Over the past 12 months CESI lab has been designing and fabricating a custom pressurized SOFC test stand to validate the Oxy-SOFC concept. Additional details are here. Thanks to Thermaltek for designing this pressurized furnace that can operate at 1MPa and 1000C, and thanks to Fideris for helping develop this test stand that will deliver pressurized hydrogen, oxygen, and water to the SOFC test feature. We have dozens of SOFC’s to test from 4 different manufactures. Time to connect the pieces and get to testing!

Dustin McLarty presented on the development and construction of a pressurized SOFC test stand at WSU.

Garrett Hedberg presented on a decoupled Fuel Cell Gas Turbine hybrid (dFC-GT) concept that can avoid surge/stall issues and still yield 70% fuel-to-electric efficiency.

Congratulations to Marshall Crenshaw for receiving the NASA Space Grant Fellowship in Science and Engineering!

Marshall’s research into improving hydrogen liquefaction technology can reduce the energy cost of space travel and help deliver clean hydrogen fuel for fuel cell vehicles.

Keep up the great work!