Next Big Thing Is Methanol Fuel Cell

by Fuel Cell Mike on October 13, 2009


A very interesting cell phone was recently shown in Japan. Toshiba is introducing a cell phone that runs on methanol fuel. It fits well into the whole going green rage we’re seeing around the world. This phone is a modified Toshiba T002 that’s being shown by Japanese carrier KDDI.

The phone is based on a direct methanol fuel cell or DMFC for short. DMFC’s are able to produce electricity from the reaction between methanol, water, and air. This type of battery is recognized as being a much greener than the traditional ones. The fuel cell unit also includes a lithium ion battery. This enables to phone to be able to deal with the high power demands when the phone is used to make calls or browse the web. This gives the phone an amazing 320 hours of battery life. That’s three days longer than the normal T002. You might think it cant get any better than that, however this phone does that. The battery life is amazing, but its ability to be recharged in seconds rather than hours is unheard off. All it takes to recharge this phone, is a small squirt of methanol.

A lot of people don’t like the fact that the extra fuel cell makes the phone twice as thick as the original. That’s a small price to pay, for all the benefits that come along with this phone. Toshiba is trying to introduce a new portable charger that will use this same technology. This charger will be able to be used to recharge batteries in the many portable gadgets we have today. Be on the lookout for when these products will hit the market.

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Can Urine Rescue Hydrogen-Powered Cars?

by Fuel Cell Mike on October 8, 2009


Hi folks, be ready to build your own tank instead of a sink to preserve all that urine you let it go free. The latest research by a Ohio University based scientist claims to have come up with a nickel based electrode to oxidize a chemical-(NH2)2CO-which is nothing other than animal urea.
While all efforts are towards making electric power driven cars, there lies a side view towards this new discovery. Already the much talked about hydrogen fuel cells for cars have been hushed up. The main disadvantage in hydrogen fuel cells is that the hydrogen molecules are not floating around unaccompanied. They are to be split from other atoms to which they have a serious bond. It needs more energy to split them . It means you need an extra energy that is normally required to move your car.
Now that this new discovery is there, it is possible to split hydrogen atom from the urea with lesser energy. It requires a mere 0.37 volts to remove the hydrogen atom from a urine molecule which is equivalent to just 25percent of the energy required to split a hydrogen from a water molecule. It is a clear evidence that energy balance obtained from ‘urea derived’ hydrogen is a better choice.
Now are you able to perceive that car manufacturers have already started secret discussions on strategies for winning a tender for maintaining local sewerage treatment facility. If so please preserve your urine which may be exchanged for cash.

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fuel cell are galvanic cell in which

by Fuel Cell Mike on October 4, 2009


chemical energy of fuels is directly converted into electrical energy.conventional conversion of chemical energy of fuels into electrical raise steam is then used for spinning turbines connected with electric generators.the efficiency of this,process,which cannot exceed that of a reversible Carnot engine varies from 20 to 40 per cent.Fuel cells,on the other hand convert about 75 per cent of the available chemical energy into electrical energy.fuels cells are associated with number of advantages.their efficiency is very high.About 75 per cent of chemical energy into electrical energy.The individual cells can be stacked and connected in series to generate higher voltages.They are also very light.
However there are a number of engineering problems which shall have to be solved before fuel cells become practical sources of electrical energy.Once it is done.fuel cell technology would bring revolution in the area of energy productions.

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Who Said Fuel Cells Were the Wave of the Future?

by Fuel Cell Mike on September 28, 2009


I am sure you all remember seeing the old movies where they were set in the future. You know the one. The one with the flying cars and houses that clean themselves and children who play in the park with mechanical dogs that bark in 5 different languages. Well, we may not be that advanced but at least we do have some of those hydrogen powered cars. Or at least about 200 people in the entire population of Earth have them. What we once thought was the wave of the future has turned out to be an expense that the normal citizen’s pocketbook can’t handle. Not only are these futuristic dream cars too expensive to purchase, they are also too expensive to make. To be built correctly it must be done by hand. It will be at least another 15 years before these master machines can be produced in bulk. Before we can even begin to dream about releasing hydrogen powered v vehicles into the community first we need to hydrogen fueling stations to provide them with power. Those types of buildings are almost as much of impossibility as the cars themselves. But with leaps and bounds being made daily in technology, maybe the newest futuristic movie can portray them and maybe they will be seen in our lifetime other than on the big screen

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Fuel cell devices are versatile in all

by Fuel Cell Mike on September 28, 2009


An effective cell with all features is the alkaline fuel cell. It has the wonderful feature of fact that it has been sent to moon for various purposes and thus it has the distinguished fact when compared to others type of cells. fuel cell devices are
exemplary devices that produces a pure oxygen and hence it has been widely use din space purposes. It is mostly found in all space activities wherein which the scientist do a wonderful research with purposes. It finds the predominant place while a research goes on. Major of the scientists are using this device for their scientific study and hence it is recognized as the world wide wonder than that of anything. Mostly fuel cell powered have been used in the production of electricity and hence the process of generating electricity is highly been formed by this. Apart from using this for various productions, it has to be taken care to cope with the carbon-dioxide sensitivity as it has fewer copes. While the advantages are in upper hand the use of this cell device is highly recognized as the better cell than anything.

