Fuel cell technologies
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Fuel cells are used to produce electricity. They are considered a promising technology to replace conventional combustion engines in vehicles. Fuel cells may also replace batteries in portable electronic equipment. The most widely used types of fuel cells for mobile devices are Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cells (PEM FC) which are often used in vehicles, and Direct Methanol fuel cells, used in portable applications. PEM fuel cells use hydrogen or certain alcohols such as methanol as fuel.
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Hybrid technology systems combine two or more technologies with the aim to achieve efficient systems. Possible combinations are: wind-solar photovoltaic (PV) hybrid systems, wind-diesel hybrid systems, fuel cell-gas turbine hybrid systems, wind-fuel cell hybrid systems, etc. (see the short descriptions below). Hybrid systems combine numerous electricity production and storage units to meet the energy demands of a given facility or community (Solar Energy Technologies Program, 2006).
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This article discusses a recycling process that is specially dedicated to portable lithium-ion batteries that combines a mechanical pretreatment with hydro- and pyrometallurgical process steps. The recovery of cobalt and of all other battery components, especially lithium, was of interest. Besides the characterisation and evaluation of all generated metallic material fractions, the focus of the research was the development of a pyrometallurgical process step in an electric arc furnace for the carbo-reductive melting of the fine fraction extracted from spent lithium-ion batteries.
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The Hindu. By Sujatha Byravan
In order to have a chance of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, we need suitable technologies to make low-carbon transitions in development right away.
Now that the Paris Conference of the Parties (COP) meet is long over, countries need to concentrate on global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which need to peak soon and go to zero by mid-century if there is to be a chance of preventing average temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above the level of pre-industrial times.
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Type of National planObjectiveMitigationSectorsCountrySenegal
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Type of National planObjectiveMitigationSectorsCountryMali
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Type of National planObjectiveMitigationSectorsCountryMoldova
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Type of National planObjectiveMitigationSectorsCountryLebanon