Solid oxide fuel cells for practical applications

In the future solid oxide fuell cells (SOFC) can play an important role in the energy market owing to different potential applications. Together with the company Staxera which brings the SOFC stack to the market IKTS SOFC-stacks for stationary and mobile systems were developed. Due to these investigations many different materials and technologies are used to get a stack which can then be integrated into the system. Especially the interconnectors and glass seals are of great importance. Based on the fuel cell and module integration competence built at IKTS the institute is actively seeking to widen the technological options. In this context a new Micro-PEM fuel cell (PEM = Polymer Exchange Membrane) systems based on LTCC (LTCC = Low Temperature Cofired Ceramics) technics is built. Entnommen aus <a_href="http://www.fiz-technik.de/db/b_tema.htm" target="_blank">TEMA</a>