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First fuel cell in Augsburg

Stadtwerke Augsburg have taken the convention center, a fuel cell in operation, in order to gain technical experience.

By source: Information Service of the Bavarian Energy Forum, November 2013

Although the technique is not new, fuel cells are insufficiently used in buildings. "We are here at the beginning of development and want to test in Congress at the park use in the home technology," Dr Claus Gebhardt, Managing Director of Stadtwerke Augsburg. Was only said in May 2012, the former Congress Hall in the 1970s, after two years of reconstruction reopened -. equipped with an all new heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, regulated by state control the investment of 6.5 million euros actuated the city works with the Augsburg operation GmbH signed a contracting agreement with 15 years have agreed term. "Through the energy management of public utilities and by the transformation of the energy consumption could be reduced by 70 percent," reads from Augsburg.

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The fuel cell in the congress center complements the existing CHP plant
Image: Stadtwerke Augsburg

The energy concept in addition to a natural gas cogeneration unit with 50 kW of electrical and 90 kW thermal power and a 33-kW photovoltaic system includes the natural gas-powered fuel cell cogeneration plant. With 1.5 kW electrical and 0.6 kW thermal power produced in the Heinberg near Aachen micro-CHP is BlueGen according to the manufacturer Ceramic Fuel Cells for the supply of residential buildings, public institutions and small businesses with electricity and heat. The electrical efficiency is given up to 60 percent, the overall efficiency with a maximum of 85 percent. In Augsburg Convention on the park should festoxidkeramische fuel cell the size of a refrigerator 13 000 kWh of electricity per year, and 4300 kWh of heat, equivalent to deploy about 200 liters of hot water per day. "The ratio of generated electricity to heat is not designed for normal household," said Karl-Heinz Viets, Project Manager at Stadtwerke Augsburg. Moreover, the price of 25 000 euros reindeer is not for domestic use. "For us important to be able to test the system for use in building technology, "said Viets.

For more information:
www.sw-augsburg.de
www.ceramicfuelcells.de


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