Transportation Industry
Delphi Hits Milestone For Flexible Fuel Cell
Transport Topics, July, 2006 by Anonymous
Delphi Corp., Troy, Mich., said it has reached a milestone in a joint effort to bring a fuel-flexible solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) to market by 2011.
Working with the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy, Delphi completed the phase one test in April, and received DOE validation in May.
According to Delphi, the prototype system produced peak power of 4.24 kW from methane, the primary constituent of natural gas; reached peak efficiency of 37%; and matched the durability goal with power degradation of just 7% over 1,500 hours of operation.
Also, at an estimated $770 per kilowatt, the unit met the phase one goal for factory cost, assuming volume production.
The Department of Energy has identified SOFC as one of the more promising ways to generate electr...
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