America Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Market: Trends and Forecasts by 2018.

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell

The electrochemical device which converts the chemical energy such as hydrogen, methane , butane which is present in Fuels into an electrical energy by making use of the hydrogen and oxygen reaction.

Highest temperature at which the Solid Oxide Fuel Cells work ranges between 800ºC to the max of 1000ºC.  The normal efficiency of Fuel cells is around 60% but whenever the heat produced by Fuel Cells is harnessed the overall efficiency may increase to 80%.

 

Applications of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell

1) Portable power generation

    Products which are designed to be moved regularly.

    ex. Military applications, Auxiliary Power Units(APU).

Auxiliary Power Units (APU)

2) Stationary power generation

    the products which are developed for generating power but are not supposed to be a portable i.e
    these are static power generators.
   ex. combined heat and power (CHP), uninterruptible power systems (UPS) and primary power       units.

3) Power for transportation
    Applications that provide propulsive power required for the vehicles.
    ex. goods transport vehicles, Two-three wheeler vehicles, trains and trams.

America Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Market

• As the Fuel cell technology is highly efficient and its efficiency in converting fuel to energy can be over 80%. Hence the Fuel cell technology is commercially getting a good market for its applications over the past few years.
• American fuel cell market is having a high growth because of an high efficiency and increased clean energy demand and large investments related to hydrogen infrastructure development, especially in U.S. and Canada.
• The North America fuel cell market is estimated at around $667.7 million by 2018 with unit shipments increasing from 3,569 units in 2012 to 331,611 units by 2018.

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