Royal Institute of Technlogy, KTH, Applied electrochemistry
The KTH staff includes more than 230 able Professors and the majority of these are also
heading their own research teams.
In the Department of Electrochemistry 30 people work with basic research in batteries and fuel
cells from fundamental research up to the level of early prototypes.
Basic research on several type of fuel cells
Hydrogen and fuel cell related research include:
- Low temperature PEMFC
- High temperature PEMFC
- Molten Carbonate fuel cells, MCFC
- And to a lower extent Solid Oxide fuel cells. SOFC
l cell applications are studied for Combined Heat and Power, CHP and urban buses.
Reformers
Hydrogen and fuel cell related research include:
- Automotive diesel reformers to a quality level suited for PEM fuel cells. Diesel is one of the most demanding fuels to reform and PEM fuel cell are the most demanding fuel cells regarding hydrogen purity. Thus can the knowledge from this research be used for most reforming challenges in the fuel cell world.
- Plasma assisted reformers
Biomass gasification
Hydrogen and fuel cell related research include:
- Gassification of biomass to clean hydrogen rich synthesis gas
- Gassification of biomass to synthetic natural gas
- Capture of sulphur in gasifier bed
- Detection of volatile organic compounds in produced gas
- Reduction of volatile organic compounds in produced gas by futher reforming
