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Release
11th November 2014
SOFT-PACT consortium completes the installation of more than 25 integrated fuel cells in UK & German homes.
The SOFT-PACT consortium has recently completed the penultimate phase of a European demonstration project of stationary fuel cell technology. Part funded by the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH-JU), the SOFT-PACT project partners have completed the installation of over
25 integrated fuel cell systems in a range of homes in both the UK & Germany to demonstrate the viability and efficiency of fuel cell micro-CHP systems.
The SOFT-PACT Integrated Fuel Cell (SIFC) units deployed utilise world leading Solid Oxide Fuel Cell technology from Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited, the latest Vogue product technology taken from Ideal Boilers Limited and specialist software from HOMA Software B.V. that consolidates the heat, power and operational data from each SIFC unit. As the fourth consortium member, E.ON Technologies Ltd manages the SOFT-PACT project, co-ordinates the installations with local installers and employs their own monitoring team to analyse and report on the SIFC data until the conclusion of the project in July
2015.
The SIFC units utilise a 1.5kW fuel cell running on grid supplied natural gas that generates up to 36 kWh of electricity per day for each home. The heat generated by the fuel cell is fully integrated into the SIFC's 26kW boiler and tank system to optimise the boiler's delivery of DHW and heating for each home. The project will be conducted over a full year to demonstrate the efficiencies that the SIFC system can achieve across all four seasons.
Earlier phases of the SOFT-PACT project, which initially started in July 2011, included the deployment of 40 systems in the UK & Germany that combined Ceramic Fuel Cells' BlueGEN fuel cell with either a separate domestic boiler and tank configuration or a combined boiler & tank unit. The results of these earlier trials significantly influenced the final design of the SIFC units that are now being trialled.
Additional information is available at www.soft-pact.eu
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Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited
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Website : www.cfcl.com.au www.ceramcifuelcells.co.uk
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For further information please contact: Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited
Paddy Thompson (UK) Tel. : +44 (0) 1491 822 829
Email : [email protected]
Robert Morgan (UK) Tel. : +44 (0) 1491 822 832
Email : [email protected]
About Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited:
Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited is a world leader in developing fuel cell technology to generate highly efficient and low-emission electricity from widely available natural gas. Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited has sold its BlueGEN gas-to-electricity generator to major utilities and other foundation customers in Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Australia, and the USA. Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited is also developing fully integrated power and heating products with leading energy companies E.ON UK in the United Kingdom, GdF Suez in France and EWE in Germany.
The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM market and the Australian Securities
Exchange (code CFU).
www.cfcl.com.au www.ceramicfuelcells.co.uk
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