This title appears in the Scientific Report :
2005
Please use the identifier:
http://hdl.handle.net/2128/542 in citations.
IWV-3 Report 2005 : Future as a challenge
IWV-3 Report 2005 : Future as a challenge
Fuel cells can generate electric current in a wide power range with extremely low pollutant emissions and high efffficiency. In conjunction with advantageous technical features such as modularity, low-noise operation, favourable behaviour at partial load and potentially long service life they are th...
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Personal Name(s): | Unknown |
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Contributing Institute: |
Energieverfahrenstechnik; IWV-3 |
Imprint: |
Jülich
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag
2005
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Physical Description: |
III, 113 S. |
ISBN: |
3-89336-405-6 |
Document Type: |
Book |
Research Program: |
Brennstoffzelle |
Series Title: |
Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich. Reihe Energietechnik / Energy Technology
42 |
Link: |
OpenAccess |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
Fuel cells can generate electric current in a wide power range with extremely low pollutant emissions and high efffficiency. In conjunction with advantageous technical features such as modularity, low-noise operation, favourable behaviour at partial load and potentially long service life they are therefore an important element of our future energy economy. The close coupling to hydrogen as the energy carrier is of special economic and political relevance and, in addition to other driving boundary ry conditions, has internationally lead to intensive development activities in recent years. Research and development for fuel cells are an interdisciplinary task, which in its entirety can only be accomplished with diversiffied expertise from the natural and engineering sciences and from application technologies in combination with an adequate infrastructure. It is therefore a typical topic of large-scale research that has been taken up by Research Centre Jülich in close cooperation with universities and other research institutes. The tasks range from the development of materials and single components through the assembly of complete fuel cell stacks up to complex application systems. Important task ffields are also suitable manufacturing techniques for technical fabrication and the generation of gases suitable for fuel cells from relevant energy carriers. Research Centre Jülich concentrates its R&D activities on the solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), the low-temperature polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC) and the direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC). Solutions are to be found for a technically reliable and economically competitive use of fuel cells, which in that depth cannot be provided by industryry, and contributions to next-generation technologies still far from market maturity are to be made. The innovation potential results from the development of new materials and new possibilities of basic modelling, technology-based systems analysis, experimental veriffication and demonstration in technical systems. The latttter tools are being applied as an integrated work approach at the Institute for Materials and Processes in Energy Systems (IWV-3). The present report wants to provide an insight into the diversiffied aspects of scientific and technical work at IWV-3. Examples of success demonstrate the implementation of the claim to provide top-class results of social, ecological and economic relevance in an international comparison. The Institute contributes to education and further training in cooperation with universities, universities of applied sciences and training workshops. The description of the fields of activity and of relevant work results illustrates the connection of basic research with technical development work in priority topics. It thus becomes apparent that the Institute's scientific and technical work is oriented to the transformation of research results into innovative products, methods and processes. The presentation of selected R&D projects documents the signifficance and the role of international cooperations with partners from research and industry. Explanations concerning priority activities and the work approach as well as the allocation of special departments, competence fields and R&D goals will round off the report. |