Ceramic Fuel Cells

This article is about the company. For the type of fuel cell, see Protonic ceramic fuel cell.
Ceramic Fuel Cells
Public
(ASX: CFU, LSE: CFU)
Industry Alternative energy
Founded 1992
Headquarters Melbourne, Australia
Key people
 Jeff Harding, Chairman
Brendan Dow, Managing Director
Products Fuel cells
Number of employees
 150
Slogan Clean Power for your Home
Website www.cfcl.com.au
Footnotes / references
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Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd (ASX: CFU) is an Australian fuel cell technology company,[2] based in Melbourne. The company produces the "BlueGen" gas-to-electricity generators.[3] CFCL's develops solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology to provide reliable, energy efficient, high quality, and low-emission electricity from natural gas and renewable fuels. CFCL is developing SOFC products for small-scale on-site micro combined heat and power (m-CHP) and distributed generation units that co-generate electricity and heat for domestic use. On 1 March 2015 it was announced that the company had appointed voluntary administrators.

History

Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd was formed in 1992 by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and a consortium of energy and industrial companies.[4] In 2009 a production facility opened in Noble Park, Melbourne[5] and another one in Heinsberg, Germany, which won the North Rhine-Westphalia's economic development agency NRW.INVEST award for innovation.[3]

Products

The first marketed product of the company is "BlueGen" a solid oxide fuel cell which creates electricity and heat by passing natural gas over ceramic fuel cells. BlueGen is 85% efficient and is reported to cut the average Australian home's annual carbon dioxide emissions by 18 tonnes.[5]

Partners

CFCL has signed agreements with leading European utility customers and appliance partners in Europe and Japan to deploy micro-CHP units using CFCL's SOFC technology. These agreements give the Company access to a number of large and advanced European markets for m-CHP units. The Company's utility partners in these markets have a total of more than 20 million gas and electricity customers.

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References

  1. ↑ CFU Annual Report 2010, retrieved 22 October 2010
  2. ↑ Giles Parkinson: Australia's Ceramic Fuel Cells hails success of California's Bloom Energy, in The Australian, 15 March 2010, retrieved 22 October 2010
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 AAP: Ceramic Fuel wins innovation gong, in The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 July 2010, retrieved 22 October 2010
  4. ↑ CFU: Company History, retrieved 22 October 2010
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Adam Morton: Fuel cells a tough sell in a coal-fired economy, in The Age 13 March 2010, retrieved 24 October 2010

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