Storage: Linde Develops Ionic Compressor for More Efficient Compressed Hydrogen Storage VIENNA – Large-volume storage of compressed hydrogen gas is likely to become simpler, cheaper, more efficient and less maintenance-intensive with the development of a so-called ionic compressor at an r&d center operated here by Linde Gas, the industrial gas company.
Maine Gov. Baldacci Inaugurates Chewonki Foundation’s New Hydrogen System WISCASSET, ME – Hydrogen and fuel cell energy came to Maine at the end of last month with the dedication and unveiling of a solar electrolytic system capable of providing four days worth of backup electric power for an 11,000 sq. foot building.
U-Minnesota Launches Wind-to-Hydrogen-to-Fertilizer Project MINNEAPOLIS, MN - The University of Minnesota expects to start work soon on a fertilizer-producing system that would convert wind energy via hydrogen into ammonia. The traditional way of making ammonia - NH3 - is to use hydrogen, produced from increasingly expensive natural gas, and react it with nitrogen extracted from the air. Now, the university’s West Central Research and Outreach Center (WCROC) near Morris, will scale up a system in which wind, plentiful in the Great Plains, will drive wind turbines that will generate electricity which in turn will be used to electrolyze water to make the hydrogen.
Briefly Noted: Wind Power Milestone Wind power in the United States reached a new milestone with a grand total of more than 10,000 MW installed capacity. Texas now leads all other states in wind-generated electricity with a total of 2,370 MW capacity installed.
Briefly Noted: Shell/Ohio State Shell Hydrogen, Houston, TX has awarded a $1 million research project to Ohio State University’s chemical and biomolecular engineering department to research carbon dioxide-hydrogen membrane separation.
Briefly Noted: NHA Employment Site The National Hydrogen Association (NHA) has set up a new employment website, the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Job Board.
Briefly Noted: Hydrogenics Hybrid Effort Canadian fuel cell systems designer Hydrogenics Corp., Mississauga, ON has joined the Plug-In Hybrid Development Consortium with an eye of bringing fuel cells to plug-in vehicles.
Briefly Noted: Giner/CERDEC Giner Electrochemical Systems LLC (GES), a joint venture of Giner, Inc. and General Motors, has been awarded a $830,000 contract to develop a 250 W field ruggedized direct methanol fuel cell by the U.S. Army’s Communications Electronics Research Development & Engineering Center.
Briefly Noted: HotModule for France What seems to be one of the first multi-residential fuel cell cogeneration plants in France is scheduled to come on stream this fall in Paris.
Briefly Noted: H2 ECOnomy Test Systems Yerevan, Armenia-based H2 ECOnomy, a fuel cell technologies developer in the country’s Ararat Valley, says it is now offering new fuel cell test systems.
Briefly Noted: Hydrogen Engine Center Hydrogen Engine Center (HEC), the Algona, IA-based maker of hydrogen internal combustion engines, says it has started production and delivery of its new near-zero emission line of engines.
Events STEP (Sustainable Transport Energy Perth) is organizing a “Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Alternative Energies Conference” Sept. 10-13 at the Burswood International Resort, Western Australia. Details: STEP Conference Secretariat, PO Box 1248, West Perth, WA 6874; phone: 08/9322 6906, fax 08/9322 1734; e-mail STEP@congresswest.com.au.
