Nanosys, Sharp expand fuel cell collaboration

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 75 KB
• Volume: 2007
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-2859
• DOI: 10.1016/s1464-2859(07)70432-7

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10 addition to saving the average homeowner hundreds of euros a year, the unit can meter excess electricity back to the grid, and in the long term, could be connected to a system using solar or wind energy, to create a hybrid unit.

Acumentrics' CHP units have passed initial qualification in Japan as safe for home cogeneration use, and safety testing has begun at the US National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST). Additional units are scheduled to be provided to a university in Italy for field evaluation. MTS will use its experience in heating and water-heating domestic products to incorporate the CHP system into a wall-hung boiler of a size suitable for the European market.

The Acumentrics-MTS collaboration to jointly develop SOFC-based CHP appliances for the European heating market was announced two years ago [FCB, October 2005], as a threeto-four year development, testing and commercial ization process.