US Fuel Cell Council

US Department of Energy (USDOE) http //www.energy.gov/engine/contentdo US Fuel Cell Council (USFCC) http //www.usfcc.com/... 

Darnell Group Inc. 2003 Euel cells for portable power Markets, manufacture and cost. Revised final report (4) for Breakthrough Technologies and US Fuel Cell Council, submitted 13 January 2003, Corona, CA. 

The US Fuel Cell Council recently released a list of available fuel cell products from our membership. There were more than 40 products on the list - a powerful indication that more and more fuel cells will be making their way into the hands of mainline consumers. Finally, fuel cell producers have also begun making significant investments in manufacturing capabilities, another powerful leading indicator. 

FCHEA was formed when the US Fuel Cell Council (USFCC) merged with the National Hydrogen Association in October 2010. USFCC had been dedicated to fostering the commercialization of fuel cells in the USA. It aimed to provide technical advice, collect information and issue reports on the industry, raise public awareness of fuel cells and their potential, conduct fuel-cell education programs, provide networking opportunities for developers, suppHers, and potential... 

D. Brumbaugh, J. Guthrie, Literature Survey of Fuel Cell Contaminants, US Fuel Cell Council (ed.), 2004. 

US Fuel Cell Council Through its Codes Standards Working Group, their mission is to become aware of all Codes Standards activities, gather information from all possible sources, and provide... 

Table 2 reveals that few mathematical models were formulated, addressing only two degradation mechanisms, with even fewer able to predict an actual performance loss (some initial elements are provided, but most models are incomplete). This situation supports the proposal presented in the previous paragraph. More collaboration is also apparently needed between experimentalists and mathematical modelers considering that there is little overlap between these two groups. The US Fuel Cell Council can be cited again as an example fostering interaction between experimentalists and modelers (http //www.usfcc.com). 

The first commercial application for high volume MEA production will be for small portable electronics, which is driven by ever increasing power requirements and for longer duration energy sources. The US Fuel Cell Council, which has over 115 corporate members, has forecasted that the fuel cell market for small portable electronics will be 2 billion by 2011 with the potential of a 70% market penetration into the lithium ion battery market by 2007. To get a better understanding of this market size it is also forecasted that there will be 1.6 billion cell phone subscribers in 2007 worldwide, 76 million laptop shipments in 2007 and 37 million shipments of PDAs (personal digital assistants) in 2007. 

Of course, efficiency improvements to current internal combustion designs provide a partial fourth alternative, although there are physical limits. The US National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies finds efficiency improvements more promising than hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCVs) through about 2040. However, in combination with plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) the possibilities are striking. ... 

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