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JUNE 24, 2010

DHL Supply Chain and London Stansted Airport recently signed agreements to participate in Hydrogen On Site Trials (HOST) of ITM Power’s transportable high pressure hydrogen refuelling unit (HFuel). Hydrogen Refuelling Station (HFuel) is a self-contained module suitable for refuelling hydrogen-powered road vehicles and forklift trucks.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

The US Fuel Cell Council (USFCC) and the National Hydrogen Association (NHA) are merging to form the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association (FCHEA) to accelerate the commercialization of fuel cell and hydrogen energy technologies. The issues affecting the fuel cell and hydrogen industries are inevitably linked.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2010

The roles for hydrogen and fuel cells in the energy mix. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released a draft version of the Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Plan, which outlines the strategy, activities, and plans of DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program. Improve the performance and reduce the cost of hydrogen storage systems.

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DECEMBER 2, 2009

has supplied hydrogen refueling technology and key hydrogen infrastructure equipment for the Shell Hydrogen public re-fueling station in New York City, located at the entrance to John F. Hydrogen sensors and safety systems including automated continuous monitoring. Tags: Brief. Kennedy International Airport.

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OCTOBER 3, 2010

Technip has been awarded two lump sum contracts by Valero Refining Company and Diamond Shamrock Refining Company (both part of the Valero group) for two hydrogen plants at their refineries in Memphis, Tennessee and McKee, Texas. The two 30-million standard cubic feet per day hydrogen plants will produce high purity hydrogen and export steam.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

announced that its Heartland Hydrogen Pipeline in Alberta, Canada has been commercialized and is supplying customers linked to the 30-mile pipeline with product. Hydrogen is a major feedstock for bitumen upgrading. The result is a hydrogen pipeline that is able to meet the current and future needs of multiple industries in the area.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

M&M), one of India’s leading automotive majors, showcased its hydrogen-fueled combustion engine Alfa 3-wheeler, the Hy-Alfa, at the World Hydrogen Technologies Convention 2009 ( WHTC-2009 ) held in New Delhi last week. Tags: Brief. Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M), M&M first introduced the Hy-Alfa in January 2006.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2010

Concept of the Hydrogen Harvester. a developer of technologies for algae cultivation and extraction ( earlier post ), says it is developing a new technology to harvest hydrogen from living photosynthetic algae, providing an additional energy source from bioreactors. Click to enlarge. Brian Goodall. Brian Goodall.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

million grant to develop the state’s second hydrogen production-fueling station. The station, to be located near Bicentennial House on Mileground Road, will be the northern terminus of a “hydrogen highway” between Yeager Airport in Charleston and Morgantown. The facility will produce the hydrogen via electrolysis.

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JULY 3, 2009

Researchers at Ohio University have developed a new technology that accomplishes the direct conversion of urine and urea to pure hydrogen via electrochemical oxidation with an inexpensive nickel catalyst. Hydrogen production from urine. Botte suggests that the technology could scale-up to produce hydrogen while cleaning up wastewater.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

is implementing a new alternative fuel platform to use hydrogen fuel cells to power the plant’s material handling equipment. Hydrogen fuel cell-powered forklifts, tuggers and stackers will be used in BMW’s new assembly hall that produces the new BMW X3 Sports Activity Vehicle. Tags: Brief. BMW Manufacturing Co.

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OCTOBER 13, 2010

Air Products plans to construct a new 180-mile long pipeline connecting its existing Louisiana and Texas hydrogen pipeline systems, creating the world’s largest hydrogen plant and pipeline supply network. The new Gulf Coast hydrogen pipeline network is expected to be operational in mid-2012. Tags: Brief.

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million in 2021 Targeted Airshed Grant (TAG) funding from the U.S. First Element Fuel (FEF), the largest hydrogen-refueling station operator in the U.S., Hyundai Motor Company has secured $3.5 Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) to deploy five XCIENT Fuel Cell electric trucks in California.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2010

Linc Energy’s Chief Executive Officer Peter Bond said his company’s exclusive agreement with UK-based AFC Energy for application with UCG and the delivery of an Alpha Unit Hydrogen Fuel Cell to the Chinchilla facility had been completed. Tags: Brief.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Researchers from Tokyo City University and the National Traffic Safety and Environment Lab in Japan are developing a multi-cylinder direct-injection spark-ignition (DISI) hydrogen internal combustion engine (ICE) for application in heavy-duty vehicles. Engine performance curves showing hydrogen DISI ICE and the base diesel.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

Hydrogenics GmbH, the German operating unit of Hydrogenics, has been awarded a contract by Germany’s national research center for aeronautics and space (DLR) to supply a series of next-generation fuel cell modules for aircraft power applications. —Daryl Wilson, Hydrogenics President and CEO. Tags: Brief.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Air Products’ joint venture company based in Sichuan, China has signed a long-term agreement to build a hydrogen production facility for PetroChina Company Limited, one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world. It is the first time that a state-owned refinery in China has outsourced its hydrogen requirements.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

New Holland will introduce the NH 2 hydrogen fuel cell-powered tractor in North America on 31 August at the 2010 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa. Farmers are in a unique position to benefit from hydrogen technology, the company states. Tags: Brief. New Holland’s NH 2 tractor. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 19, 2009

The national energy company of Greenland, Nukissiorfiit , has launched the H2KT project to establish a demonstration hydrogen and fuel cell plant in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, for storage of renewable energy. The H2KT-project will investigate the potential of using hydrogen and fuel cells as energy storage in Greenland.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Left, global light-duty fleet in the electric-favoring case; right, the hydrogen-favoring case. In both electric- and hydrogen-favoring cases, availability of low-carbon electricity and hydrogen prolonged the use of petroleum-fueled ICE vehicles. Top, without CCS and CSP; bottom, with CCS and CSP. Credit: ACS, Wallington et al.

