Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation and RWE have announced that the world’s longest operating high temperature fuel cell power system, the 100 kW solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) co-generation system, ...

Why do the most efficient fuel cells have to operate at such high temperatures? This limitation has long hampered the development of clean electricity sources, limiting their large-scale adoption ...

Engineers at the University of Utah have developed and built the very first fuel cell using jet fuel that operates at room-temperature without the need to ignite the fuel. Using enzymes to help ...

Volkswagen has taken a step further in the fuel cell technology stakes with the development of a high temperature fuel cell. Almost all current fuel cell technology is the low temperature kind, whose ...

(Top) Schematic diagram of a PC-SOFC; (Bottom left) Arrhenius plot and activation energy of BCPY thin film on the anode side; and (Bottom right) Conductivity of BCPY thin films as a function of oxygen ...

Solid oxide fuel cells convert chemical fuels into electrical power. For more than a century, scientists have been working on techniques that provide better results and lower costs associated with ...

Engineers from the University of Utah have developed a special type of fuel cell that’s able to convert jet fuel into electricity at room temperature, without the needing to ignite the fuel. According ...

Proton conductors have emerged as a pivotal component in the development of intermediate temperature fuel cells, offering a promising alternative to conventional high-temperature electrolytes. These ...

A collaborative research team has developed a proton conductor for fuel cells based on polystyrene phosphonic acids that maintain high protonic conductivity up to 200 C without water. A collaborative ...