fuel cell material News
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Ballard Sees Positive Developments in Clean Energy Fuel Cell Material Handling Market
Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP)(TSX: BLD) congratulates Plug Power on its recent announcement of a strategic investment from Air Liquide. Plug Power is the leader in providing fuel cell systems in material handling applications with their flagship product GenDriveTM, each powered by a Ballard fuel cell stack. Plug Power customers in grocery, retail, warehousing and manufacturing ...
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Nrel teams with industry to validate methanol fuel cell technology
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is collaborating with Oorja Protonics of Fremont, Calif., on a two-year project to deploy and demonstrate methanol fuel cells for power pallet jacks, a kind of forklift, in four commercial wholesale distribution centers. The total cost of the project is just over $2 million; NREL will contribute $900,000 to fund ...
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NREL and General Motors Announce R&D Partnership to Reduce Cost of Automotive Fuel Cells
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and General Motors (GM) are partnering on a multiyear, multimillion dollar joint effort to accelerate the reduction of automotive fuel cell stack costs through fuel cell material and manufacturing research and development (R&D). Most major automakers, including GM, have made significant progress in the development of ...
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Alfa Chemistry Materials Launches High Quality Perovskite Materials for Optoelectronic and Photovoltaic Research
In a recent statement, Alfa Chemistry Materials announces to have launched a comprehensive line of high quality perovskite materials, which emerged as the most promising and efficient low-cost energy materials in various optoelectronic and photovoltaic researches and are currently in urgent demand. Ever since the Russian scientist Gustav Rose found perovskite, a mineral composed of calcium ...
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Alfa Chemistry Materials Launches Alternative Energy Materials for Renewable Energy Technology Development
Efficient collection and storage of renewable forms of energy, such as solar radiation or wind, requires the development of advanced functional materials. To better meet the increasing demand for such functional materials, Alfa Chemistry Materials, a chemical vendor headquartered in New York, USA, announced to provide a broad varieties of alternative energy materials for research groups or ...
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Hydrogen Conference at EEW Pittsburgh
Mountain States Hydrogen Business Council to organize hydrogen energy conference at Energy & Environment Week in Pittsburgh on April 13-15, 2010 in association with Freesen & Partner GmbH The Mountain States Hydrogen Business Council, a non-profit trade association, is pleased to accept the invitation of Freesen & Partner GmbH to develop and conduct the hydrogen energy conference at ...
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Soaring gas prices make hydrogen cars attractive
Untitled Document Hydrogen Expo USA shows market-ready solutions 09-April-2005 – A revolutionary thing that went almost unnoticed happened at the Hydrogen Expo USA technology showcase in Washington, DC: for the first time a hydrogen-fueled vehicle was able to drive inside the exhibit hall. No anxious fire marshal, no safety concerns on behalf of the venue. While in the past ...
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NREL Scientist Named AAAS Fellow
David S. Ginley, a materials scientist at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, has been named a fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor accorded to at most 1 percent of the prestigious scientific society’s membership each year. AAAS cited Ginley for “distinguished contributions in renewable energy and ...
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UK closed-loop fuel cell component recycling is a step closer
Advanced techniques for recovering a high-value polymer from fuel cell membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) has brought closed-loop recycling of these components a step closer, according to Axion Consulting. The Manchester-based resource recovery specialist developed the process in the collaborative RECOVER R&D project with fuel cell components supplier Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells ...
By Axion Group
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Pioneering project develops new process to recycle fuel cell components
A pioneering recycling process to recover high-value materials from waste fuel cells has been developed in a collaborative project between resource recovery specialist Axion Consulting, Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells Limited and Technical Fibre Products (TFP). Funded by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, the objective of the Recover project is to establish the technical and economic ...
By Axion Group
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Hydrogen refuelling station at NPL
A planning application has been submitted for a new hydrogen storage and vehicle refuelling system at NPL, as part of a project backed by the Mayor of London to demonstrate hydrogen fuel cell cars. An article in Materials World by Nabil Zahlan, head of the Graphene Special Interest Group, outlines the path to commercialisation for graphene and the role NPL can play. NPL Huddersfield helped the ...
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Alfa Chemistry Materials Launches Fuel Cell Catalysts for Renewable Energy Industry
The past decade has seen strong growth in the global renewable energy sector. The application of more renewable energy can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and diversify energy supplies. In response to the boom of green energy industries, Alfa Chemistry Materials decided to introduce a new product line of fuel cell catalysts, which are indispensable to the manufacturing of fuel cells. Fuel cell ...
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Ballard Signs Long-Term Engineering Services Contract To Advance Volkswagen AG Fuel Cell Automotive Research Program
Expected contract value of C$60-100 million VANCOUVER, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP)(TSX: BLD) has announced signing of an agreement with Volkswagen Group (www.volkswagenag.com) for a major Engineering Services contract to advance development of fuel cells for use in powering demonstration cars in Volkswagen's fuel cell automotive research program. The ...
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New materials improve oxygen catalysis
Original story at MIT News MIT researchers have found a new family of materials that provides the best-ever performance in a reaction called oxygen evolution, a key requirement for energy storage and delivery systems such as advanced fuel cells and lithium-air batteries. The materials, called double perovskites, are a variant of a mineral that exists in abundance in the Earth’s crust. ...
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