Selected Fuel Cell Companies

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Description. DaimlerChrysler, headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, has been pioneering fuel ceU technology development decisively since 1994, when it began a program to develop methanol fuel cells for its own use. In fact, DaimlerChrysler and Toyota have already built prototype fuel cell vehicles that cleanly and efficiently reform liquid methanol to gaseous hydrogen on board their cars.  

Company Name Contact Phone Number Website 

Energy Conversion Devices Ovonics Ghazaleh Koefod (248) 293-0440 

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The last section (19.6) is focused on the commercial potential and perspectives of using metal ammines in connection with, for example, polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) and solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) as well as selective catalytic reduction (SCR)-DeNO c (NO c removal) in the transport sector, and it includes comments on the global availability and low cost of the carrier salts. This section also provides the authors perspectives on future trends and challenges in metal ammine research, along with links to the interested reader for further information on key articles, companies and websites. 

A hydrogen fuel cell known as a mono-skeleton catalyst (MSK) has demonstrated optimum cell performance. The cell was designed and developed by Brown, Bovary and Company of Switzerland around 1959. Swiss scientists have selected the best materials and technology for electrodes. The metal electrodes were selected to obtain an adequate storage capacity in case the cells were subjected to overloading for a long time. The materials selected for the electrodes offered optimum electrochemical properties. 

A key element of the automotive fuel cell membrane electrode assembly is the proton exchange membrane (PEM), also referred to as the polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM), which is composed of a thermoplastic elastomer coated with a platinum catalyst. U.S. car-makers expect to have fuel cell-powered cars on the market by 2004. Polymer selection depends on, among other criteria, fuel selection such as Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC) or Direct Hydrogen Fuel Cell (DHFC). One prototype fuel cell vehicle is the product of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV), comprising U.S. automotive companies and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). ... 

A good AEM should fulfill stringent mechanical, thermal, and chemical properties as mentioned in Section 11.2. Historically, the first AEM material was developed by researchers from the Toknyama Soda Company. They introduced quaternary ammonium groups to the divinylbenzene-cross-linked polychloropropene polymer matrix via trimethylamine. Since then, several membrane-associated companies explored various kinds of AEMs and pushed them to commercial market most of them were based on cross-linked polystyrene, polyvinyl alcohol, low (or high)-density polyethylene, and other aliphatic polymers through irradiation-grafting method. The primary objective of developing these materials was for applications in the fields such as electrodialysis, desalination, selective electrode, and waste acid recovery. However, they showed performance in AEM fuel cells far below practical... 

IFC has been marketing the PC25, a 200 kW atmospheric PAFC unit, since 1992. Details of this commercial cycle are proprietary and not available for publication. In order to discuss an example PAFC cycle, a pressurized (8 atm) 12 MW system will be presented (50). This cycle is very similar to the 11 MW IFC PAFC cycle that went into operation in 1991 in the Tokyo Electric Power Company system at the Goi Thermal Station, except that two performance enhancements have been incorporated. Limited data are available regarding the Goi power plant. However, it is understood that the average cell voltage is 750 mV and the fuel utilization is 80% (51). The enhanced 12 MW cycle presented here utilizes values of 760 mV and 86%. This enhanced cycle (Figure 9-8) is discussed below with selected gas compositions presented in Table 9-6. 

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