Originally published January 31 2005
Multinational project will work to develop advanced hydrogen technologies
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
A three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy is funding an ambitious effort by British and Canadian firms to develop and demonstrate a hydrogen generation and delivery system that would be suitable for industrial use, vehicle fueling, and electrical power generation plants. The companies plan to integrate their individual technologies to create an efficient and effective hydrogen refinery.
A multinational project will attempt to develop an advanced hydrogen generation and delivery system for industrial users, vehicles and stationary/mobile power plants.
Under a three-year, US$3.8m grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE), UK company BOC will join forces with the Canadian-based Membrane Reactor Technologies (MRT) and HERA Hydrogen Storage Systems to develop and demonstrate such a system.
The project is part of a $75m DOE research effort in support of the US president's Hydrogen Fuel Initiative to stimulate research and development of hydrogen production and delivery technologies.
The BOC plan is to integrate MRT's membrane reactor and HERA's thermal hydride compression into a single package.
The membrane reactor process developed by MRT combines the reforming of hydrocarbons, shift conversion and the purification of hydrogen in one simple, cost-effective step.
The system achieves higher yields of pure hydrogen than conventional reformers, delivers high-purity hydrogen, and scales from small laboratory sizes to large industrial applications.
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