Fuel cell

1. Reg. No. T16EE010
Vulisi Narendra Kumar
M. Tech
Department of Electrical Engineering
NIT Meghalaya
BLOOM ENERGY

2. Contents
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 INTRODUCTION
 TIMELINE OF BLOOM ENERGY
 TECHNICAL CONCLUSION
 ENERGY SERVERARCHITECTURE
 ECONOMIC COMPARISON
 BENEFITS AND APPLICATIONS
 CONCLUSION

3. INTRODUCTION
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 In today’s expanding global economy ,the needs for
sustainable is energy more pressing than ever.
 The electricity used in US mostly came from non-
renewable fossil fuels.
 First the use of fossil fuel in electricity production
produce harm full emission such as CO2 and other
green house gases in air.

4. INTRODUCTION
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 The new sustainable energy should be looked at to this crisis
as they can be used to eliminate these usage of fossil fuels or
eventually reuse them completely.

5. TIMELINE OF BLOOM ENERGY
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-Sunnyvale , California.
-Dr. K R. Sridhar.
-2001.
Location
Founder
Year

6. TIMELINE OF BLOOM ENERGY
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 This machine was designed to take fuel and electricity
to produce oxygen.
 But by reversing the process the process it could be
provided with fuel and oxygen to produce electricity.
 Thus sriram initially named Ion America but later in
2006 renamed as Bloom Energy.
 The company focused on solid oxide fuel cell
development.

7. TECHNICAL CONCLUSION
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Fig. 1: Fuel cell technology.
 For decades, experts have agreed that solid oxide fuel
cells (SOFCs) hold the greatest potential of any fuel cell
technology. With low-cost ceramic materials and
extremely high electrical efficiencies, solid oxide fuel
cells (SOFCs) can deliver attractive economics.

8. TECHNICAL CONCLUSION
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𝐂𝐇 𝟒 + 𝟐𝐎 𝟐 → 𝐂𝐎 𝟐 + 𝟐𝐇 𝟐 𝐎 + 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 + 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐭 (1)
Fig. 2: Chemical Reaction inside the Bloom server.

9. ENERGY SERVERARCHITECTURE
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 Each Energy Server consists of thousands of Bloom's
fuel cells as shown in Fig. 3.
Fig. 3: Energy server architecture.

10. ENERGY SERVERARCHITECTURE
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Fig. 4: Energy server.
This modular server architecture offers.
 Easy and fast deployment.
 Inherent redundancy for fault tolerance.
 High availability (one power module can be serviced
while all others continue to operate).
 Mobility.

11. ECONOMIC COMPARISON
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 Bloom delivers enhanced sustainability benefits in many
ways: high efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions
reductions, avoided air pollutants, small physical
footprint and reduced water use.
TABLE I: Comparison of water usage.

12. BENEFITS AND APPLICATIONS
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Fig. 4: Comparison of Carbon emissions for power plants.
 Bloom Energy is dedicated to making clean, reliable energy
affordable for everyone in the world.

13. BENEFITS AND APPLICATIONS
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 Today, Energy Server technology is deployed by
leading companies across a broad range of
industry segments.

14. CONCLUSION
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 Bloom Energy is a Distributed Generation and energy
solution that is clean and reliable and affordable all at
the same time. Bloom's Energy Servers can produce
clean energy 24 hours per day, 365 days per year,
generating more electrons than intermittent solutions,
and delivering faster payback and greater
environmental benefits for the customer

15. References
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1. ‘Tech Pioneers Who Will Change Your Life’, Time
Magazine, no. 2009-12-17, 24 February 2010.
2. "Bloom Box: What is it and how does it work?",
Christian Science Monitor, 22 February 2010.
3. Mobilemag.com, ‘Bloom Energy Server unveiled, Bloom
Box not for the home just yet’, 2013. [online]. Available:
http:// Mobilemag.com. [Accessed: 24-aug-2017].
4. Goldenberg, Suzanne, ‘Bloom Box fuel cell launch’.
London: The Guardian, 2010.

16. References
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5. ‘Industry leading companies choose Bloom Electrons for
immediate cost savings and carbon reduction benefits’
(PDF) (Press release), Bloom Energy, 20 January 2011.
6. Schmit, Julie, ‘Clean, cheap power from fuel cells in a
box?’, USA Today, 2010.
7. ‘The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough?’, 60 Minutes,
February 21, 2010.
8. Subhash C. Singhal, Kevin Kendall, “High-temperature
solid oxide fuel cells: fundamentals, design, and
applications”, Elsevier, p. 10, 2003.

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