Posts Tagged fuel cell

New UK-Led Project Aims to Combine Biofuel and Microbial Cell in Cheap Fuel Cells

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power on May 9, 2012

Biofuel cells (BFCs) and microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are about to get a boost in efficiency thanks to a project aimed at creating hybrid electrodes. In this particular meaning, “hybrid” means that the UK-led project will combine inorganic with organic electrodes to make them more efficient and cheap, and avoid the use of platinum, nowadays [...]

Phoshporic Acid Fuel Cells Explained by International Team of Scientists

Posted by Boniface Ndirangu in Hydrogen Power on April 23, 2012

The molecular workings of a promising fuel cell electrolyte have been unraveled by chemists. A team of investigators from the New York University and the Max Planck Institute (Stuttgart) have revealed how protons migrate in phosphoric acid (H3PO4), a mineral acid, in a study published in Nature Chemistry. A mystery has always surrounded the understanding of [...]

Apple to Build 4.8MW Fuel Cell System Powered by Biogas at Its NC Data Center

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Biogas on April 2, 2012

If you remember, we’ve been talking about Apple’s new and bold green statement recently. At that time we’ve been telling you about the plans to power their new North Carolina data center with solar panels and biogas. Now, the company that Steve Jobs saved from peril in 1997 is building world’s largest private owned fuel [...]

German Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Completes 40,000 Hours Endurance Test, Exceeds Expectations

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Magnetic Power on March 30, 2012

“Time will tell,” they say. Well, time has told good things about a planar solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) used in industrial purposes, which has recently completed and even exceeded 40,000 hours of continuous operation. The fuel cell, originally designed and built at the Jülich Institute of Energy and Climate Research in Germany, is operating [...]

Japanese Power Systems Company Sells Salt Water Fuel Cells

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on March 28, 2012

A new magnesium fuel cell using saltwater as electrolyte is now being commercialized by Tokyo-based Furukawa Battery, a company specialized in power systems. The electrolyte, just like in any other fuel cell, carries charged particles from one electrode to another, and electricity is generated following this reaction. “It is now possible to install an inexpensive [...]

Osaka Student Team Creates Hydrogen-Powered Car From Scratch

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power on January 16, 2012

Everyone started building battery-powered electric vehicles lately, but few are those who built cars whose power comes from hydrogen fuel cells. Such an example comes from a team of students at Osaka Sangyo University, who built a fuel cell-powered car from scratch, creating Japan’s first non-industrial team to ever accomplish this. Actually, they haven’t been [...]

BMW to Use GM and Toyota Technology for Future Hydrogen-Powered Cars

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Car industry on December 12, 2011

BMW is seemingly looking for ties in the auto industry with Toyota and General Motors to develop future battery and hydrogen fuel cell-powered EVs, says Motorauthority.com, quoting the German Wirtschaftswoche (Business Week). So GM’s Volt technology may not be officially a secret any longer, and Toyota’s Hybrid Synergy Drive could enhance the power of all [...]

Wachsman's Fuel Cell Can Transform Various Fuels Into Electricity – Not Only Hydrogen

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power on December 5, 2011

A new fuel cell that uses not only pure hydrogen to generate electricity has been discovered by Eric Wachsman, an engineering professor at the University of Maryland. It could be used in applications ranging from laptops to powering entire buildings, emitting only a fraction of the pollution today’s fuel-burning engines do. We’ve been used to [...]

Apple-Patented Fuel Cell Innovation Could Make Portable Devices Lighter & More Powerful

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power on October 21, 2011

Apple has always been seen as the leader in technical innovation of the IT sector. Now Apple seems to getting involved in more than just IT: hydrogen fuel cells… …for computers, that is. The Cupertino-based company has patented in April two ways which describe how fuel cells could be made smaller, lighter and more efficient [...]

New Aluminum Alloy Helps Generate Clean Water and Cheap Electricity

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power, Water Purifiers on May 4, 2011

A new aluminum alloy could soon clean out water and at the same time generate electricity for afflicted areas. Purdue University researchers Jerry Woodall and Go Choi have been working on the alloy of aluminum, gallium, indium and tin that could split polluted or salt water into hydrogen and oxygen and then reunite them to generate electricity and pure water.

Delft Students Make Titanium Dioxide Nanocrystals Help Fuel Cells Become More Efficient

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power on March 28, 2011

Fuel cells can have a hope of improvement due to a discovery by TU Delft researchers in Holland. They added minuscule titanium dioxide crystals to solid electrolytes to make them more conductive. Unlike liquid electrolytes, solid ones have the advantage of being more stable and easier to be contained. Electrolytes are also used mainly in batteries, between their two electrodes.

Volvo Tests Petrol-Powered Fuel Cells For Extending EV Range

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Electric Vehicles, Hydrogen Power on October 28, 2010

Volvo has been testing lately their newest innovation in the field of electric cars – an electric car range extender based on a hydrogen fuel cell powered by liquid organic fuels, such as petrol. In collaboration with Powercell Sweden AB, Volvo’s range extender could take the EV for up to 250 kilometers more and at the same time only emit minute carbon dioxide quantities.

Mercedes Benz Starts Leasing B-Class Fuel Cell Vehicles In Europe and US

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power on October 22, 2010

Only to the visually-impaired it may look like fuel cells and electric cars don’t enjoy success nowadays. Daimler AG has just started a pilot program of leasing Mercedes-Benz hydrogen fuel cell cars to 5 to 15 users in the US, to see how their car acts in real life conditions and how people receive them. To me this looks like a postpone of the real thing, just like GM did to EV1.

Catalothermionic Generator: A New Blend of Solar and Fuel Cell Nanotechnology Produces Electricity

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power, New Inventions on September 23, 2010

…it’s like hydrogen and the Sun are related in a way… the star’s energy comes from burnt hydrogen, on one hand, and on the other, here on Earth, solar cells are the best means of generating hydrogen out of water and have it used as an energy source. There’s an interesting symmetry between the two.

Market Analysis Company Predicts Cheaper Fuel Cells Within Few Years

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Hydrogen Power on September 16, 2010

RNCOS, a market analysis company, has evaluated the development of the fuel cell industry and recently published a research report called “Fuel Cell Industry Analysis.” The report says that the global fuel cell industry will sustain its development trend in the near future.

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