Ceres Power Limited

To reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in line with International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulatory net zero milestones towards 2050 requires step changes in technology and fuels, and won't be achieved through incremental improvements. Ship owners are facing a number of technology options, but must consider these in the context of performance and f...

The cruise industry is a major industry and success story for the UK, with more than 2 million passengers embarking and disembarking through the Port of Southampton alone. This traffic supports more than 14000 jobs in the Solent region and contributes over £1.3 billion to the UK economy. However, when vessels are in port, cruise ships continue to use dies...

Ceramic bodies, such as those found in steel cell Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC's), are produced by sintering green parts at high temperatures. This project looks to assess and demonstrate the use of Field Enhanced Sintering (FES) technology as a process to improve the productivity of SOFC manufacture. FES is the application of electric fields to ceramics ...

"The Government's recently announced UK plan for tackling roadside nitrogen dioxide concentrations focuses on delivering cleaner air in the shortest time possible that will enable the UK to become a global leader in air quality. The forthcoming Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill will drive necessary infrastructure changes to support rapid update of elec...

Increasing the efficiency of energy from waste schemes has been a long-term goal for the sector, especially for advanced thermal treatments (ATTs) such as gasification. Despite ATTs being more efficient than mass burn, there are only a limited number of ATT plants in the UK as the efficiency gains are often to low to overcome high capex/opex costs. We bel...

This project will bring together Ceres Power’s unique solid oxide fuel cell (“SteelCell”) technology, Smart Power Solutions’ high-efficiency power electronics systems, as well as the expertise of a global OEM, to develop a micro Combined Heat and Power product for residential markets. Success will deliver a system design integrated with significant UK tec...

This collaborative industrial R&D project with Nissan UK, Ceres Power and M-Solv aims to demostrate a compact, high power density, low emission SOFC battery charger for range extension of light commercial electrical vehicles (LCEV) such as the Nissan eNV200. This will involve the design, build, test and demonstration of a compact, robust, fast-response SO...

Ceres Power will use this project to explore and evaluate the technical feasibility of performing internal reforming (IR) of hydrocarbon fuel directly within its metal supported solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), the Steel Cell, which operates at 500-600°C, well below the accepted IR range used in high temperature SOFC (720°C). Exploitation of IR provides an o...

To develop tools to optimise processing of materials involved in the production of the products throughout the manufacturing process through the use of predictive modelling capabilities.

This collaborative industrial R&D project aims to apply high speed photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing capability developed by DEK in the UK, to Ceres Power's metal supported SOFC high value manufacturing process. This project reduces process time and waste (cost) in 2 of the key deposition and heating processes used for Ceres' Steel Cell electrolyte system. ...

To embed thermal and fluid dynamics expertise to engineer solutions to optimize fuel cell module temperature control and thermal management.