Ceramic Fuel Cell Limited

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (CFCL) and E.ON U.K. have agreed to develop a fuel cell combined heat and power (CHP) unit that can be fitted... 

Australia Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited was demonstrated a 5 kWe laboratory prototype fuel cell system in 1997. Their system has thin sheet steel components as interconnects in a planer fuel cell design. They are currently scaling up to a 25 kWe pre-commercial stack module. 

The Australian company Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (CFCL), a leader in planar SOFCs, is seeking to identify potential partners to create market-ready packages that would incorporate solid oxide fuel cells. 

Planar SOFC, in particular, monolithic designs (MHI) are capable of high (volumetric) power densities most favoured by direct and short current paths across the stack components. The PEN is principally square, rectangular and circular (Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (CFCL), Mitsubishi Materials Corp., SulzerHexis) in shape with active surface areas of 100-200 cm2 (15.5-31 in2). A drawback of this design is that it often necessitates the use of high temperature sealants for application at the in-... 

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (CFC Ltd.) (2006a). Combined Heat Power (micro-CHP) Domestic Demonstration Unit. Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited. 

Love, J., Amarasinghe, S., Selvey, D., Zheng, X., and Christiansen, L. (2009) Development of SOFC Stacks at Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited. ECS Trans., 25 (2), 115-124. 

Love J, Amarasinghe S, Selvey D, Zheng X, Christiansen L (2009) Development of SOFC stacks at ceramic fuel cells limited. In Singhal SC, Yokokawa H (eds) Solid oxide fuel cells XI-Part 1. ECS Trans 25(2) 115-124... 

In 1992, a company called Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (CFCL) was founded by a number of companies from the electrotechnical sector and other industries as well as certain government structures. It is the basic aim of this company to develop flat solid-oxide fuel cells for distributed power generation. Soon after its work beginning, this firm attained great success in SOFC development and became one of the world leaders in this area. About 80 persons work in this company. The funding volume from the private sector and from government subsidies attained a level of 60 million Australian dollars (Godfrey et al., 2000). 

Badwal S.P.S. and Foga- K. (1998) SOFC development at Ceramic Fuel Cell Limited. Proceedings of the Third European Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Forum, pp. 95-104. 

Ceramic fuel cells limited (CFCL) Australia, Asia Australia Solid oxide Residential 40 N/A N/A... 

As already mentioned in the previous section that the traditional LaCr03-based interconnect has difficulties such as machining, failure due to mechanical properties during cell operation, availability of matching sealants and the cost of chromium. Because of these limitations of ceramic interconnects, metal-based interconnects have been introduced in the anode supported thin film electrolyte structure which operates in the temperature range 700-800°C. The necessity to operate the ceramic fuel cell much below 1000°C (preferably below 750°C) has pushed the researchers to search for suitable metals or alloys. The metals have a number of advantages over ceramic interconnects. 

Finally, an additional approach to using hydrocarbon fuels with Ni-based anodes involves using methanol and ethanol, molecules that carry sufficient oxygen to avoid carbon formation.Unlike the case with low-temperature fuel cells, methanol crossover is not an issue with ceramic membranes. Since methanol decomposes very readily to CO and H2. SOFC can operate with a very high performance using this fuel. ° ° In addition, recent work has shown promising performance levels with limited carbon deposition using dimethyl ether as fuel. ° ° ... 

Solid-state electrochemistry is an important and rapidly developing scientific field that integrates many aspects of classical electrochemical science and engineering, materials science, solid-state chemistry and physics, heterogeneous catalysis, and other areas of physical chemistry. This field comprises - but is not limited to - the electrochemistry of solid materials, the thermodynamics and kinetics of electrochemical reactions involving at least one solid phase, and also the transport of ions and electrons in solids and interactions between solid, liquid and/or gaseous phases, whenever these processes are essentially determined by the properties of solids and are relevant to the electrochemical reactions. The range of applications includes many types of batteries and fuel cells, a variety of sensors and analytical appliances, electrochemical pumps and compressors, ceramic membranes with ionic or mixed ionic-electronic conductivity, solid-state electrolyzers and electrocatalytic reactors, the synthesis of new materials with improved properties and corrosion protection, supercapacitors, and electrochromic and memory devices. 

Molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs) use an electrolyte composed of a molten carbonate salt mixture suspended in a porous, chemically inert ceramic lithium aluminum oxide (I.iAIO,) matrix. MCFCs are large and operate at very high temperatures (1,200°F). Because they use a corrosive electrolyte, their durability is limited. 

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