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JUNE 7, 2010

Linde has contracted with Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) in California to supply the ionic compression hydrogen fueling technology ( earlier post ) and the hydrogen for two new refueling stations, which will be located at AC Transit's Emeryville and Oakland operating divisions. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

The California South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) has issued a request for proposals for an operator for the hydrogen filling station in Burbank, California. The US Department of Energy (DOE) originally contracted BP to install a hydrogen station in Burbank. Lake Street, Burbank, California. Meet SB 1505 requirements.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2010

A study by a team at the University Putra Malaysia concluded that the gasification of empty fruit bunch (EFB), a waste of the palm oil industry, could, if scaled up, produce hydrogen at a supply cost of $2.11/kg The US Department of Energy (DOE) 2015 cost target for hydrogen is $2.00-$3.00/kg Tags: Brief. kg EFB ($2.11/kg

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JUNE 16, 2010

A sustainable and reversible energy storage cycle based on hydrogen storage in, and release from, formic acid. A team of researchers in Germany report on the first light-driven, iron-based catalytic system for hydrogen generation from formic acid in a paper published online 15 June in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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DECEMBER 22, 2009

Egypt-based Pharos Marine unveiled plans for a 60-meter dual-fuel hydrogen-diesel electric superyacht, the Orcageno. The propulsion system uses a generator driven by a hydrogen-diesel internal combustion engine which can be operated by either hydrogen or diesel oil to provide power for the Azipod units. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2010

Hydrogenics Corporation and Rosetti Marino S.p.A., an Italy-based provider of engineering and construction services and technology for the oil and gas industry, will jointly design , develop and commercialize utility-scale hydrogen power plants for peak shaving and energy management. —Daryl Wilson, Hydrogenics President and CEO.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

The first hydrogen plant for renewable energy storage in Greenland has been inaugurated. The plant is a test system which shall help provide suggestions for how hydrogen can be used for future renewable energy storage in the country. This way the hydrogen functions as a battery that stores energy for later use whenever needed.

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JULY 13, 2010

One of the hydrogen engine assemblies is placed off to the right. The Boeing Company unveiled the hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system, a demonstrator that will stay aloft at 65,000 feet for up to four days, with ten planned for a future larger version. Tags: Aviation Engines Hydrogen. Source: Boeing.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2009

A coalition of 16 national hydrogen associations from around the world recently issued a joint statement addressed to Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change, asserting that hydrogen technologies could help to curb global greenhouse gas emissions. China: China Association for Hydrogen Energy.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2010

CTE) has completed and delivered two hydrogen-powered utility vehicles to the US Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Logistics Agency ( DLA ). Initial testing has demonstrated the hydrogen views have a range of more than 300 miles, representing an increase by almost a factor of 10 compared to standard electric cart vehicles.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Air Products is supplying hydrogen to power a fleet of more than 50 hydrogen fuel cell buses in operation at the Asian Games and Asian Para Games from 12 November – 19 December in Guangzhou City, China. Air Products is also providing liquid nitrogen for use at the hydrogen fueling station. Tags: Brief.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Air Products recently announced a long-term hydrogen supply contract with ExxonMobil’s (Esso) Rotterdam refinery in The Netherlands and will build a new world-scale hydrogen production plant to serve that refinery and additional customers in the region, including Shell. Tags: Brief. Both projects are to come on-stream in 2010.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

Mazda Motor Corporation delivered one Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid vehicle ( earlier post ) to the Yamaguchi prefectural government in western Japan. Mazda’s Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid features a unique hybrid system and a hydrogen rotary engine (RE) that burns hydrogen as a fuel. Tags: Brief. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The Olympic Delivery Authority has granted planning permission for a hydrogen refuelling facility to be built in east London—a major milestone in bringing a fleet of five hydrogen fuel cell buses into service. will supply the hydrogen buses, working with fuel cell supplier Ballard and Wrightbus who manufacture the bodywork.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Because hydrogen can penetrate and embrittle some metals and alloys, developing standards for using existing pipelines, storage tanks, pumps and delivery systems is an essential first step before the elemental gas can be considered as a viable fuel for widespread use.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The UK University of Birmingham’s Fuel Cell Group and Ontario’s Hydrogen Village recently signed a collaboration agreement that will result in the exchange of researchers and academics and will facilitate commercial relationships with the Province of Ontario and West Midlands’ companies. Tags: Brief.

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DECEMBER 18, 2009

In cooperation with eight partners, scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are working on the development of highly efficient methods for hydrogen production from microalgae. The KIT’s microalgae research group will be responsible for developing an optically structured photobioreactor for the production of hydrogen.

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