CFCL launches SOFC generator, signs up EWE for German field trial
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 76 KB
- Volume
- 2005
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1464-2859
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✦ Synopsis
August 2005
Fuel Cells Bulletin 9 in France, and three industrial partners: the engineering and prototyping contractor ESORO, systems integrator RUAG Aerospace and concept developer Tribecraft. About 20 ETH students worked on the project, mostly from the Department of Mechanical & Process Engineering. The two drivers, both women, are also students at ETH Zürich.
The whole fuel cell system (including control and power electronics) was designed at ETH Zürich. The 900 We PEM fuel cell, a by-product of the PowerPac project, benefits from an embedded self-humidifying area specially designed by PSI researchers, as well as newly developed membranes and custom-made endplates. The stack efficiency is exceptionally high, at close to 70%; the stack itself weighs just 4 kg.