Clean energy for cleaner fuel cells
Fuel cells use hydrogen and oxygen, a chemical reaction between them and a
catalyst generates electricity leaving only one by-product - pure water.
Currently fuel cells rely on liquefied natural gas (LNG), which although
much cleaner than traditional fossil fuel resources, is still dirty and
still relies on traditional fossil fuel providers. FCC and AFS have
developed a new power source for their fuel cells that relies on ammonia, an
inexpensive and readily available compound.
Energy Replay is using scientific and engineering skills to create a solar
furnace harnessing the sunshine to re-combine nitrogen and hydrogen to
reform the ammonia, thus maximising the efficiency of the system to an
entirely clean process. |
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The Fuel Cell
A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that combines hydrogen and oxygen
to produce electricity, with water and heat as its by-products. Since the
conversion of the fuel to energy takes place via an Electro-chemical
process, not combustion, the process is clean, quiet and highly efficient –
two to three times more efficient than fuel burning.
No other energy generation technology offers the combination of benefits
that these fuel cells do. In addition to low or zero emissions, other
benefits include high efficiency. |
