Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Development at NIMTE

The largest SOFC R&D activity in China is conducted at NIMTE where 45 full time staff is vertically integrated. We manufacture and sell planar anode supported cells for international market with the highest performance/price ratio. We offer various nanopowders including LSM, LSCF, LSC, CGO, YSZ and SSZ. Long term tests on performance degradation, in particular at low temperature and high current density, are intensively carried out in our cell testing group. We demonstrated low cost stack by combining internal manifolding design and low cost components selection. A five cell short stack has run for more than 3000 hours and the voltage is monitored for individual cells. Stacks of 500 W to kW power range are built and tested. We successfully manufactured 30×30cm 2 cells for multi-kilowatt single stack. 2 kW power and heat co-generation system are under development and 20 kW electrical generation system is planned this year in collaboration with a large Chinese electricity generation company.