GEC Alsthom, a joint venture of Britain“s GEC and France“s Alcatel Alsthomis to join a government funded programme to develop advanced fuel cells. The programme is under the auspices of the UK“s De…
GEC Alsthom, a joint venture of Britain“s GEC and France“s Alcatel Alsthomis to join a government funded programme to develop advanced fuel cells. The programme is under the auspices of the UK“s Department of Trade and Industry and will focus on the development of planar solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). The planar design SOFC is being developed by several organizations around the world. GEC Alsthom will be working with companies attempting to develop gas-tight enclosures for planar stacks of SOFCs. It will be working on glass-ceramics that can be used for supporting both single and multiple cells and for the containment and ducting of stacked arrays of cells. GEC Alsthom has also announced that it has developed a transparent glass-ceramic armour for the UK Defence Ministry. It said in a statement that the glass-ceramic armour developed at its Engineering Research Centre in Stafford, UK, offered more resistance to “ballistic penetration” than glass armours. “The material called TRANSARM is particularly suitable as “light armour“ for civil and military applications and finds applications in fixed installations and vehicles,” it said.