It is a device, which can be easily produced without involving a lot of cost. Very cheaper and easy to handle. Hence, this versatile deice has to be enhanced if further research is done to a dazzling height.

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New Demand for Methanol: Fuel Cell

by Fuel Cell Mike on September 28, 2009


The petrol chemical industry plays a major and important role in our everyday life. Almost everything that we are dependent on nowadays is made from petrochemicals. These include plastics, home appliances, clothes, footwear and a lot more other applications. This industry is a rapidly developing and changing one and professional and others in the industry need to keep up-to-date with the latest cutting age developments. This is because new processes, new product and new chemicals with new applications are invented or discovered everyday.

The US department of transport has approved to permit in-house use of modern methanol powered fuel cells that are used to power computers and other portable gadgets. It is therefore expected that there will be a slight to significant increase in the use of fuel cell and methanol in everyday use especially in portable devices.

Passengers will be allowed to use methanol in commercial airline passenger compartments. This will also be allowed in the crew compartments as well.
All the major manufacturers of hand held devices such as mobile phones, digital cameras, DVD players and laptops, will see a significant or perhaps a slight boost in their overall sales figures.

Thus a significant growth and expansion is expected in the petrol chemical industry and this will see a significant growth in hand held devices.

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Breakthroughs in fuel cell devices

by Fuel Cell Mike on September 27, 2009


Scientists in both the United States and France have made major breakthroughs in miniature fuel cells, making the possible the replacement of battery-powered appliances with fuel cell powered devices in the near future.

The scientists in the United States have created a fuel cell that is three millimeters in diameter that produces 1 milliampere at 1 millivolt of tension. It does so with very few parts. A reservoir of water is separated from a metal hydride solution by a porous membrane. Tension in the water allows it to seep through the membrane, where it reacts with the metal hydride solution to form hydrogen. The release of hydrogen both increases the pressure in that part of the fuel cell enough to stop the water from seeping through the membrane and also reacts with electrodes to generate the actual energy. Because it uses water tension rather than gravity, the fuel cell can face any direction. This feature is important for use in portable electronic devices that might be rotated in any direction.

French scientists have created a fuel cell three times as big as the one created by the U.S. scientists, and it produces much more power. It uses methanol rather than metal hydride, and the methanol must be added to the cell from an external source. Both the methanol fuel cell and the water fuel cell are great strides toward a fuel-cell-powered reality.

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Fuel Cells

by Fuel Cell Mike on August 27, 2009


The future of cells used for vehicle propulsion and electronic devices belong to the fuel cells. There are many fuel cell powered devices in the market and they are growing fast. The technology of fuel cells is continuously improving day by day and the cells are becoming smarter. An example of this was shown by Honda. Their fuel cells were smaller and lighter. They were twenty percent smaller to be precise. The fuel cells had greater power which would be of great use while designing electronic items.

There are a lot of hype surrounding fuel cells. These are being designed for all kind of electronics like laptops and so on. There is a great emphasis on the development of fuel cell powered devices like mobiles and laptops. One example of this was shown by Toshiba. It displayed fuel cells that could run laptops for a period of ten hours. There were various kinds of fuel cells. Some were bulky but some were small enough to be placed inside the laptops easily.

As the fuel cell technology improves day by day devices are becoming smarter day by day. Toshiba has also shown smaller fuel cells than previous ones. This makes laptops smaller and lighter than previous ones. The size of fuel cells is decreasing day by day with the advances in technology. In the future fuel cells would be small enough to be fit inside the case of laptop. Nowadays, fuel cell powered devices are of various types which include media players and so on.

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Fuel cell Devices In Cars

by Fuel Cell Mike on August 27, 2009


Hydrogen fuel celled cars provide for an improved automobile to increase efficiency and benefits to the driver. These cars do this by increasing the efficiency of the automobile. Increased automoble efficiency means better gas milage and less wear and tear on your car. Such cars are also more friendly to environment which provides a holistic benefit to society along with driver benefits

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Fuel Cells

by Fuel Cell Mike on August 19, 2009


The cost of gas is skyrocketing and this is making it ever more expensive to operate a vehicle. Many of us have to drive very great distances though to get to work, to shop, and to get to the many other locations we need to be in a given day. Given the amount of driving we have to do this means we will inevitably burn a lot of gas in the process. As the price of gas rises this is ensuring that gas eats up a larger and larger portion of our budget. This is an unacceptable situation and it is not unforeseeable that the price of gas will rise by an even more significant percentage in the coming year. Given this, it is critical to have alternatives and many such alternatives are well down their development pipeline. These alternatives are not only important from a cost perspective but are also important from an environmental perspective as the burning of fossil fuels does tremendous damage to our environment. This is why fuel cells are such a great option. Fuel cells are already beginning to be used in vehicles and fuel cells provide a very cost efficient as well as environmentally friendly option to power vehicles.

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