solid oxide fuel cell News
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Residential Fuel Cells Around the Corner
WESTWOOD, Massachusetts (ENS) - Acumentrics Corporation, a developer of solid oxide fuel cells, has submitted a five kilowatt fuel cell generator that could supply power to a home to federal government authorities for evaluation. The solid oxide fuel cell generator will be evaluated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. NIST is ...
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Lockheed Martin To Integrate Fuel Cells, Solar Power For Military Applications Under Contract With Office Of Naval Research
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] secured a contract with the Office of Naval Research for the design and development of solid oxide fuel cell generator set as an alternative to traditional battlefield power generation equipment. Lockheed Martin's fuel cell technology will be integrated with solar panels, providing the military with the power needed to perform missions while using dramatically less ...
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NAUTILUS and SolydEra achieve Milestone with Successful Installation of 40 kW SOFC System in Finland
In a significant leap towards sustainable energy solutions, NAUTILUS and SolydEra proudly announce the successful installation of a groundbreaking 40 kW Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) system at the premises of one of the Finnish power companies in Tampere area. The system was designed as the first prototype to validate the efficacy of SolydEra stacks within given configurations. In the current ...
By SolydEra SpA
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Cummins Receives Federal Grants To Advance Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
Cummins Inc. has announced the company received two federal grants totaling $4.6 million to advance commercialization of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology, which could play a critical role in helping commercial and industrial customers reduce their carbon impact while providing energy resiliency and cutting costs. SOFCs can convert fossil fuels into energy much more efficiently than ...
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SECA fuel cell technology proves successful in US Navy`s proof-of-concept testing
Two technologies developed under the US Department of Energy's Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA) fuel cell program recently passed successful proof-of-concept tests by the US Navy's Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division located in Newport, Rhode Island. The tests mark a breakthrough for solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC)-based power systems and reflect the potential of SOFC technology for ...
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Alfa Chemistry Materials Launches Alternative Energy Materials for Renewable Energy Technology Development
Efficient collection and storage of renewable forms of energy, such as solar radiation or wind, requires the development of advanced functional materials. To better meet the increasing demand for such functional materials, Alfa Chemistry Materials, a chemical vendor headquartered in New York, USA, announced to provide a broad varieties of alternative energy materials for research groups or ...
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SolydEra and HnPower: Celebrating five years of successful cooperation
As the world rediscovers Hydrogen to help boost decarbonization, a Korean and a European industry leader are already celebrating five years of successful cooperation in the field of Solid-Oxide fuel cells (SOFC). SolydEra has now been a supplier of fuel cell stacks to its Korean partner HnPower for five years. The partnership started in 2018 with a handful of SOFC stacks, produced by ...
By SolydEra SpA
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Bloom Energy Completes Fuel Cell Project at Morgan Stanley Global Headquarters in New York City
Morgan Stanley and Bloom Energy announced the completion of a fuel cell project at Morgan Stanley's global headquarters in New York City's Times Square neighborhood. The 750 kW fuel cell project at 1585 Broadway is fully operational and will provide approximately 6 million kWh of clean electricity each year. Executives from Morgan Stanley, Bloom Energy, Con Edison and New York State Energy ...
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A greener way to get electricity from natural gas
A new type of natural-gas electric power plant proposed by MIT researchers could provide electricity with zero carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, at costs comparable to or less than conventional natural-gas plants, and even to coal-burning plants. But that can only come about if and when a price is set on the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases — a step the U.S. ...
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AT&T to power 11 California sites with bloom energy fuel cells DALLAS and SUNNYVALE, Calif.
AT&T and Bloom Energy Corporation announced today that Bloom Energy will install Bloom Energy Servers, or Bloom Boxes, at eleven AT&T sites in California. AT&T is the first telecommunications service provider to utilize Bloom Energy Servers to help power their operations. Through the use of this breakthrough solid oxide fuel cell technology, the Bloom Boxes will provide 7.5 megawatts ...
