Fuel cells: performance, efficiency and decline rates?
…leader in solid oxide fuel cells), and c20% is in Connecticut (home to Fuel Cell Energy, making solid oxide and molten carbonate fuel cells). How are today’s fuel cells powered?…
Bloom Energy: solid oxide fuel cell technology?
…include Lanthanum, Yttrium, Cerium, Ytterbium, Samarium and Gadolinium. What degradation rates for fuel cells? The other key challenge for fuel cells is longevity. We have tracked 160 historical fuel cell…
Electrochemistry: battery voltage and the Nernst Equation?
What determines the Voltage of an electrochemical cell, such as a lithium ion battery, redox flow battery, a hydrogen fuel cell, an electrolyser or an electrowinning plant? This note explains…
Fuel Cell Patents: twenty years of progress?
…in upon Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells, tabulating 120 patents into this reactor design, including descriptions of each patent and a categorization by company. An overview of different fuel cell types…
Proton exchange membrane fuel cells: what challenges?
…and the economics of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (2x most costly than conventional vehicles per km, note here) and hydrogen fuel cells for power generation (10x more costly, note here)….
The green hydrogen economy: a summary?
…fuel cells saw 222 in 2019 and are declining at a -10% CADR. Hydrogen trucks and fuelling stations saw c300 patents in 2019 which is flat on 2013. https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/energy-transition-technologies-the-pace-of-progress/ The…
Fuel Cell Power Project Economics
This data-file models the economics of constructing a new fuel-cell power plant; generating electricity from grey, blue or green hydrogen in a PEMFC, or from natural gas in an SOFC….
Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells: CCS plus Power? The Economics?
Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells could be extremely promising, generating electrical power from natural gas as an input, while also capturing CO2 from industrial flue gases through an electrochemical process. We…
Solid oxide fuel cells: what challenges?
This data-file reviews fifty patents into solid oxide fuel cells, filed by leading companies in the space in 2020, in order to understand the key challenges the industry is striving…
Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells: capture carbon, generate electricity?
Molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs) could be a game-changer for CCS, and fossil fuels. They are electrochemical reactors with the unique capability to capture CO2 from the exhaust pipes of…