Extending battery storage by fuel cell in solar home

该项目旨在结合江苏合作伙伴ZNB的太阳能电池基础设施和英国公司Adelan的固体氧化物燃料电池(SOFC)知识，以及康拉德·安德森的制造专业知识，开发一套“SOFcSOLar”(SOFSOL)家用电源系统。可再生能源在中国家庭中的使用越来越多，但受到能源储存的限制。传统上，电池被用来储存断断续续的可再生能源，但问题是电池的重量、体积和成本。我们已经证明，燃料电池可以增强电池存储，在相同重量/体积/成本的情况下提供数倍以上的存储和后备容量，同时还可以从气体电网中提供热水。因此，本项目拟开发的太阳能/电池/燃料电池新产品将有利于太阳能房的应用，具有很大的市场需求。该项目由英国Adelan有限公司的K Kendall FRS博士领导，江苏的郭俊平先生在SOFC专家梁波博士的协助下进行。英国和中国合作伙伴在燃料电池、电池和太阳能领域有着良好的记录，在过去3年中多次互访。结果将是：成立一家新的合资公司，将中国的成果商业化；在中国建立新的产品原型，用于市场应用；为发明创造新的知识产权；在科学期刊上发表新的出版物。

This project is to develop a ‘SOFcSOLar’ (SOFSOL) home power system combining the solar battery infrastructure of the Jiangsu partner ZNB with the solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) knowledge of the UK company Adelan, with manufacturing expertise from Conrad Anderson. Renewable energy is increasingly used in China homes, but is limited by energy storage. Batteries are traditionally being used to store the intermittent renewable energy but the problem is battery weight, volume and cost. We have shown that fuel cells can enhance the battery storage to give many times more storage and back-up capacity for the same weight/volume/cost, while also providing hot water from the gas grid. Therefore the proposed new solar/battery/fuel cell product to be developed in this project will be beneficial in solar house applications, with large market demand. The project is led by Dr K Kendall FRS, Adelan Ltd in the UK and by Mr Guo Junping, assisted by SOFC expert Dr Liang Bo, in Jiangsu. The UK and China partners have a strong track record in the fuel cell, battery and solar fields and have visited each other many times over the past 3 years. The outcomes will be:- A new joint company to commercialise the results in China markets; New product prototypes for market application in China; New IPR for inventions; New publications in Scientific Journals.