Fuel cells utilised to produce electricity from process industry by-product hydrogen

Reducing energy consumption in sodium chlorate production by 10–20%VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a pilot-scale power plant based on fuel cells that utilises by-product hydrogen from the process industry. The power plant has been in operation at Kemira Chemicals Oy’s site in Finland since January 2014. The system produces electricity from hydrogen generated as a by-product of a sodium chlorate process at a high electric efficiency and is the first of its kind in the Nordic Countries.When scaled into commercial size, the equipment enables the reduction of energy