Fuel cell systems for biomass have to meet at least two outstanding challenges:
1. Fuel cell materials and the gas cleaning technologies have to treat high dust loads of the fuel gas and gas pollutants like tars alkalines and heavy metals.
2. The system integration has to allow efficiencies of at least 40 – 50 percent even within a power range of few tens or hundreds of kW in order to achieve the cost targets of 0.05 €/kW.
The BioCellus project addresses in particular these two aims – the investigation of the pollutants impact on the fuel cell and the development and demonstration of an integrated fuel cell system which meets the special requirements of biofuels.
