MTI reveals prototype, amends distribution deal
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 75 KB
- Volume
- 2006
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1464-2859
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✦ Synopsis
Following the success of the first phase, Delphi and DOE will again partner in the second phase of the program -a three-year, $45m substantially cost-shared effort. Phase two will further reduce SOFC costs, increase the efficiency of small systems to 40%, and increase power density.
In other news, researchers from the Advanced Fuel Cell Group of the Office of Research and Development at DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory have begun verification testing of the second SECA phase one SOFC prototype that has been delivered to the lab.
The unit, developed by FuelCell Energy and Versa Power Systems, was started up during July using pipeline natural gas. The unit exports power to the grid to support NETL's on-site power needs, and so far it has been operated at a peak power of 3 kW. Researchers expect to operate the unit at a fixed power output for 1500 h to acquire performance and degradation data.