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Membership
In addition to having access to Ohio's largest fuel cell network, partners of WFCG receive discounted rates for service. Visit www.wfcg.org to find out more.
To submit materials or information for Hot Off the Grid, contact Lyndy Rutkowski at lyndy@case.edu. |
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Partner Facilities
Wright
Fuel Cell Center accommodates to specific fuel cell testing needs,
in addition, our partner's fuel cell facilities each have
their own area of expertise:
Case
Wright Fuel Cell Center
CAPI: Analytical instruments
SOFC Lab
Cleveland State University
SOFC Lab
Ohio State University
Fuel Cell and Catalyst Research Lab
Stark State College of Technology
Fuel Cell Prototyping Center
University of Toledo
Designing new Fuel Cell Lab
Currently based in Engineering Labs |
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Four Ohio Fuel Cell Companies Featured in the Race Toward Commercialization
Wright
Fuel Cell Group services have assisted Ohio fuel cell organizations
with great research and development advancements in 2007. |
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Contained Energy Expands Operations with Help from the WFCG
Kevin Berner, president and CEO of Contained Energy Inc., attributes his recent successes to his partnership with the Wright Fuel Cell Group.
"We consider the Wright Fuel Cell Group to be a very important
value-added member of our team," Berner said. "The WFCG team,
specifically Mirko
Antloga, plays an integral role in our day-to-day operations."
Contained Energy, a direct carbon fuel cell manufacturer
headquartered at the WFCG, is working to develop an application with
breakthrough energy density for mobile defense and security
applications. Read
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Contained Energy's engineers have roughly doubled the power density
of their direct carbon fuel cell technology in the past year. In
May 2007, Contained Energy received a $1 million grant from the Ohio
Department of Development, which has allowed the company to expand its
operations at the WFCG and increase the number of testing ovens from
two to six over the last six months. Additionally, the company's
growth has created an immediate need for four lab technicians and two
additional fuel cell engineers, with the possibility of adding a third
engineer in 2008. |
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WFCG Aides HydroGen with PAFC Manufacturing
HydroGen
has successfully recaptured the former Westinghouse 400kW air-cooled
phosphoric acid fuel cell (PAFC) production processes, and tested and
validated the PAFC technology in sub-scale and full-scale test
facilities.
According to Joshua Tosteson, president of HydroGen, the WFCG is
playing a crucial role in facilitating HydroGen's preparations for
developing an advanced manufacturing facility in Ohio, targeted for end
2008-early 2009, with initial capacity of 25 MW/year. Already
headquartered at the WFCG facility, HydroGen is working with the WFCG
to evaluate new materials and conduct test operations. Read
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Testing Complete For Use of Expanded Natural Graphite in PEM Fuel Cells as Gas Diffusion Layer
The WFCG is playing a key role in the development
of GrafTech's GRAFCELL® fuel cell components. The Wright Center has recently
completed testing that has enabled GrafTech to optimize its perforated
flexible graphite materials for use as gas diffusion layers (GDL) in
polymer elec trolyte
membrane fuel cell (PEMFC).
Historically, gas diffusion layers for
PEM fuel cells have been based on carbon or graphite fiber, which are
costly to manufacture, offer limited design flexibility, and can lead
to fiber penetration through the polymer electrolyte membrane.
GrafTech has achieved a significant milestone by making available, for
the first time, expanded natural graphite GDLs for use in PEMFCs. Read
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NexTech and WFCG Partner to Optimize SOFCs
Partnering with Plug Power and the WFCG, NexTech Materials is
developing solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC)
stacks for stationary and military applications, particularly for U.S.
Air Force and other military applications.
The WFCG is helping to identify the
stacks' ultimate failure mechanisms as well as to perform accelerated
testing techniques to quantify any degradation. The targeted
accelerated testing methods will help reduce the normal 1000 hour test
to 100 hours, significantly reducing time and resources. Read
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MISSION STATEMENT
To enable the commercialization of fuel cell technologies by marshaling Ohio's unique industrial and intellectual resources
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