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Siemens Energy, FFI and GeoPura developing prototype ammonia cracker to produce hydrogen

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million) ammonia cracker prototype designed to produce green hydrogen at industrial scale. The system will be designed to deliver high-purity hydrogen, suitable for PEM fuel cell use, using FFI’s Metal Membrane Technology (MMT) purification process. The ammonia is stored, before being used for electricity generation.

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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

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This stretch, called Iris, will link Iceland to Ireland. The world’s largest pumped-energy-storage station—a technique that stores energy by pumping it uphill to a reservoir—is set to complete phase two of its construction in 2023. China's Big Hydro Plans China is in the midst of a gigantic buildup of hydro-energy capabilities.

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BT Group Converts Telecom Infrastructure to EV Chargers

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The company has announced a pilot project to retrofit street cabinets traditionally used to store broadband Internet and telephone cabling. BT Group says more cabinets in Scotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland will be repurposed in the coming months—as many as 600 such conversions by the end of 2024.

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Fusion Fuel Green partners with CCC to develop green hydrogen demonstrator plants in Middle East

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Ireland-based electrolyzer company Fusion Fuel Green PLC will collaborate with Consolidated Contractors Group S.A.L. It has been specifically designed to be small, lightweight and possible to be mass produced. CCC is a globally diversified company specializing in Engineering and Construction.

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QUB spin-out to commercialize to technique for production of MOFs; storage for natural gas vehicles

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Chemists at Queen’s University Belfast (Ireland) have devised a novel environmentally friendly technique which allows the rapid production of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). MOFs have the highest surface-areas of any known materials; this incredibly high surface area means that MOFs are very good at storing gases. Pichon et al.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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Allan Alcorn, shown here in 2011, designed Pong as an exercise, to learn about how to design video games. The game was actually created as part of a training exercise to get a young engineer named. Hundreds of thousands of Pong sets were distributed through the department store Sears. vonguard/Wikipedia.

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Profile: Li-ion Battery and Pack Supplier Valence Technology

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Founded in 1989, and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Valence has facilities in Nevada, China and Northern Ireland. ISO/TS 16949 is the quality management system created by the International Organization of Standards to monitor the design, development, production and servicing of automotive components. gallon in January 2009.

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