Astris launches alkaline generator, begins stack pilot production
- Book ID
- 104434832
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 71 KB
- Volume
- 2004
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1464-2859
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✦ Synopsis
near-series product which is due to come on the market at the end of 2004 or beginning of 2005.
The DVFG, headquartered in Berlin, counts among its members liquefied gas suppliers and companies interested in liquefied gas supply. It develops and implements safety standards, maintains contacts with ministries and other associations, and informs the public about liquefied gas as an energy carrier with a wide range of applications. Liquefied gas has one of the lowest pollution rates of all energy carriers, requiring no pipelines or cables.
In Germany, a close-meshed distribution network assures the supply of 400 000 single-and double-family homes with liquefied gas for heating and hot water. With its knowledge of the market and systems technology experience, the DVFG wants to support the development of a Sulzer Hexis fuel cell system for liquefied gas.
Sulzer Hexis is developing, manufacturing and distributing 1 kWe solid oxide fuel cell systems to cover all the heat requirements and basic electricity needs of a typical central European single-family home. SOFCs feature relatively simple fuel processing, which offers a certain degree of flexibility in the fuel choice. Apart from its main focus on natural gas, Sulzer Hexis is testing other fuels for use in its fuel cell system, now including liquefied gas with the DVFG.