Several fuel forms are being considered for their potential to operate at very high temperatures and to ensure an excellent retention of fission products : composite ceramic fuel, advanced fuel particles, or ceramic clad elements of actinide compounds.
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Most of the research will be conducted at Westinghouse's Science and Technology Center in Pittsburgh, where engineers will test ceramic fuel cells as electricity sources, a concept developed by engineers and the federal agency in the early 1970s.
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To test the effects of micro combined heat and power on a smart grid, 45 natural gas SOFC units ( each 1.5kW ) from Republiq Power ( Ceramic Fuel Cells ) will be placed in 2013 on Ameland to function as a virtual power plant.
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Solid oxide fuel cells have a wide variety of applications, from use as auxiliary power units in vehicles to stationary power generation with outputs from 100 W to 2 MW . In 2009, Australian company, Ceramic Fuel Cells successfully achieved an efficiency of an SOFC device up to the previously theoretical mark of 60 %.
