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Nature gave
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Fuel Cells - Inventions,
Research, Innovations, Breakthroughs
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Fuel Cells - Inventions, Research, Innovations,
Breakthroughs
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- Micro-Fuel Cell Technology for Handheld Electronic
Devices – Technology
News Daily, May 2006
- 'Cool' fuel cells could revolutionize Earth's energy
resources - Jul 2004 by University of Houston
- Pioneering fuel cell system provides power and hot water
in the home for the first time - switch-on completes successful research
project - Fuel
Cell Markets
- Pioneering Fuel Cell Technology Underlines Ceres Power’s
Receipt of Frost & Sullivan’s Excellence in Technology Award - Jul
2006 - Ceres Power is presented with the 2006 Frost & Sullivan
Excellence in Technology Award in the European micro combined heat and
power (CHP) market for developing a fuel cell technology that operates
at lower temperature ranges compared to conventional solid oxide fuel
cells. Read more from this Frost
& Sullivan report
- Milestone Achieved in the Development of Biological Fuel
Cells - April 2006 - NEWSWISE/Science News - A team of researchers at
the University of Oxford have developed an enzyme based biological fuel
cell that takes oxygen and hydrogen from an atmosphere to power
electrical devices. The enzymes used are isolated from naturally
occurring bacteria that have evolved to use hydrogen in their metabolic
process.Since the enzymes can be grown they represent a cheap and
renewable alternative to the expensive platinum based catalysts used by
others in hydrogen fuel cells. More from this
web page
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- Acta’s Breakthrough Fuel Cell Technology - Acta
announced that it has signed its first commercial sales and distribution
contract with Summit Medichem Ltd, Sumitomo Corporation’s Chemicals
Business Unit and subsidiary. Acta proprietary nanotechnology has enabled
it to develop a new, unique family of catalysts called HYPERMEC™
catalysts which breakdown the barriers to the commercialisation of the
fuel cells for mass market applications. HYPERMEC™ catalysts use low
cost materials, work at low temperatures, enable use of cheap, safe and
environmentally friendly fuels and thereby create the possibility of
mass-producing fuel cells. While HYPERMEC™ catalysts can function on
methanol and hydrogen, the two most common fuels currently used by the
fuel cell industry at present, fuel cells using Acta’s catalysts can
also run directly on ethanol, a safe, practical and widely distributed
fuel at room temperature, which platinum catalysed fuel cells cannot,
according to this
corporate press release.
- Scientists make 'amazing' fuel cell breakthrough -
August 2006 - A team of Korean scientists has developed a new method of
storing hydrogen as a solid, easing potential complications associated
with the commercialisation of fuel cell technology. The researchers from
Seoul University's School of Physics and Astronomy have pioneered a
technique that binds hydrogen using titanium into a stable solid that
can be stored at low pressure and relatively high temperatures. Read
more from this Platinum
Today web page
- ZAP unveils hydrogen fuel cell breakthrough - Aug 2004 -
Advanced automotive technology company ZAP announced a breakthrough
electric propulsion system that uses a new hydrogen fuel cell and
lead-cobalt battery design developed by Apollo Energy Systems. Apollo
has developed and patented an Alkaline Fuel Cell, an improved version of
the early Alkaline Fuel Cells used by NASA in the Apollo Moon Mission;
these have a higher voltage, higher efficiency, and greater reliability
than other types of fuel cells. Apollo has also patented a Tri-Polar
Lead-Cobalt battery to be used with the Apollo Fuel Cell. The battery is
made with Lead-Foam electrodes making it lighter than ordinary lead-acid
batteries with a higher voltage as well as greater energy and power
density. Read more from this press release at Zap
World
- True breakthrough in advanced micro fuel cell technology
for handheld devices - MTI MicroFuel Cells Inc., the leading developer
of miniaturized fuel cells suitable for handheld electronic devices
demonstrated the world's first handheld entertainment system and
PDA/smartphone powered by an integrated fuel cell. The MTI Micro´s
Mobion™ is based on patented direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC)
technology, and could ultimately enable it to power portable devices 2
to 10 times longer than an equivalent size battery pack, while allowing
for instant, cord-free re-charging. Read more from this Physorg blog entry,
Jun 2004
- Breakthrough design in fuel cell technology - Vary the
flow of hydrogen fuel to control the power generated - A simple control
mechanism, which varies the flow of hydrogen fuel to control the power
generated could be a breakthrough in fuel cell technology. The secret is
a system in which the fuel input itself changes the size of the reaction
chamber, and therefore the amount of power produced. For example, an
increased flow of hydrogen into the chamber pushes more water out of the
system, lowering the water level and increasing the space available for
the reaction to take place, and the reverse for a decreased flow of
hydrogen. The water at the bottom of the chamber also serves to maintain
the needed humidity for the fuel cell reaction to take place. This
patented "auto-humidifying" design solves a problem present in
most fuel cell designs. More from this What
Next Network article - Jan 2007
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