Chubu Electric

In Denmark, two seawater-cooled 400 MW units, operating at a steam inlet pressure of 28.5 MPa (4,135 psi), have an efficiency of about 48 percent. Chubu Electric, in Japan, has been oper-... 

Chubu Electric Power Hamaoka 1 (Hamaoka-cho, Shizuoka) 515 BWR... 

Chubu Electric Power Co. Inc., Kika-sekiyama, Midori-ku, Nagoya, 459 Japan... 

In addition to the research by J-Power and Mitsubishi Materials, NEDO is funding two mono-block layer built (MOLB) SOFC projects by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI). Together with Chubu Electric Power, MHI is developing a 200 kW co-generation system as well as a... 

A joint development between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Chubu Electric Power Company is the so called MOLB-Type (Mono-block Layer Built) planar SOFC. The cells are manufactured up to a size of 200 X 200 mm, based on a corrugated electrolyte. In this way the electrolyte also contains the gas channels, which simplifies the design of the interconnects, where plane ceramic plates are used (see Fig. 5). The biggest stack of this type was built of 40 layers, delivering 2.5 kW at 1000°C. 

The 4S design is being developed at TOSHIBA and CRIEPI in Japan. Chubu Electric Power Company supported the initial phase of some R D relevant to the 4S. 

MHI/Chubu Electric Japan 4kW 1997 Planar SOFC, laboratoiy stack testing, 7500 operating hours... 

Chubu Electric Power Electric Power Research 100 10/95 T4.1 (160Ah)... 

An evolution of the flat planar design is the monolithic SOFC (Fig. 10). This consists of corrugated thin cell components. The result is that the volumetric power density is very high. On the other hand, the structure is more complex to realize, as well as the manifold system compared to the flat planar one. Based on this configuration, the Japanese Chubu Electric Power Company, INC. (CEPCO) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries developed the so-called MOLB (Mono-block Layer Built) cells (Nakanishi et al. 2004). 

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