Sentences with phrase «solid oxide»

Bloom Energy's breakthrough solid oxide fuel cell technology generates clean, highly - efficient energy onsite from alternative energy sources.

The biggest areas of focus for this funding were hydrogen production and solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology.

The solid oxide fuel cell under the coals then converts carbon and hydrogen into electricity, and is described as a sort of reverse photosynthesis:

Natural gas - reforming solid oxide fuel cells will soon be assembled in a former Chrysler plant, located in Newark DE.

PNNL researchers are developing cost - effective materials, such as coated stainless steel interconnects, and fabrication techniques for components in solid oxide fuel cell stacks.

«Essentially, the electrolytic cell consists of a solid oxide electrolyte with conducting electrodes deposited on either side of the electrolyte.

The new projects were selected under funding opportunity announcement DE-FOA-000 1735, Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Prototype System Testing and Core Technology... Read more →

FuelCell Energy, Inc. is developing a solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) system to convert excess electricity during periods of low power demand into hydrogen efficiently.

The US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 16 projects to receive $ 10.2 million in funding to advance solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology.

For long high speed trips the engine would be at full power max efficiency with exhaust capable of heating solid oxide electrolyser cell producing h2 and O per electric and water.

Solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) has the potential to be cost - effective, environmentally friendly, and highly efficient for the production of hydrogen from water.

When power is needed, the hydrogen is cleanly and efficiently converted back into power using the same solid oxide system in fuel cell power generation mode.

The DOE contract continues the development of the solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology for hydrogen production using electrolysis through a solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC).

Penn, for example, is developing solid oxide fuel cells as a more efficient alternative to hydrogen fuel cells.

Cummins, Inc. will develop and demonstrate a highly efficient and clean diesel engine, an advanced waste heat recovery system, an aerodynamic Peterbilt tractor and trailer combination, and a solid oxide fuel cell auxiliary power unit to reduce engine idling.

The main hardware in the existing research infrastructure at IFE Hynor is found in a process room for testing and development of high temperature hydrogen production and solid oxide fuel cell technology (SOFC), including a Dual Bubbling Fluidized Bed reactor prototype (DBFB) for continuous hydrogen production by sorption - enhanced reforming (SER) of methane with an integrated process for CO2 - capture.

He is known for his contributions to the development and deployment of solid oxide fuel cells and superplastic forming of aluminum alloys.

Characterization and Accelerated Life Testing of a New Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell, Scott Barnett, Northwestern University

She received her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder and did her Ph.D. work at Colorado School of Mines focusing on in - depth experimental and modeling studies on high temperature pyrolysis of hydrocarbons and the effects of temperature and fuel structure on conversion, hydrogen production, reactivity, and deposit formation under solid oxide fuel cell operating conditions.

These include complex oxides used in water and carbon dioxide gas splitting, solid oxide fuel cell cathodes, lithium ion batteries, and super ionic conductors.

Thin - Film, Metal - Supported High - Performance and Durable Proton - Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Cell, Tianli Zhu, United Technologies Research Center

Rashkeev, S., and Glazoff, M., «Control of Oxygen Delamination in Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Cells via Modifying Operational Regime,» Applied Physics Letters, Vol.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University researchers have determined a key step in improving solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), a promising clean energy technology that has struggled to gain wide acceptance in the marketplace.

Thermal energy in the temperature range of 600 ° — 800 °C is necessary for high - temperature electrolysis process using solid oxide electrolytic cell (SOEC) and hybrid solar thermochemical hydrogen (STCH) production.

Using advanced computational methods, UW — Madison materials scientists have discovered new materials that could bring widespread commercial use of solid oxide fuel cells closer to reality.

A process of solid oxide electrolysis splits the air into oxygen and waste carbon monoxide gas, which can be dumped back into the atmosphere.

The strong spin - phonon coupling may be caused by the outermost orbitals of osmium atoms as they are greatly extended outward in space, in the solid oxide.

That gas would have escaped through the facility's filters and solidified in the cool outside air, he says, turning into small solid oxide particles that could have wafted across Europe.

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), based on an oxide ion conducting electrolyte, have several advantages over other types of fuel cells, including relatively inexpensive material costs, low sensitivity to impurities in the fuel, and high overall efficiency.

That's been a high hurdle for devices called solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) that convert fuels — such as methane and hydrogen — directly to electricity without burning them.

Prof. Choi and his Ph.D. student Kun Joong Kim have developed a miniaturized solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) to replace lithium - ion batteries in smartphones, laptops, drones, and other small electronic devices.

«Compared to any other device that converts chemical energy into electricity, the fuel cell, and in particular the solid oxide or ceramic fuel cell, is hands down the most efficient,» says veteran fuel cell researcher Eric Wachsman, director of the University of Maryland Energy Research Center, who published research pointing the way to lower temperature SOFCs on November 18 in Science.

«Unlike other fuel cells which transport positively charged [hydrogen, or H +,] ions through a membrane, solid oxide types use a ceramic oxide — through which negatively charged oxygen ions pass,» Stokes explains.

In general, the system consists of two electrodes sandwiching a solid oxide or ceramic membrane (or electrolyte).

This figure shows the crystal structure of Sc - doped BaZrO3 to be used as an electrolyte material in intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells (IT - SOFCs).

Two - way fuel cells Meanwhile, Versa, a solid oxide fuel cell stack supplier, is working with Boeing and «a large European company» on an innovative reversible SOFC that cycles back and forth between providing power and electrolyzing water into hydrogen and oxygen, Stokes says.

Another class, the solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) that power backup generators for hospitals and other buildings, typically run at 1000 °C.

Solid oxide fuel cells that can use conventional fossil fuels as well as hydrogen are set to take a larger role in the energy game

Not exact matches

By employing state - of - art materials design methods, Dr. Binghai Yan and his collaborators from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany have recently predicted that the oxide compound BaBiO3 combines two required properties, i.e., topological insulator and superconductivity.

It then combines with pollutants from combustion — mainly nitrogen oxides and sulfates from vehicles, power plants and industrial processes — to create tiny solid particles, or aerosols, no more than 2.5 micrometers across, about 1/30 the width of a human hair.

The pollution is generally a mixture of gases — such as carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — and particulate matter, microscopic solids or droplets that can be inhaled into the lungs.

«In solid - state materials like copper oxides, there are many different effects and impurities that make these materials difficult to study.

«We added the yttrium oxide to the diamond with a technique known as electron beam evaporation, which involves using a beam of electrons to transform molecules of yttrium oxide from the solid state to the gaseous state so that they can be made to cover a surface and solidify on it.»

And as a basis for gas sensors in particular, carbon nanotubes combine advantages (and avoid shortcomings) of more established materials, such as polymer - based organic electronics and solid - state metal - oxide semiconductors.

Physicists of the Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics (PDI) have now drastically increased the yield of gallium oxide with a catalytic effect observed for the first time during crystal growth.

The explosive force occurs when solid ammonium nitrate decomposes very rapidly into two gases, nitrous oxide and water vapor.

In this case, the solid material was a copper oxide, a member of the transition - metal oxide family of materials, which have wide - ranging applications for their electronic, magnetic and catalytic properties.

But such solid - oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) can efficiently combine everyday fossil - fuel natural gas with oxygen from the air — without burning — to generate electricity on a small scale.

Many solid - oxide fuel cells, including the Bloom Box, operate at 1,250 to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit.

Once in the solid phase, there's no danger of reacting and precipitating metal oxide or hydroxide in an uncontrolled way.»