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Agricultural waste could power fuel cells for clean energy
Agricultural waste (such as plant stalks) is an accepted energy source for second-generation biofuels. Recently, Greek scientists have recognised the potential to use biological material, including agricultural waste, for fuel cells. This technology has potential to provide decentralised, renewable heat and power and may become a major technology for power generation in the coming decades because ...
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World's Largest Renewable Energy Storage Project Announced in Utah
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) and Magnum Development recently (5/30) joined The Honorable Gary Herbert, Governor of Utah, to announce an initiative to launch the Advanced Clean Energy Storage (ACES) project in central Utah. In the world's largest project of its kind, the ACES initiative will develop 1,000 megawatts of 100 percent clean energy storage, thereby deploying technologies and ...
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Alfa Chemistry Materials Launches High Quality Perovskite Materials for Optoelectronic and Photovoltaic Research
In a recent statement, Alfa Chemistry Materials announces to have launched a comprehensive line of high quality perovskite materials, which emerged as the most promising and efficient low-cost energy materials in various optoelectronic and photovoltaic researches and are currently in urgent demand. Ever since the Russian scientist Gustav Rose found perovskite, a mineral composed of calcium ...
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EU project prototypes methanol fuel cell for ships
After nearly one and a half years of research and development, the EU-funded METHAPU (‘Validation of renewable methanol based auxiliary power systems for commercial vessels’) project is about to start trials on a prototype of a methanol-based solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) unit. The protoype will be tried and tested for performance and emissions under real-life conditions onboard a car transport ...
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Doosan Fuel Cell Teams with Shell and KSOE for Maritime Fuel Cell Development and Demonstration
It aims to commercialize maritime fuel cells in 2025, thereby proactively responding to action on cutting greenhouse gas emissions from shipping. The consortium will accommodate ship owners and maritime classification societies. Doosan Fuel Cell rolls its sleeves to develop and demonstrate green marine fuel cells, teaming up with Shell, a global energy company. Doosan Fuel Cell unveiled ...
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Bloom Energy Successfully Deploys its First Fuel Cells Powered Solely by Hydrogen
Bloom Energy announced this week that, in collaboration with its Korean partner, SK Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd., an affiliate of SK Group, it has successfully deployed 100 kilowatts of solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFC) powered solely by hydrogen in Ulsan, South Korea, generating zero-carbon onsite electricity.Bloom Energy InstallationHydrogen fuel cells, which convert hydrogen into ...
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Frost & Sullivan forecasts accelerated growth for European stationary fuel cells
Innovative developments in the European stationary fuel cell market are shaping an optimistic future for the industry. There is a growing interest in many European countries to adopt this 'zero-emission' technology across various applications. Boosted by this need of sustainable solutions, the fuel cell market is transitioning from validation to the pre-commercialisation stage. Frost & ...
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Demonstration projects at Hydrogen Expo USA
SMEs find growth market in hydrogen technologies Alpen, 21-Feb-05 – At Hydrogen Expo(TM) USA from March 29 to April 1, 2005 in Washington, DC, Ztek Corporation of Woburn, MA will be showcasing its current hydrogen demonstration projects. Ztek is one of many small and mid-sized companies (SMEs) seizing the opportunities which the market for hydrogen and fuel cell products offers. The ...
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Military Fuel Cells Provide Light and Efficient On-Demand Power for Troops, Global Market for Fuel Cells to Reach $1.7 billion in 2017
FARMINGTON, Conn., Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The strongest drivers for the adoption of fuel cells by the world's armed forces are performance and energy density, particularly for use by individual troopers. On average, each soldier carries around nine pounds of disposable batteries in their kit, used for powering a range of portable electronics such as imaging and communications ...
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Hybrid system could cut coal-plant emissions in half
Original story at MIT News Most of the world’s nations have agreed to make substantial reductions in their greenhouse gas emissions, but achieving these goals is still a considerable technological, economic, and political challenge. The International Energy Agency has projected that, even with the new agreements in place, global coal-fired power generation will increase over the next few ...
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