Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation and RWE have announced that the world’s longest operating high temperature fuel cell power system, the 100 kW solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) co-generation system, ...

PEM fuel cells have good efficiency and low operating temperature and could play an important role in power generation in the future. They are currently the leading technology for automotive ...

Engineers at the University of Utah have developed and built the very first fuel cell using jet fuel that operates at room-temperature without the need to ignite the fuel. Using enzymes to help ...

Principal investigator Meilin Liu holds up an example of the new, practical, affordable fuel cell in his lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Fuel cells have not been particularly known for ...

(Top) Schematic diagram of a PC-SOFC; (Bottom left) Arrhenius plot and activation energy of BCPY thin film on the anode side; and (Bottom right) Conductivity of BCPY thin films as a function of oxygen ...

Engineers from the University of Utah have developed a special type of fuel cell that’s able to convert jet fuel into electricity at room temperature, without the needing to ignite the fuel. According ...

Solid oxide fuel cells convert chemical fuels into electrical power. For more than a century, scientists have been working on techniques that provide better results and lower costs associated with ...

1.0 Introduction -- 1.1 What is a Fuel Cell? -- 1.1.1 Comparison with Batteries -- 1.1.2 Comparison with Heat Engine -- 1.2 Why Do We Need Fuel Cells? -- 1.2.1 Portable Sector -- 1.2.2 Transportation ...

Proton conductors have emerged as a pivotal component in the development of intermediate temperature fuel cells, offering a promising alternative to conventional high-temperature electrolytes. These ...

A collaborative research team has developed a proton conductor for fuel cells based on polystyrene phosphonic acids that maintain high protonic conductivity up to 200 C without water. A collaborative ...