Fuel Cell Enabling Technologies
FCET, Inc is an applied engineering and technology company utilizing nanoscale film technology to extend the life, reduce the cost, and increase the performance of solid oxide fuel cell systems.
Making Hydrogen Competitive
The next generation of fuel cell and electrolyzer technology must be cost competitive, highly efficient, reliable and scalable. Commercial solid oxide fuel cells and electrolyzes are already more scalable and efficient than what dominates the market. However, due primarily to high operating temperatures, SOFCs and SOECs have introduced new challenges that have thus far held them back.
These high temperatures are a result of lower ionic conductivity through a relatively thick electrolyte layer. For some time the solution been clear, though difficult to obtain: a commercially viable ultra-thin electrolyte. FCET has developed and patented a process for depositing an electrolyte orders of magnitude thiner than any other on the market. The resulting conductivity allows for operation at lower temperatures than any other commercial solid oxide technology.
What this low temperature, combined with FCET’s design and manufacturing process, means for the energy consumer is lower capex, lower opex, lower degradation, and greater reliability.
FCET holds 10 patents, six of which are co-authored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and has an ongoing cooperative research and development agreement with Pacific Northwest National Lab.
These high temperatures are a result of lower ionic conductivity through a relatively thick electrolyte layer. For some time the solution been clear, though difficult to obtain: a commercially viable ultra-thin electrolyte. FCET has developed and patented a process for depositing an electrolyte orders of magnitude thiner than any other on the market. The resulting conductivity allows for operation at lower temperatures than any other commercial solid oxide technology.
What this low temperature, combined with FCET’s design and manufacturing process, means for the energy consumer is lower capex, lower opex, lower degradation, and greater reliability.
FCET holds 10 patents, six of which are co-authored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and has an ongoing cooperative research and development agreement with Pacific Northwest National Lab.
