Evaluation and performance of an unconventional AFC-design
- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)
Alkaline fuel cells, AFC, now play a Cinderella role after their successes in space. There are signs that the {open_quotes}CO{sub 2} syndrome{close_quotes} at last will have its cure. The argument that removal of CO{sub 2} from air and hydrogen should be so expensive that AFC has to be ruled out for terrestrial applications is no longer true. Its low stack cost will be the decisive feature. The AFC could easily be developed to a mature, industrial product for a large number of applications. We and a few other groups have tried to keep the AFC technology alive in a hostile climate, preparing for a rebirth as happened to its notorious rival the PEFC. We have concentrated our efforts on two designs characterized by external or internal manifolding. Both designs rely on an electrolyte chamber giving a constant pressure between the gas space and the electrolyte over the whole electrode surface. Hoechst has developed another cell design for the same purpose. We shall here describe the design of such a module with external manifolding.
- Research Organization:
- Fuel Cell Seminar Organizing Committee (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 460326
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961107-Absts.; ON: TI97001494; TRN: 97:001723-0179
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Fuel cell seminar, Kissimmee, FL (United States), 17-20 Nov 1996; Other Information: PBD: [1996]; Related Information: Is Part Of Fuel cells seminar; PB: 794 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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