News tagged with solid fuel
New small solid oxide fuel cell reaches record efficiency
Individual homes and entire neighborhoods could be powered with a new, small-scale solid oxide fuel cell system that achieves up to 57 percent efficiency, significantly higher than the 30 to 50 percent efficiencies ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 31, 2012 |
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New European rocket lifts off on maiden flight
Europe on Monday successfully launched a new lightweight rocket carrying a test payload, culminating a more than 12-year quest to master the entire range of space launchers.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 13, 2012 |
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Team models ionic conductivity in doped ceria for use as a fuel cell electrolyte
(PhysOrg.com) -- Optimizing the conductivity of ceria based oxides, or doped ceria, is crucial to their use as electrolytes in future solid oxide fuel cells.
Jan 12, 2012 |
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First elucidation of cause of long-term stability deterioration in solid oxide fuel cells
NIMS and the University of Queensland Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, the Dalian Polytechnic University, and the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, clarified for the ...
Nov 24, 2011 |
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Want fuel cells? Think outside the hydrogen tank
(PhysOrg.com) -- When most people hear the words "fuel cell," they think of eco-friendly, hydrogen-powered cars that emit nothing more than water.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 18, 2011 |
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UMaine researchers discover revolutionary process for biofuel
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have long been interested in waste products as sources of biofuel. In Maine, those waste items could include treetops and limbs deemed by the forest products industry as unusable and often left ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Future NASA rocket to be most powerful ever built (Update)
To soar far away from Earth and even beyond the moon, NASA has dreamed up the world's most powerful rocket, a behemoth that borrows from the workhorse liquid rockets that sent Apollo missions into space four ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Self-cleaning anodes could facilitate cost-effective coal-powered fuel cells
Using barium oxide nanoparticles, researchers have developed a self-cleaning technique that could allow solid oxide fuel cells to be powered directly by coal gas at operating temperatures as low as 750 degrees Celsius. The ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 21, 2011 |
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The goal? Cooler, smaller, fuel cells
Fuel cells that use hydrogen or methane to generate electricity in chemical reactions while shedding only harmless byproducts like water are dream products for engineers, environmentalists and business leaders searching for ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 10, 2011 |
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Dutch researchers identify huge potential of nanocrystals in fuel cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- The addition of extremely small crystals to solid electrolyte material has the potential to considerably raise the efficiency of fuel cells. Researchers at TU Delft were the first to document ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Image: Endeavour on the Pad
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bathed in xenon lights, space shuttle Endeavour, attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters, took one last journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A at ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 11, 2011 |
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Soft landing metal-based molecules create active, easy-to-separate catalyst
A vanadium-based catalyst's effectiveness in acidic liquids can be mimicked on a solid, less-toxic surface, thanks to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Purdue University, and National Dong ...
Jan 27, 2011 |
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Cerium's unusual behaviour
(PhysOrg.com) -- Livermore researchers have found that a crystal of cerium -- the chemical element that can be used for catalysts and fuel additives -- behaves in very unique ways when subjected to high pressures.
Jan 27, 2011 |
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Molten carbonate fuel cells: An alternative and cleaner power supply for ships
A new application of Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell (MCFC) has been developed by the European-funded MC WAP research project to be eventually used as an alternative power supply for ships. This will be cleaner ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 12, 2011 |
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Methane-powered laptops may be closer than you think
(PhysOrg.com) -- Making fuel cells practical and affordable will not happen overnight. It may, however, not take much longer.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 17, 2010 |
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