FuelCell能源公司獲190萬美元資金

FuelCell Energy today announced that the US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded it approximately $1.9 million for the Development of a Microchannel High Temperature Recuperator for Fuel Cell Systems. The award will be funded from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.

FuelCell能源公司今天宣布，美國能源部（DOE）的授予它約190萬美元開發微通道換熱器高溫燃料電池係統。該資金來自2009年度美國恢複和再投資計劃。

The programme&qpos;s goal is to improve the performance and cost of fuel cell power plants that are integrated with unfired gas turbines in combined cycle applications such as FuelCell Energy&qpos;s patented Direct FuelCell/Turbine, by using advances in microchannel technology.Microchannels are tiny passages in the heat exchangers (recuperators) that significantly enhance heat recovery effectiveness and potentially reduce recuperat.FuelCell Energy, in partnership with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), will fabricate and test a 15 kilowatt and a 150 kilowatt thermal recuperato.This project involves the development of design, scalability analysis, fabrication, and commercialapplicability of microchannel-based recuperators for fuel cell systems.

該項目的目標是提高燃料電池裝置性能和降低其成本

，包括換熱器的測試分析

、模型驗證測試、以及設計大小適當的兆瓦級的燃料電池係統。FuelCell能源公司與西北太平洋國家實驗室（PNNL）合作
，將製造和測試了15萬千瓦和150千瓦熱換熱器。該項目涉及設計開發

，可擴展性分析，製造和微通道為基礎的燃料電池係統換熱器的商業化應用。