Electricity Production: There is another way (interim Jan-April 2007 application)

电力生产：还有另一种方式（2007 年 1 月至 4 月临时申请）

• 批准号: EP/E058922/1
• 负责人: Peter Slater
• 金额: $ 0.36万
• 依托单位: University of Surrey
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2007 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FE058922%2F1
• 关键词: Electricity; Production; There; another; way

The need for power in today's society is continuing to grow substantially. However, this power requirement is taking its toll on both remaining world-wide fossil fuel reserves, and the environment with growing greenhouse gas emissions. The latter has been particularly attracting considerable media coverage with projections that further rises in average global temperature will lead to disasterous consequences. There is consequently a need to start addressing these problems immediately. One way of reducing energy requirements is through more efficient energy conversion, and in this respect fuel cells are attracting considerable worldwide interest. Fuel cells are electrochemical devices which allow the direct conversion of chemical energy into electrical energy. They can be used in a wide range of applications, e.g. transport, stationary power, and portable devices. Their growing importance is due to the fact that they offer much higher efficiencies than conventional power generation systems along with vastly reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore if hydrogen is used as the fuel, then the exhaust is simply water. A number of recent reports have predicted that fuel cells will play a key role in helping the UK to meet its' environmental targets. With this change in the way electricity is produced, there is a need to introduce the principles of fuel cells to schoolchildren and the general public, since they will be the future users of this technology, and in the case of the former the future researchers in this area. In addition to the relevance of fuel cells to the UK's environmental strategy and indeed future economy, there is also an increasing need to generate more excitement in science in schools, which hands-on experience of fuel cells can offer. This project will build on a previous successful project developing fuel cell kits for loan to schools to make continued use of these kits in the future through loans to local schools and display at exhibitions. This will help to introduce and enthuse the general public and schoolchildren with the area of new energy technologies, aimed at helping to solve global pollution concerns.

当今社会对电力的需求持续大幅增长。然而，这种电力需求正在对世界范围内剩余的化石燃料储备和不断增长的温室气体排放的环境造成影响。后者特别吸引了大量媒体报道，预测全球平均气温进一步上升将导致灾难性后果。因此，有必要立即着手解决这些问题。减少能量需求的一种方法是通过更有效的能量转换，在这方面，燃料电池吸引了全世界相当大的兴趣。燃料电池是一种电化学装置，可以将化学能直接转化为电能。它们可用于广泛的应用，例如运输、固定电源和便携式设备。它们日益增长的重要性是由于它们提供比传统发电系统更高的效率沿着大大减少的温室气体排放。此外，如果氢被用作燃料，那么废气只是水。最近的一些报告预测，燃料电池将在帮助英国实现其环境目标方面发挥关键作用。随着电力生产方式的这种变化，有必要向学生和公众介绍燃料电池的原理，因为他们将是这项技术的未来用户，就前者而言，他们将是这一领域的未来研究人员。除了燃料电池与英国的环境战略和未来经济的相关性外，学校也越来越需要在科学方面产生更多的兴奋，这是燃料电池的实践经验所能提供的。该项目将在以前成功开发燃料电池套件的项目基础上再接再厉，以便通过向当地学校提供贷款和在展览会上展出，在今后继续使用这些套件。这将有助于向公众和学童介绍新能源技术，并激发他们的热情，以帮助解决全球污染问题。