European honor to Danish fuel cell research

The fuel cell technology is cleaner and more efficient when it comes to producing electricity. There are many types of fuel cells. Common to all of them is that they convert fuels into electricity. Fuel cells can be made in all sizes. A small fuel cell can provide power for a mobile phone. Fuel cells can also provide energy for cars and houses and even large power plants.

Risø DTU develops Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, (SOFCs) and is among the leading scientists in the world in this field. The work is conducted in cooperation with a number of Danish and international partners. ”Mogens Mogensen certainly deserves the honor, after many years of pioneering work developing SOFCs from an exciting idea to something that may become a new Danish industrial success like the wind turbine story” says DTU’s Rector Lars Pallesen.

The principle behind the fuel cell was discovered in 1839. However, it took a long time before the cells were put into practice. The medal of honor received by Mogens Mogensen is named after the Swiss chemist Christian Friedrich Schoenbein, who discovered the fuel cell effect in 1838.

The medal of honor was awarded to Mogens Mogensen at the 8th European Fuel Cell Forum in Lucerne in Switzerland. The medal is traditionally awarded every second year at meetings held by the European Fuel Cell Forum. Former famous recipients are among others Dr. Subhash Singhal, Battelle Fellow and Director of Fuel Cell Research at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the USA and Professor John Kilner, who is holding the BCH Steele Chair in Energy Materials, Department of Materials, Imperial College in London.