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Progress in Chemistry 2006, Vol. 18 Issue (10): 1375-1380 Previous Articles   Next Articles

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Unitized Regenerative Fuel Cells

Shidong Song;Huamin Zhang*;Xiaoping Ma;Yining Zhang;Baolian Yi   

  1. Fuel Cell R&D Center, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
  • Received: Revised: Online: Published:
  • Contact: Huamin Zhang
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The unitized regenerative fuel cells (URFCs) are the most advanced regenerative fuel cells (RFCs) ,which use reversible PEM cells , where each cell is capable of operating both as a fuel cell and as an electrolysis cell .They are particularly very promising energy storage systems to replace traditional secondary batteries for space application since URFCs have distinctive advantages over secondary batteries in that they are long-term energy storage systems with extreme high specific energy and without permanent losses by self discharge and capacity limit. They are enabling for many weight-critical portable applications such as space and military energy storage and conversion systems , as well as remote (off-grid) power sources. In this paper , the recent progress of unitized regenerative fuel cells is introduced , and the issues need to be developed or solved are also put forward.
Key words: unitized regenerative fuel cells(URFCs), bi-functional oxygen electrodes, space power sources, PEMFC, SPE-WE

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Unitized Regenerative Fuel Cells