National Technical Research Centre of Finland has issued a communique said the center has developed a unique fuel cell system capable of using natural gas as fuel for power generation. Its uniqueness is to use a single flat 10 kW class solid oxide fuel cell stack to produce electricity.

    A single fuel cell power is limited, to enhance its usefulness, a number of fuel cell researchers in series, parallel, etc. assembled into fuel cell stack, flat solid oxide fuel cell stack is a shape of "multi-layer sandwiched" assembly structure.

    National Technical Research Centre of Finland, said the experts, they will be 10 in two months ago for the first time a single flat-kilowatt solid oxide fuel cell stack assembly into the system, and tested under actual operating conditions.

    The center noted that the increased power of a single fuel cell stack can be built for the future large-scale power plants to create conditions for solid oxide cell. Single flat on the market power of the fuel cell stack of 0.5 kW to more than a few kilowatts, if the use of fuel cell technology to build a power plant, it needs a lot of the fuel cell stack, with assembly, maintenance and management, the cost is very high. Improve the single flat plate fuel cell stack to reduce the power of the new power plant construction and maintenance costs.