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Advanced Fuel Cell Technology April 2012
Apple plans to power this Maiden, North Carolina, data center with
biogas.
The company made the disclosure in a March regulatory
filing with the North Carolina Utilities Commission. First
reported by Greensboro News & Record, the filing offers
a few more technical details on the 4.8MW facility, which
will be comprised of 24-200kW fuel cell systems that will
“sit on a common concrete pad out of doors.” Each system
will have six power-generating modules, Apple says.
The fuel cells use methane – in this case, produced
by animal waste – and convert that to electricity. Apple’s
installation will be built by California’s Bloom Energy, and
it will be the largest such fuel cell installation built outside
of the utility industry.
The first of Apple’s fuel cells could be online as early
as June, and Apple expects to have the whole facility up
and running by the end of November.
Air Products and FuelCell Energy Sign MoU
Air Products of Allentown, Pennsylvania, has signed
a memorandum of understanding to work toward the
market development of stationary Direct FuelCell® power
plants that simultaneously produce hydrogen, ultra-clean
electricity and usable high quality heat. Target markets
for these tri-generation stationary fuel cell power plants
include industrial hydrogen users as well as vehicle fueling
applications.
The initiative seeks to develop a market for trigeneration
megawatt-class power plants around the world.
Industrial users of hydrogen can utilize all three of the DFC
revenue streams including hydrogen, electricity and heat.
On-site or local production of hydrogen and electricity
eliminates the delivery costs incurred by industrial
companies while enhancing security and reliability of
supply.
Air Products and FuelCell Energy of Danbury,
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Connecticut, are collaborating on a three-year hydrogen
production project in California, which began in 2011.
Grant Helps 3M Build Cheaper Hydrogen Fuel Cells
St. Paul, Minnesota-based 3M has received a $3 million
grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to find ways to
make hydrogen fuel cells cheaper. The grant will allow
3M’s Eric Funkenbusch and his team of researchers to work
with partners, including General Motors, to try to increase
the efficiency and durability of hydrogen fuel cells to make
them less costly over the next three years.
“The goal of the work really is to get the amount of
platinum that’s required for a fuel cell vehicle to be equal
to what’s currently required for a catalytic converter in an
internal combustion vehicle,” Funkenbusch says.
Making a more efficient fuel cell is only one challenge
to the adoption of hydrogen-powered cars. Hydrogenfueling
stations also need to be available. “Actually the
fueling operation would not be very much different from
how you fuel a gasoline vehicle,” Funkenbusch says. “It
would take three to five minutes and you could be on
your way again with essentially the range of an internal
combustion engine vehicle.”
Furukawa Commercializes Salt-Water Fuel Cells
Furukawa Battery, a Japanese developer of alternative
energy power systems, has begun commercializing its new
magnesium fuel cell technologies. The magnesium fuel cell
differs from its conventional counterparts in that it does
not use platinum to power chemical conversions. Instead,
the fuel cell uses salt water as an electrolyte, enabling
Furukawa to keep costs of manufacturing the energy system
relatively low.
Using magnesium as an electrolyte, Furukawa Battery
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