achieved
using
as a hydrogen
a sodium
two patents
covering
The diffusion
its ampoule
ampoules
a MicroFuelCell creating
borohydride
ampoule
fuel source. The company
has filed
fueling
system.
are a clean way to power
without
breaking
seals
LIPA to install Plug units at commercial locations The Long Island Power Authority begin installation
Manhattan Scientific5 Inc, OlympicTower, 641
customer
this summer.
$3.6 million contract
Aprilia SpA, Via Galilei 1, I-30033 Noale
(VE). Italy. Tel: +39 41 582 9111, Fax: +39 41 582 9753,
5 kWe
connected
PEM
providing
two
Direct
hotels owned by Starwood Worldwide, PPL
install, fuel
Edison
breaking
own
and
cell power Hotel,
at the at the
Center.
Ground-
is scheduled
this summer,
with
by the end of the year.
each
and domestic
hotel.
With
cial application State
New
Jersey
will
provide
commer-
Parsippany
fuel cell, while
Gas will provide
natural
NUI
for
to PPL in support
Program
$1.7
projects
fuel will
million
of these projects,
to be awarded
is being provided under
fuel
cells will
be inter-
at selected
providing
electricity
LIPA customer
of these natural
and
locations.
gas fueled systems will
of the integration
of fuel cells at
in one
funding.
install
systems,
three
operating
5 kWe
DC
backup
on hydrogen,
power
at facilities
on
offer
LIPA also will expand
systems
operation
to the electric grid at its West Babylon through with
introduction
increased
Deployment
of Plug’s
2002
at the site will support
ment
of fuel cell integration electric
of Plug Power
life and
unit
utility
of fuel cells
design
stationary
continued
assess-
into
the existing
grid and development
of remote
dispatch
capability
for distributed
power sources.
Contact:
Long Island Power Authority, 333 Earle
system
residential
(cl0
USA. Tel: +l 516 222 7700, Fax: +l 516 222 9137,
nm3/h
Or contact:
Plug Power Inc. 968 Albany-Shaker Road,
The HyRadix
PPL EnergyPlus, 2 North Ninth Street,
to produce up to 500 hydrogen
fuel processor
for manu-
and hydrogen heat
has prototype Canada
employs
UOP with based
scheme
that
use. HyRadix
as applied
to systems
pressure
for small-scale
adsorption
to
needed
generation
for industrial
swing
technology
puts
currently in the US,
Its hydrogen
of pure hydrogen
achieve
use, (PSA)
the
high
in such applications.
will be the majority
Sud-Chemie
It also employs
in field-testing
Europe.
purity
state-of-the-art
purity.
recovery
units
and
uses proprietary
that delivers
process heat to optimum
Latham, NY 12110, USA.Tel: +l 518 782 7700,
owner
of HyRadix,
Inc, a subsidiary
of Munich-
Sud-Chcmie
AG,
holding
a minority
interest.
New generation of FCATS test systems Hydrogenics
Contact:
(tollfree in US), Fax: +I 847 391 2596, www.hyradix.com
has launched its next-generation industrial-
grade systems for testing and optimization fuel cells and fuel cell stacks
-
The new generation
the
of
14th
S-Series
for single
large
active
high
flow testing
four series: the
cell testing,
area cell testing,
the L-Series the H-Series
step ahead of fuel cell developers’
Allentown, PA 18101, USA.Tel: +l 610 774 6866,
R&D programs
Fax: +I 610 774 5106, www.pplenergyplus.com
CEO
Pierre
for
at the California
Fuel Cell Partnership
West Sacramento,
marking
for us to be one needs as their
advance,’ commented Rivard.
This
year
CaFCP
of
three
of
has
for
planned
in
the arrival of the for
FCV
to take place by 2003.
The
already
hydrogen-fueled expects
president/
a number
second
demonstrations
up to 100 kW.
‘It has always been important
fueling station
fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) has entered operation
for
up to 48 kW, and the XH-
Series for high flow testing
Methanol fueling station opened at CaFCP The very first methanol
in 1995.
comprises
HyRadix Inc. 175 West Oakton Street, Des
Plaines, IL 60018-l 834, USA. Tel: 1 800 848 4330
since it began development
Fax: +I 203 825 6100, www.fce.com
to
for use in
kWe) and small commercial
technology
an innovative
Fax: +l 518 782 9060, www.plugpower.com
generation of this test equipment product line
FuelCell Energy Inc, 3 Great Pasture Road,
designed
facturing and fueling station applications.
product
the US. Plans are
Danbury, CT 06813, USA. Tel: +l 203 825 6000,
is currently
of high-purity
separation
www.lipower.org
for
kWe) PEM fuel cells. HyRadix is also
generation
Ovington Boulevard, Suite 403, Uniondale, NY 11553,
Inc in
company,
Inc, to supply fuel processors
efficiency
throughout
in New York and Connecticut.
a new
stationary fuel cells. The HyRadiiTM hydrogen
process
functionality.
Starwood
Or contact:
HyRadix
and Sud-Chemie
formed
(lo-100
source.
fuel cells at other
also in the works for three fuel cells at Starwood
UOP
have
adapting the technology
generation
of installing
Contact:
Kentucky
Long Island. This will allow an initial assessment
PPL the possibility
locations
Illinois-based
of file1 cells as a backup
2002 FCATSTM line of automated,
are part of an agree-
ment Star-wood and PPL signed that would
locations
supply fuel processors
will
the
Elizabethtown
Energy
approximately
The two Sheraton
gas
Gas
gas for the Edison
cell. The New Jersey Clean
of its first projects
Natural
natural
on Long
for this new
energy
is an excellent
Company
funding
needs for
of FCE’s DFC power plants.
utilities
be providing
for
about 25%
hot water
controls,
Contact: Hydrogenics Corporation, 5985 McLaughlin
technology,
its round-the-clock
needs, the hotel industry
plants
to be used
heat and power, providing
of the power
to begin
the fuel cell power
fuel cells are expected
combined
one
plant
coming The
an
and another
Raritan
for both projects
online
signed
operate
advanced
convert natural gas into hydrogen
substation
Parsippany
Sheraton
(DFC@)
Hotels & Resorts
have
safety,
and diagnostics.
generation
Starwood
DFC
Sheraton
are
at New Jersey
Hotels
automation,
software
the point of need. By the end of 2002, LIPA also
one of the largest hotel operators.
to
250 kWe
PPL Energy
locations
Funding
mode,
enable evaluation
connected
and
agreement
heat on-site Operation
Corporation,
FuelCell@
and
to LIPA’s grid and operate in combined
heat and power
FCE power plants for Sheraton hotels in NJ
(LIPA) will
LIPA’s Clean Energy Initiative (CEI). The
www.aprilia.com
power plants for installation
to the testing
Road, Mississauga, Ontario L5R 188, Canada.Tel: +I 905
Island
of PPL
added
361 3660, Fax: +l 905 361 3626, www.hydrogenics.com
and municipal
Plus, a subsidiary
been
ation fuel cell systems at several commercial
Fifth Avenue, Suite 36F, New York, NY 10022, USA. Tel: +I
FuelCell Energy and its partner
have
of I7 Plug Power cogener-
212 752 0505, Fax: +I 212 752 0077, www.mhtx.com Or contact:
advances
FCATS systems. These relate to dynamic
and
messy fluid circulation.
Contact:
significant
been
fuels
demonstrating
vehicles at its facility,
to demonstrate
a cleaner
form
and of
gasoline fuel by 2003.
A
w
Fuel Cells Bulletin
June 2002