{"id":2064,"date":"2016-08-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-806\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T19:42:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:42:10","slug":"innovation-anthology-806","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2016\/08\/25\/innovation-anthology-806\/","title":{"rendered":"#806: CCEMC Grand Challenge: University of Alberta Fuel Cell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Most people think of fuel cells as batteries that can be used to power cars.<\/p>\n

But Dr. Tom Etsell, a chemical and materials engineer at the University of Alberta, is thinking much bigger than that.<\/p>\n

With funding from the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation’s Grand Challenge, Dr. Etsell’s group is working on a ceramic fuel cell that operates at 700 degrees celcius.  And it converts industrial carbon dioxide emissions into carbon monoxide and water.<\/p>\n

DR. TOM ETSELL:<\/span>  We’re proposing to feed a 50-50 mixture of methane and CO2<\/span> into a fuel cell.  Then it reacts to form CO and hydrogen.  And then we have developed a catalyst which selectively now reacts with the hydrogen to produce water and runs the fuel cell.  The CO is untouched.  So the net result is the product coming out is a mixture of water and CO.  And the CO is a very valuable industrial raw material.  And so what we successfully do with this fuel cell is we get rid of CO2<\/span>, we produce electrical power, and we produce a valuable by-product in carbon monoxide.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Tom Etsell says the ceramic fuel cell would be installed at industrial sites like oil sands plants. <\/p>\n

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