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Fuel Cell Today Articles
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Prime Power Generation - Case Study
A national electricity grid must always be able to meet the needs of its users. This requires it to be: stable, maintaining the required electrical frequency (50 Hz in the UK); balanced, continuously matching supply to demand; and adequate, ensuring ...
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Renewable Energy Systems - Case Study
Overview Generating renewable electricity is an important way to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and many countries are installing wind and solar power plants to help meet targets for cutting CO2. One drawback of these energy sources is ...
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Valorising By-Product Hydrogen - Case Study
Overview Electrochemical processes, such as the industrial production of caustic soda and chlorine, use large quantities of electricity which contribute significantly to production costs, up to 70% in some cases. They also produce hydrogen as a ...
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Residential Heat and Power - Case Study
A wide variety of technologies are available to provide heating and electricity to our homes. In countries with a stable electricity grid, lighting and heating are taken for granted; but the desire for cleaner energy is highlighting how dirty grid ...
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Converting Waste to Energy - Case Study
Waste management is a necessity wherever people live, but traditionally waste is viewed as a problem, something that pollutes and needs reducing or mitigating. What if this mindset could be changed such that we value our waste as a source of ...
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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, ...