertaking (FCH JU). PACE is a major EU project unlocking the large scale European deployment of the latest smart energy solution for private homes, Fuel Cell micro-Cogeneration. PACE will see over 2,500 ...
By COGEN Europe
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Uninterruptible Power Supply - Case Study
Overview Events such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 have focused attention on the availability and reliability of telecommunications services worldwide. Both wireless and wireline communications are expanding globally, so the provision of reliable, economical power is vital. Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) networks in use by emergency services, military personnel and government agencies require ...
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Reviewing the factors affecting regenerative molten carbonate fuel cells
To evaluate the possibility to use molten carbonate fuel cell technology for high temperature electrolysis, the factors affecting the electrode reactions have been examined by surveying the published literature. The literature results showed that H2, CO2 and CO evolved as cathode off–gases and O2 as anode gas. At low polarisation, the discharge of oxide ions to O2 was the only anodic process; ...
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Fuel cells - the environmentally friendly energy converter and power generator
Heat engines based on fossil fuel combustion produce harmful pollutant emissions. Environmental concerns and sustainable development call for new technology for energy conversion and power generation, which is more efficient, environmentally friendly and compatible with alternative fuels and renewable energy sources and carriers. Fuel cells meet all these requirements and are being rapidly ...
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Commercial Demonstration of a PEM Fuel Cell for Power Generation
The chlor-alkali industry, one of the largest chemical industries in India and growing at an annual rate of 3.3%, is expected to grow along with the growing Indian economy. This MW size proton-exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell product captures hydrogen produced in the chlor-alkali industry to create on site electricity and provide plant operators up to 20% of electricity savings. The electricity ...
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Ene.Field Project - Case Study
The ene.field project is the largest European demonstration of the latest smart energy solution for private homes, Fuel Cell micro-Cogeneration. The EU co-funded project ene.field has deployed more than 1,000 residential fuel cell Combined Heat and Power (micro-CHP) installations, across 11 key European countries. It represents a step change in the volume of fuel cell micro-CHP (micro FC-CHP) ...
By COGEN Europe
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Incentives, coordination and learning in government-sponsored vs. spontaneous inter-firm research cooperation
Our paper is a primary attempt at characterising two types of inter-firm agreements from a micro-analytical perspective: publicly funded collaborations stimulated by research and development government programmes vs. spontaneous, privately funded joint research projects. Using a three-dimensional grid in terms of incentives, coordination and learning, we suggest that the two organisational modes ...
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China must be encouraged to develop hydrogen energy and fuel cell technology using domestic resources
This paper describes the current situation in China and the reasons for the rapidly increasing consumption of oil and the consequent search for new sources. Some suggestions are made for the rapid development and commercialisation of hydrogen energy systems in China using domestic resources. China could satisfy the energy demand with her domestic resources of renewable energies and depending on ...
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Towards an European Fuel Cell Strategy
Head of Unit 'Energy Consumption Technology' At the onset of the Fourth Framework Programme for Community research and technological development including demonstration, a ten year fuel cell strategy for Europe was published in 1995 jointly by DG XII (Directorate General for Science, Research and Development) and DG XVII (Directorate General for Energy). The interest of the European Community ...
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Exergy analysis of gas turbine – solid oxide fuel cell–based combined cycle power plant
Fuel cell technology is one of the promising systems for cleaner and competitive alternate power generation systems. When the high temperature fuel cells like solid oxide fuel cell and molten carbon fuel cell are integrated with the gas turbines, the total thermal efficiency of the combined cycle can be obtained greater than 60%. In the present work, thermodynamic analysis of SOFC–GT combined ...
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Hexavalent chromium reduction and energy recovery by using dual-chambered microbial fuel cell
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology is utilized to treat hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) from wastewater and to generate electricity simultaneously. The Cr(VI) is bioelectrochemically reduced to non-toxic Cr(III) form in the presence of an organic electron donor in a dual-chambered MFC. The Cr(VI) as catholyte and artificial wastewater inoculated with anaerobic sludge as anolyte, Cr(VI) at 100 ...
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Biomass-fired fuel cells
The results are presented of a techno-economic analysis of systems integrating biomass gasification plant with phosphoric acid and molten carbonate fuel cells. The cases studied relate to the generation of electricity at a scale of 500 kWe. At this level, the plant would be suitable for small-scale commercial or industrial application and would allow for the export of surplus electricity. The ...
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Gas Analysers for Fuel Cell Research
Electrochemical fuel cells are envisaged as a potential successor technology to combustion engines in the automotive sector. Although studies have considered numerous gaseous elements as the fuel source for electrochemical stacks, hydrogen (H2) remains the primary element of interest in automotive engineering. Gas analysers have proven instrumental in demonstrating the advantages and drawbacks of ...
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