Fuel cell developments in Japan

✍ Scribed by Noboru Itoh

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 450 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-7753
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-7753(90)80004-w

✦ Synopsis

Overview

Research to develop fuel cells in Japan was initiated by research institutions beginning about 1955 and is therefore backed by roughly 30 years of experience. In the years after 1965, the principal result of research was the commercialization of dissolved fuel type cells using methanol and other substances as the fuel for utilization for use as a compact power source in energizing radio relay stations and other systems. However, it was only during a short span of less than a decade that particularly significant progress was achieved in related research.

Central to research on these fuel cells is the Moonlight Project implemented in 1981 by the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). At about the same time, research conducted broadly by governmental and private sector research institutions, including the introduction