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 SOFC, solid oxide fuel cell.
One of the world's largest and most advanced fuel cell to the effects stands four mil from Malmo. You go over the bridge, round Copenhagen and then take the left. It develops Topsoe Fuel Cells manufacturing methods that will reduce the price of fuel by 90 percent. - We have left the lab and production starts with a more industrial production, "says Helge Holm-Larsen. Now it almost all the work on bringing down manufacturing costs. Each production step developed, streamlined and automated. - The goal is to eliminate 90 percent of current costs, "says Helge Holm-Larsen. - Some of the material that is cheaper per unit when we make larger quantities, we can not take everything into production. But a great deal. That there is still a pilot plant is evident as we move around the premises. - You may see it as a factory modules. We are developing a module at a time so that the production functions. Then we can put them together in a flow, "says Soren Primdahl, production manager. The first module is tape casting. At one end of a very long machine is the ceramic paste to be a fuel cell frame on a plastic sheet. At the other end the slices of fuel cells. - It is twenty centimeters high technology here, "says Soren Primdal and pointers. The rest is forty meters oven. In the next step spray painted two thin layers of fuel cell plates. The layers are combined fourth as thick as a hair, so it comes to painting robots are easy on the hand. At this stage, fuel cells still look like oblong, light greenish flatbread on plate racks going in and out of the oven. - All this must be done on a conveyor belt in the future, all the way with spray painting and ovens that are as drying tunnels, "says Soren Primdal. The finished thin breads are packed together and run off to another place, where they cut into precise squares of 12x12 cm. Will then come back and mounted in stacks. It is made by hand at a few tables around a floor surface. The flat cells to be stacked with millimeter accuracy and it are a real pill to do. - Model building was an asset for those seeking jobs here. But soon, you should see a robot here instead, "says Soren Primdal and pointing to the empty floor space. The finished fuel cell stacks are sent to end-on to the running and testing. Since they are used in internal projects, or sold to customers and partners. - This is not much to plant yet, "said Soren Primdal and shrugged. - But it's really not that advanced technology is needed. What is difficult is to get the pieces work together, to get a flow with minimal losses and cash transactions. But 2014, we put together all the pieces of the puzzle, then the production of a car factory. A full-scale factory costing one billion Danish kroner. The investment decisions will be taken in two years. Then Haldor Topsoe 98 years. |
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