Ceramic Fuel Cells

Ceramic Fuel Cells
Ceramic Fuel Cells
Type Public
(ASX: CFU, LSE: CFU)
Industry Alternative energy
Founded 1992
Headquarters Melbourne, Australia
Key people Jeff Harding, Chairman
Brendan Dow, Managing Director
Products Fuel cells
Employees 110
Website www.cfcl.com.au
References: [1]

Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd (ASX: CFU) is 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.

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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.[4] In 2009 a production facility opened in Noble Park, Melbourne[5] 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.[5]

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, 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. ^ a b AAP: Ceramic Fuel wins innovation gong, in The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 July 2010, retrieved 22 October 2010
  4. ^ CFU: Company History, retrieved 22 October 2010
  5. ^ a b Adam Morton: Fuel cells a tough sell in a coal-fired economy, in The Age 13 March 2010, retrieved 24 October 2010

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