Nippon Oil, Ebara Ballard Launch Open Field Test of Coil-oil Fueled 1kW PEFC System for Household Use.Tokyo, Japan, Aug 18, 2005 - (JCNN JCNN Japan Corporate News Network ) - Nippon Oil (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). : 5001) and Ebara Ballard announced on August 17 that they have started field testing a 1kW household use proton-exchange membrane fuel cell (PEFC PEFC Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell PEFC Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes PEFC Pan European Forest Council ) system that uses coil oil as a fuel. In the world's first household test that has used a coil oil-fueled power fuel cell, the companies have installed testing equipment in a total of nine homes (four houses and five collective housing units. The previous tests showed that the PEFC system achieves power generation efficiency more than 33% higher and overall efficiency more than 86% higher than the initial targets. The system is made in such a way that it can operate at -10 deg C. Nippon Oil and Ebaar Ballard are aiming to commercialize the system in fiscal 2006 by improving power generation efficiency and heat recovery efficiency and strengthening their collaborative product development Collaborative Product Development (Collaborative Product Design) (CPD) is a business strategy, work process and collection of software applications that facilitates different organizations to work together on the development of a product. capability. Source: JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) http://www.japancorp.net Copyright [c] 2005 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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