Posted on 06/05/2008 2:15:53 PM PDT by #1CTYankee
SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn., June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has chosen UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX - News) company, to lead a technology development team as part of DOE's Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance Program (SECA).
The two-year project, valued at more than $22 million, is among the largest DOE projects ever awarded to UTC Power.
DOE's Office of Fossil Energy established SECA in 2000 to conduct research and develop low-cost, modular fuel-flexible solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems by 2010. The SECA program's overall objective is to design a megawatt-class, near-zero emission fuel cell system fueled by gasified coal.
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Or plenty.
Well you take your coal and add a fair amount of Mexican food and thats your gasified coal
check out:
www.clean-energy.us/success/puertollano.htm
We can probably someone to eat coal, but Mexican food?
Maybe we finally found a use for the illegals!
Fuel cells are much more efficient. (and expensive)
You take coal, Add heat and steam, out comes CO and hydrgen, together they are gassified coal otherwise known as syngas.
It can be turned directly to electricity in a fuel cell about 4 times more efficiently.
It can also be used to produce anything that comes from petroleum.
Gassified coal is our friend.
You take coal, Add heat and steam, out comes CO and hydrgen, together they are gassified coal otherwise known as syngas.
It can be turned directly to electricity in a fuel cell about 4 times more efficiently.
It can also be used to produce anything that comes from petroleum.
Gassified coal is our friend.
It can be turned directly to electricity in a fuel cell about 4 times more efficiently.
It can also be used to produce anything that comes from petroleum.
Gassified coal is our friend.
Cool.
I read UTC Power has been working on this for ten years, the problem is the company is essentially a R&D, limited production outfit.
Costs were prohibitive based on fossil fuel costs, that may be about to change.
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Related subject:
http://www.marriott.com/news/detail.mi?marrArticle=321544
There are three commercial sized units operating now. The company I used to work for spent a lot of money on a study to put one of these units in beside our 1 million ton/year coke units. This was 1995-96 and we couldn’t make it pay. With raising values for products and the expectation that prices will remain high, I expect to see a half dozen of these built in the next ten years.
Was this a fuel cell?
No. It was a very large gasification unit that was to run on petroleum coke. The refinery cokers produced slightly over 1 million tons of coke per year.
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