SOFC activity in Romania

State of the art: description of ongoing activities in this field

the-romanian-position-paper_sofc.pdf

Electrotechnical Institute, Division of Electrotechnology and Materials Science

Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells research.

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http://cordis.europa.eu

The National Research and Development Institute for Cryogenics and Isotopic Technologies - ICIT Ramnicu Valcea

The National research and development Institute for Cryogenics and Isotopic Technologies (ICIT) has developed at national level the first experimental pilot plant for energy production using proton exchange membrane fuel cells.

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Needs analysis report

This report was prepared by IEN, ECB, Enviros and partners from ACC contries to analyse the state of the art, the existing barriers and needs for research successful performance in the field of fuel cells and hydrogen energy in Poland, Slovakia, Chech Republic, Bulgaria and Romania.

enfugen-del-21.pdf

Fuel Cell Match Maker

This forum will help businesses and organizations reach out to fuel cell suppliers and other collaborators by posting their needs in a globally accessible space. It will also help match qualified job seekers with fuel cell companies and vice versa.

http://www.fuelcells.org/mm.html

Laboratory For Advanced Material Research (LAMAR)

University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (UCTM, Sofia) – Laboratory for advanced materials research (LAMAR) is with experience in successful processing, development and characterization of wide range of advanced materials. The staff of the Lab has a high practice in application of new methods for synthesis and phase analysis. A high scientific power exists regarding physicochemical and structural characterization of nano- and submicron – structured coatings. The local, regional and international contracts (including those from 3-rd 5-th and 6-th FP of EC, marked below) as well as the quality of the scientific work of the research team guarantees a high level of scientific investigation, adequate interpretation and overall competition in the SOFC research and development.
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Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy R&D structure in Poland

Dr. Andrii Klimov
Institute of Power Engineering (IEN)
Warsaw, Poland

1. Polish institutions interested in commercial application of hydrogen technologies in power production and their activities.

In Poland institutions interested in hydrogen production and utilization are concentrated in three main organizations, which creation was initiated by research and industrial societies:

· Polish Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform
· Polish association for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
· Scientific network: Sustainable Energy Systems (”ENERGY FUTURE”)
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HYDROGEN AND FUEL CELLS IN ROMANIA

Report from “Romanian Alliance for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells”,
H2FC-RO

Prof. Ioan Stamatin
3 Nano-SAE Research Centre
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics
P.O.Box MG-38, 077125, Bucharest-Magurele, ROMANIA,

Renewable sources of energy will have a major role to the energy balance in a major role to the energy balance in upcoming years. Romania has also an important energy potential in solar, wind energy and biomass and offers utilization availabilities at the local and national level.

The “Strategy of capitalizing renewable energy sources”, drawn up by the Ministry of Economy and Commerce in 2003, proposes as a 2015 target that the share of renewable sources reach about 10% of the overall demand.
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The Hydrogen Technology - State of Art in Romania

Prof. dr. eng. Anca Duta
Executive Manager of the Centre Product Design for Sustainable
Developemt
Transilvania University of Brasov
Romania

1. Hydrogen production

At industrial level:
Hydrogen production plant by steam reforming – in 2003 a installation started to be built at the ARPECHIM Oil Plant (Pitesti), using Foster Wheeler’s hydrogen production and reformer technology. Capacity: produce 25,000m3/h high-purity hydrogen
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STATUS OF DEVELOPMENT OF MATERIALS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS IN BULGARIA

Prof. Vladimir Kozhukharov
University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy,
Laboratory for Advanced Materials Research (LAMAR)
8, Kl. Okhridski, blvd., Sofia-1756, Bulgaria, viko@uctm.edu

It is well known, that the new energy systems for portable, stationary and transportation usage are one of the leading scientific and applicable branch in the modern energy technologies. Fuel Cells (FC) development in Bulgaria was first initiated in the national laboratories and Universities. The attention was generally on materials development and characterization for both low temperature (PEM) and high temperature (SOFC) fuel cells and selected hydrides for hydrogen storage. In short the activities in Bulgaria can be summarized as follows:
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