The changing environment for fuel cells in buildings

Governments, both local and national, are increasingly keen to reduce the carbon footprint of new and existing buildings and are now introducing legislation to encourage the use of new technologies and energy saving measures. Incentives are also being put into place that could transform the economics of clean and renewable technologies, including fuel cell CHP systems. This session will address the potential impact of government legislation and incentives on stationary fuel cell systems and how manufacturers are responding to this.

Topics that would be relevant to this session include:

• Micro CHP
• Uninterruptible Power Supplies
• Co-generation
• Distributed Energy
• Integration with renewables

Hydrogen and Fuel Technology

The reforming of natural gas and other organic compounds provide the hydrogen used by most fuel cell systems today. Papers and posters are also invited for Grove 11 on the production of hydrogen from renewable sources including wind, solar, biofuels and organic waste. Papers on the distribution and storage of hydrogen will also be considered.

Topics that would be relevant to this session include:

• Hydrogen
• Hydrogen infrastructure
• Biofuels
• Waste-to-Energy

Vehicles

There is growing demand for electric drive zero-emission vehicles, including hydrogen fuel cell hybrids. Interesting concepts include fork-lifts, fleet delivery vehicles, taxis, buses, trucks, cars, boats and aircraft. This call is for papers on fuel cell and hybrid vehicles showing new results on performance, lifetime, system design, applications, demonstrations and deliveries.

Topics that would be relevant to this session include:

• Integrated systems
• Hybrids
• Competition with electric vehicles
• Auxiliary power units

Electronic and Portable Systems

The capabilities of consumer electronic devices such as laptop computers and mobile telephones are limited mainly by their battery size and capacity. Many leading suppliers have reached a commercial stage with revolutionary new solutions. This session will examine the latest trends and developments in micro and portable power sources and also power supplies for communications and information technology together with their fuelling systems.

Topics that would be relevant to this session include:

• Communications
• Battery replacement
• Consumer applications
• Military applications

Electricity Generation and Transmission

The role of fuel cell and hydrogen in base-load power generation, combined heat and power production (including trigeneration), virtual power plants, grid integration integration with renewables and issues regarding regulation.

Topics that would be relevant to this session include:

• Grid Integration
• Base-load power generation
• Virtual power plants
• Integration with renewables
• Regulation
• Smart Grids
• Trigeneration