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Air Products supplies mobile hydrogen fuelling to California lab

February 21, 2011

Air Products has supplied a mobile hydrogen fuelling system to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, to power hydrogen shuttle buses to transport people around the laboratory site. The laboratory does research into hydrogen technology, and wants to remind people about what the hydrogen research is achieving. The shuttle bus is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Fuel Cell Technologies Program. source: The hydrogen journal

Shell to develop coal gasification technology in China

February 21, 2011

Shell Global Solutions International B.V. (Shell) and Wison Engineering Ltd. (Wison) announced their agreement to jointly develop a new, low-cost “hybrid” gasification technology demonstration plant in China, to collaborate in the technology’s future design and marketing, and to extend future cooperation to other coal gasification technologies. This co-operation plays on Shell’s expertise in gasification and energy technologies, as well as Wison’s strong experience in project design and engineering. The hybrid gasifiers promise to further expand the market for syngas – the main product of the gasification process – into the chemicals, hydrogen and fertilizer industries. source: Shell

Air Products new hydrogen facility on Middletown Ohio

February 21, 2011

Air Products announced it will build, own, and operate a new air separation unit (ASU), a new hydrogen production facility and will make additional investment in an existing ASU and liquefier which has been producing industrial gases in Middletown, Ohio. The new facilities, planned to be on-stream in the fourth quarter of 2012, will provide additional capacity to meet customer demand for industrial gases and merchant liquid products in the region. The new facilities will replace some smaller existing operations at this location to meet the increased demand for both on-site and merchant industrial gas products. The new ASU will have production capacity of over 700 tons per day of combined pipeline and merchant oxygen output, and total argon capacity for the site will increase. Air Products will also generate hydrogen at Middletown to meet customer requirements with its PRISM® Hydrogen Generator steam methane reformer (SMR) producing over one million cubic feet per day of hydrogen. source: Air Products

Conference: Sustainable Energy Storage 2011

21 Feb - 24 Feb, 2011

The IC-SES is an International Conference on Sustainable Energy Storage which will take place from 21 – 24 February 2011 in the Europa Hotel, Belfast, UK. The conference will provide a forum for researchers to present original work, exchange ideas and develop new ideas on energy storage and infrastructure planning for energy storage in the future. It is expected that the conference will be attended by up to 300 participants, from regional and international institutions including universities, businesses and innovation companies specialising in this field. Approximately 80 papers will be selected for presentation in three parallel sessions which take place over 4 days of the conference from Monday 21 February 2011. For more information see: IC-SES

Hyundai new FCEV – 403 mile range

February 18, 2011

- Hyundai has revealed its next generation fuel cell vehicle, the Tucson ix, which has a total range between refuelling of 403 miles, compared to 230 miles with the previous version. This means that the range is now equivalent to a gasoline vehicle. It achieves this range by storing hydrogen at 700 bar. The previous generation, the Tucson, stored hydrogen at 350 bar. The 700 bar fuel tank can store 5.6 kg of compressed hydrogen, compared to 3.5kg with the previous version.  The new version also has a 21 kW battery for short term energy storage, whereas the previous version had a 100 kW super capacitor. It was first exhibited at the Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy 2011 event in Washington, DC on February 14-16. The “gasoline equivalent fuel efficiency” is calculated to be more than 70 miles per gallon, a 15-percent improvement over the previous version. The overall volume of the fuel cell system was reduced by 20 per cent by modularising the fuel cell stack, balance of plant (BOP), inverter and high voltage junction box. Hyundai will test 50 Tucson ix FCEVs throughout 2011, with a view to making a limited supply available in 2012 and mass production in [...]

Video Featuring WaterstofNet purchase of Hydrogenics fuelling station (In Dutch)

February 18, 2011

Click on link below to view a short video featuring WaterstofNet’s new collaboration with Hydrogenics. WaterstofNet koopt tankstation bij Hydrogenics (WaterstofNet purchases refuelling station from Hydrogenics)

HyER (formerly HyRaMP) Hosts a Workshop broadening the HyER (formerly HyRaMP) Partnership to Electromobility

16 Feb - 16 Feb, 2011

February 16th 2011 marked the the first workshop on the broadening the HyER (formerly HyRaMP) partnership to electromobility. In total there were over 32 participants representing around 20 different European Regions and Municipalities. Presentations were given by the HyER (formerly HyRaMP) board, officials from the European Commission as well as from representatives of Stuttgart, Germany; Amsterdam and Rotterdam, The Netherlands; and North East England, UK. Each presentation gave insight on the activities in the region dealing with Electromobility. Presentations may be found in the downloads section of this post.

HyPROFESSIONALS Kickoff

February 16, 2011

HyPROFESSIONALS project, funded by the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking,  is focused on the development of educational programmes and training initiatives for technical professionals to secure the required mid- and long-term availability of human resources capable to properly operate the technologies safely.
The project kickoff took place Tuesday February 15th.  The projects 9 partner organisations coming from 8 different European countries came together in a collaborative effort to define the ambitions of the project and give the overall impetus to the project’s activities.

EHA is the dissemination partner for HyPROFESSIONALS.

McPhy Energy signs contract with Enel Group for solid hydrogen storage

February 16, 2011

McPhy Energy has announced that the company has signed a contract with the Enel Group, Italy for the supply of a solid hydrogen storage solution. The system has a capacity of 2 kilograms of solid hydrogen, stored in the form of magnesium hydrides (which do not require compression), offering an innovative solution for safe, reversible hydrogen storage, with energy efficiency.

A prototype of the system design was validated through a series of tests at the CEA-LITEN (the French national Laboratory of Innovation for New Energy Technologies and Nanomaterials in Grenoble, France).

The test tank was coupled to an electrolyser and to a fuel cell, successfully demonstrating the storage of renewable energy.

Air Liquide in the U.S. to power Coca-Cola hydrogen forklift fleet at California facility

February 16, 2011

Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP (Air Liquide) will supply hydrogen to power a fleet of 37 forklift vehicles at Coca-Cola’s bottling and distribution center in San Leandro, California. Air Liquide will provide the liquid hydrogen, filling station and infrastructure to power the forklift fleet at Coca-Cola’s 250,000 square foot facility. Hydrogen fuel cell powered forklift trucks represent a segment of the hydrogen energy market. These types of vehicles are virtually greenhouse gas emissions free. Using these vehicles can help the Coca-Cola save 1.6 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually by removing the infrastructure associated with traditional lead-acid batteries. This agreement is Air Liquide’s second hydrogen fueling installation of this type in North America that combines the hydrogen supply and refilling of Air Liquide with Plug Power’s GenDrive® fuel cell solution. The first such agreement was Air Liquide’s forklift installation at Walmart Canada’s sustainable distribution center in Alberta, Canada. In 2010, Air Liquide has provided more than 40,000 hydrogen fills worldwide. The company has a number of other filling installations in North America, including those for buses and other vehicles. Air Liquide provided hydrogen and filling infrastructure for transit buses at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Other hydrogen partnerships are arising all over the world: Air Liquide [...]