The future scope of the aviation fuel cell system application

Abstract

The fuel cell is being developed as the future promising ecological energy sources for the ground transportation applications and the terrestrial power plan t applications. The fuel cell technology has the very attractive features including the higher efficiency capability and the potential higher cost effectiveness compared with the conventional energy sources. The Boeing, Airbus and JAXA have studied the aviation fuel cell applications which are introduced here. PEFC and SOFC technologies are estimated to be applied to the electric power system of the future airplanes.