Industry funds global climate and energy project at Stanford

• Book ID: 104434401
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 20 KB
• Volume: 2003
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-2859
• DOI: 10.1016/s1464-2859(03)00130-5

✦ Synopsis

Alloy construction offers other advantages: a stable, high-performance cathode can be operated at 600-800°C; efficiency losses due to current collection are minimized; and the alloy increases the fuel cell's strength as well as its electronic and thermal conductivity.

Roughly one-third of a fuel cell system's cost rests in the stack, with the remainder in balanceof-plant and power electronics. This means the stack cannot exceed $130/kW if the entire unit is to meet the $400/kW target. 'The low cost of a metal-based SOFC's raw materials, and its design flexibility, should allow a stack to be manufactured below the $130 fuel cell target,' says Visco.