molten carbonate fuel cell

Research has been performed indicating that molten carbonate fuel cells could be fueled by landfill gas.

Molten carbonate fuel cells require less purity than typical fuel cells, but still require extensive treatment.

Lithium titanate is used as a cathode in layer one of a double layer cathode for molten carbonate fuel cells.

Molten carbonate fuel cells can reach efficiencies approaching 60%, considerably higher than the 37-42% efficiencies of a phosphoric acid fuel cell plant.

This month, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, the northern California utility, started up the first complete power plant based on a molten carbonate fuel cell.

The third one is based on the Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell (MCFC) concept.

These fuel cells have two material layers, layer 1 and layer 2, which allow for the production of high power molten carbonate fuel cells that work more efficiently.

At one point, Vindicator was under evaluation to be a test ship for a Marine Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Demonstration Module.

While the San Ramon pilot plant has proved that molten carbonate fuel cells can produce energy, it must still prove they can do so for the long term at a reasonable cost.

Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell (MCFC): A type of fuel cell that contains a molten carbonate electrolyte.

Other historically successful combined cycles have used hot cycles with mercury vapor turbines, magnetohydrodynamic generators or molten carbonate fuel cells, with steam plants for the low temperature "bottoming" cycle.

The company manufactures diesel engines for trains, ships, oil and gas installations, military vehicles, agriculture, mining and construction equipment, as well as diesel generators and very new Molten carbonate fuel cells.

The separation of acid gases (HCl, HF, and SO), VOC oxidation (HS removal) and siloxane removal are required for molten carbonate fuel cells.

Molten carbonate fuel cells are not prone to poisoning by carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide - they can even use carbon oxides as fuel - making them more attractive for fueling with gases made from coal.

Molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs) are currently being developed for natural gas, biogas (produced as a result of anaerobic digestion or biomass gasification), and coal-based power plants for electrical utility, industrial, and military applications.

Lithium aluminate also finds its use as an inert electrolyte support material in molten carbonate fuel cells, where the electrolyte may be a mixture of lithium carbonate, potassium carbonate, and sodium carbonate.

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) and molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFC) do not have this problem, but operate at higher temperatures, slowing start-up time, and requiring costly materials and bulky insulation.

MHD generators are technically practical for fossil fuels, but have been overtaken by other, less expensive technologies, such as combined cycles in which a gas turbine's or molten carbonate fuel cell's exhaust heats steam to power a steam turbine.

High-temperature fuel cells, including molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFC's) and solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC's), do not use platinum as catalysts, but instead use cheaper materials such as nickel and nickel oxide.

"We don't know of anything that can be as efficient or generate so little emissions" as the molten carbonate fuel cell, said Edward A. Gillis, manager of the fuel cell program at the Electrical Power Research Institute in Menlo Park, Calif.

While these efficiencies are not approached in most real world applications, high temperature fuel cells (solid oxide fuel cells or molten carbonate fuel cells) can theoretically be combined with gas turbines to allow stationary fuel cells to come closer to the theoretical limit.