North American fuel cell revenues up, no profits

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 71 KB
• Volume: 2003
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-2859
• DOI: 10.1016/s1464-2859(03)01121-0

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electrodes and microfluidics for handling fuel and oxidant. The two-year, $6.6m project (with $2m from ATP) will use MEMS technology to direct and control the flow of streams of fuel, oxidant and electrolyte as they circulate among the catalyst-coated, porous-silicon electrodes.

NY-based Plug Power has been awarded $1.9m towards a two-year, $3.8m project to develop four technologies -a power-control system using digital signal processing, a carbon nanotube hybrid electrode for superior stack performance, hydrogen pumping to cope with sporadic high power demands, and electroimpedance spectroscopy for humidity management -to reduce the cost of fuel cell power to a grid-competitive level. The Albany Nanotechnology Institute at the State University of New York will develop nanotube electrode material as part of this project.

And PolyFuel in California proposes to develop a new gas diffusion layer material and a low-cost, high-speed manufacturing processusing printing industry hardware -to modify its three-layer, catalyst-coated membrane structure into a five-layer MEA for performance-and costcompetitive DMFCs. Subcontractors in the $2.8m, two-year project ($2m from ATP) include