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, ...

Why do the most efficient fuel cells have to operate at such high temperatures? This limitation has long hampered the development of clean electricity sources, limiting their large-scale adoption ...

Roller coaster gas prices and rising energy costs for the home have created uneasiness about the future of our fossil-fuel based economy. One near-term solution being pursued by researchers at the ...

(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 ...

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 ...

The structure of the palladium catalyst for hydrogen oxidation in proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells has been revealed by scientists. Contrary to current views the results, obtained by applying ...

Researchers at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida have developed a novel solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) capable of achieving ~20 kW/liter power density at ...

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 ...