Originally published July 29 2005
Scientists achieve hydrogen-powered vehicle
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Two Indian American scientists have successfully developed a three-wheeler for the road that runs on hydrogen power.
Working with the Michigan based Energy Conversion Devices (ECD), and supported by the U.S. DOE (Hydrogen Program), two Indian American scientists -- Krishna Sapru and Subramanian Ramachandran -- have achieved a significant breakthrough by developing a hydrogen-run three-wheeler for Indian roads.
The latest trial runs, conducted this year, resulted in the successful conversion of a CNG-run Bajaj three-wheeler (autorickshaw) into one run on hydrogen fuel.
In their report the authors state: 'The overall goal of this project is to demonstrate the potential for commercialization of a small, hydrogen fueled vehicle using ECD's proprietary metal hydride storage system as a fuel tank.
Two of the major components of the project have been (a) the conversion of a gasoline-powered scooter to run on hydrogen and (b) integration of the metal hydride hydrogen storage system into the hydrogen-ICE scooter.
The eventual goal is to fuel the vehicle with domestically produced renewable hydrogen...Our study has also shown that electrolytic hydrogen is viable for recharging the metal hydride tanks and the availability of cost-effective hydrogen in India (which we chose as a test case) is not a barrier.'
According to Fuel Cell Today, the achievement is one more step towards a global hydrogen economy, where India and China are expected to play key roles.
Her key inventions include: Development of high efficiency, non-precious metal electro-catalysts for water electrolysis and alkaline fuel cells; Metal Hydrides leading to the development of the nickel/metal hydride battery technology and hydrogen storage alloys systems; Design and construction of machines for novel alloy production.
Fuel cells combine oxygen and hydrogen through a process that uses a catalyst (usually platinum) to separate electrons from the hydrogen molecule (H2 2 electrons + 2 protons).
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