Ceramic Fuel Cells

This article is about the company. For the type of fuel cell, see Protonic ceramic fuel cell.
Ceramic Fuel Cells
Public
(ASX: CFU, LSE: CFU)
Industry Alternative energy
Founded 1992
Headquarters Melbourne, Australia
Key people
 Alasdair Locke Chairman
Robert Kennett Managing Director
Products Fuel cells
Number of employees
 150
Website www.cfcl.com.au
Footnotes / references
[1]

Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd (ASX: CFU) was an Australian fuel cell technology company,[2] based in Melbourne. The company produces the "BlueGen" gas-to-electricity generators.[3] CFCL's develops solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology to provide reliable, energy efficient, high quality, and low-emission electricity from natural gas and renewable fuels. CFCL is developing SOFC products for small-scale on-site micro combined heat and power (m-CHP) and distributed generation units that co-generate electricity and heat for domestic use. On 1 March 2015 it was announced that the company had appointed voluntary administrators.[4]

History

Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd was formed in 1992 by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and a consortium of energy and industrial companies.[5] In 2009 a production facility opened in Noble Park, Melbourne[6] and another one in Heinsberg, Germany, which won the North Rhine-Westphalia's economic development agency NRW.INVEST award for innovation.[3]

Products

The first marketed product of the company is "BlueGen" a solid oxide fuel cell which creates electricity and heat by passing natural gas over ceramic fuel cells. BlueGen is 85% efficient and is reported to cut the average Australian home's annual carbon dioxide emissions by 18 tonnes.[6]

Partners

CFCL has signed agreements with leading European utility customers and appliance partners in Europe and Japan to deploy micro-CHP units using CFCL's SOFC technology. These agreements give the Company access to a number of large and advanced European markets for m-CHP units. The Company's utility partners in these markets have a total of more than 20 million gas and electricity customers.

See also

References

  1. ↑ CFU Annual Report 2010 Archived 19 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine., retrieved 22 October 2010
  2. ↑ Giles Parkinson: Australia's Ceramic Fuel Cells hails success of California's Bloom Energy, in The Australian, 15 March 2010, retrieved 22 October 2010
  3. 1 2 AAP: Ceramic Fuel wins innovation gong, in The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 July 2010, retrieved 22 October 2010
  4. ↑ "Ceramic Fuel Cells falls into administration". Financial Review. 2015-03-02. Retrieved 2016-11-28.
  5. ↑ CFU: Company History Archived 12 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine., retrieved 22 October 2010
  6. 1 2 Adam Morton: Fuel cells a tough sell in a coal-fired economy, in The Age 13 March 2010, retrieved 24 October 2010

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/28/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.