USC DMFCs

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Siemens to build Europe’s first ‘standard’ SOFC plant In Germany, E.ON

Stadtwerke

Energie

Hannover

AG have contracted

Power Generation

three phases

Siemens

100

Group to build a 250 kWe

SOFC plant at the Herrenhausen in Hannover.

AG and

The standardized

supplied

on a turnkey

operation

during 2003,

MWe

power plant

The

basis and ready for

plans

which claimed Later

the system

by Stadtwerke

Hannover,

160

about

kWth

Hannover’s million

plants’,

network.

cell

The

g5

fuel

PG.

capacity

production which

operations

before

commence

production

manufacturing

is

In

Pittsburgh,

scheduled

to

of more

systems

stream

currently

combined

to

has

and

initial

80%. to

with

a

the hot fuel

give

an

overall

500 kWe. nine

in operation

America

promising

than

- using -

than

kWe and a

will be extended

demonstration

or on order. It sees

Europe

markets

as for

the

most

SOFCs

in the fall of 2003.

in

power plant applications.

Westinghouse Power Corporation, 1310 Beulah Road,

will

Pittsburgh, PA 15235-5098, 2022, Fax: +I 412 256 1233,

in

www.pg.siemens.com/en/fuelcells

be expanded

the Direct Methanol

Corporation to

(DMFCC)

commercialize

the

DMFC

developed at the Nasa/Caltech Laboratory Southern

(JPL)

and

California

demonstrated

the

(USC).

DMFCs

Fuel Cell

has been established

future

technology University

previously

of

has already

in sizes ranging

from

alternative

DMFCC more

to acquire

than

including

the original and

Caltech shareholders sales.

and fundamental

dissolved USC

patents, patent

company formed from

and also the Ford on hydrogen

of ViaSpace

Technologies,

government

JPL

and

other

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and receive a royalty is actively

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FCT in deals with Border States Electric, NKK

3

3

Carbon-X

Smart Fuel Cell starts DMFC series production

4

Micro fuel cell developed

at LLNL

4

Technology Partnerships program

Canada,

US collaboration

DuPont 4

on Brazilian fuel cell

projects

4

Hydrogenics wins EC test system contract, demos military portable generator

5

Altair Nanotech

5

Sumitomo,

to start testing SOFC cores

Proton Energy for joint 6 EPAC-5ao portable

in DMFC electrode

unit

6

Mosaic Energy transferring market entry focus to Pacific Rim

6

Chrysalixventure adds BASF

7

capital partnership

Quantum IO ooo psi H, storage tank certified

7

FEATURES Developing micro-fuel communications

cells for wireless 8

which

was

technologies university

and

REGULARS In Brief

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Research Trends Patents

Contact: Dr Carl Kukkonen, Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corporation, Pasadena, California, USA. Tel: +l 626

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in 1998 to commercialize Caltech,

as an

fuel. DMFCC

2

for Space

in water as the fuel.

will

company

for

to 22 issued and

US and other

in DMFCC, The

a let-ter of intent

the rights

40 pending

for using methanol

on

Pasadena-based

have signed

expert

automotive

for its

is Dr Carl Kukkonen,

of JPL’s Center

Technology,

Company’s

partners

activities.

CEO

changes

Voltairis halves znd-generation stack volume

Breakthrough

and strategic

director

Microelectronics Motor

1 We to 1.4 kWe. The parties

investors

commercialization

The company’s

Jet Propulsion JPL

additional

management

H Power introduces

New company to commercialize CaltechlUSC DMFCs In California,

2

development

USA. Tel: +I 412 256

Its

2

Superior Propane joins Calgary-based SOFC alliance DCH remote power for Pennsylvania,

(cogeneration),

For more information, contact: Siemens

start

the end of this year, and to

capacity

cell

PG

began on a fuel

facility

Pennsylvania

Petrobras

250’ system

of 250

range

of more

stationary construction

UTC Fuel Cells in Nissan deal, PC25 for

growing

Siemens

and power

microturbine

exhaust

North

of

product

efficiency

plants worldwide

power

president

heat

overall

Siemens

for broad-

a rapidly

will be the ‘CHP

the product

include

for

of our SOFC

to Klaus Voges,

Last Septtmber, cell

generated

‘a milesrone

introduction

according

Siemens

heating

represents

based market

be

standard

downstream

and simultaneously

will

district

plant

will

grid operated

with

will have a capacity

Europe. mode

first

for combined

will be the first ‘close-

operating

year,

to market

to-series production’ fuel cell power plant in

In normal

per

NMfS

of more than

workforce.

system, to be

feed 225 kWe into the electrical

up to the production

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