FCE power plants for Sheraton hotels in NJ

FCE power plants for Sheraton hotels in NJ

achieved using as a hydrogen a sodium two patents covering The diffusion its ampoule ampoules a MicroFuelCell creating borohydride ampoule ...

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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