SBIR/STTR Research Award
Membraneless Microchannel Fuel Cells
Award amount
$749,985Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- INI POWER SYSTEMS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2004-08-31
- Contract end date
- 2005-08-31
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- ARMY03-T10
Research abstract
Fuel cross-over still remains one of the major technical obstacles in the commercializaion of direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs). The objective of this Phase II STTR proposal is to take advantage of multi-stream parallel laminar flow within microchannels to elminate fuel crossover within a laminar flow fuel cell (LFFC). LFFC performance is expected to outpace tradional PEM-based DMFCs and provide a viable alternative portable power source for portable electronic devices.
Technology keywords
Not reported