Extending battery storage by fuel cell in solar home

该项目旨在开发一种“SOFcSOLar”（SOFSOL）家用电力系统，将江苏合作伙伴ZNB的太阳能电池基础设施与英国Adelan公司的固体氧化物燃料电池（SOFC）知识相结合，并与Conrad安德森的制造专业知识相结合。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，电池被用来存储间歇性的可再生能源，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的存储能力，在相同的重量/体积/成本下提供数倍的存储和备用容量，同时还可以从燃气网提供热水。因此，本项目拟开发的新型太阳能/电池/燃料电池产品将有利于太阳能房屋的应用，具有巨大的市场需求。该项目由英国Adelan Ltd的K Kendall FRS博士和江苏的郭俊平先生领导，并由SOFC专家梁波博士协助。英国和中国的合作伙伴在燃料电池、电池和太阳能领域有着良好的业绩记录，在过去3年中多次互访。成果将包括：-成立一家新的合资公司，将成果在中国市场商业化;在中国市场应用的新产品原型;新的发明知识产权;在科学期刊上发表新的文章。

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.