Gas cell forum „f-cell “: Light at the end of the tunnel

In California the strict environmental legislation of governor Arnold Schwarzenegger gives tail wind to the hydrogen and gas cell technology. Business guide Catherine Dunwoody presented successes its California Fuel Cell Partnership. (openPR) - the market moves closer: That showed the of this year „f-cell “. Approximately 600 participants and visitor came to the congress and to the fair for producers as well as users of the gas cell. International agreement in the energy policy: „The gas cell must come. We create the political basic conditions for it. “the European Union wants to force multinational Demonstrationsprojekte. On the fair the offerers of portable gas cell devices convinced. Scientific institutes presented a multiplicity of innovations, which bring to the goal, simple, durable the gas cell and more inexpensive, a piece more near. Manufacturers of plants for the house power supply announced: „Starting from 2010 Brennstoff¬zellen heaters go into series. “

Stuttgart (eos) 04 October 2006 - „the end of the oil age came irrevocablly. First sign a global change be already painful noticeable “, stress Baden-Wuerttemberg Secretary of the Environment Tanja sponsor to prelude the of this year forum „f-cell “to 25. and 26. September 2006 in Stuttgart house the economy. „In the next ten to twenty years still the possibility exists of preventing an irreversible temperature rise afterwards is the time window too “, reminded the minister. „We must use energy substantially better than so far. We can do that with the gas cell - one of the most efficient Energiewandler. “The country supported the development and introduction on the market of gas cell systems so far with 50 million euro and also in the future further means will make available.

Common „Roadmap “

Also the federation recognized hydrogen and gas cells as key technology of the future and invests. With additional 500 million euro the government supports this range in the next ten years. The industry - in such a way the condition reads - is to supply again the same amount. „This billion are to contribute to it the bridging between research & development and introduction on the market create, “said Dr. Georg Menzen of the Ministry for economics and technology, Bonn. An important task of the policy sees Menzen thereby in the presentation of the process. The 2005 in the life called strategy advice hydrogen and gas cell is to compile a common „Roadmap “and to promote the exchange between politics, industry and science both on national, as well as on international level.

Efforts strengthen

Dr. Franz Xaver mercenary of general you acct advice energy and transport of the European Komission in Brussels stressed that regarding the energy policy large agreement because of Europe prevails: „There is necessary large efforts, in order to secure our supply to protect the environment and remain competitive. “With it the union sets also on the gas cell: „We need still more lighthouse projects like for example the Brennstoff¬zellen Busprojekte CUTE and HyFleet: CUTE. We get convincing practice data only in such a way, “said mercenaries. In the period of 2002 to 2006 the European Union already invested over 280 million euro in research & development as well as field test. With the development of an integrated strategy now „the European hydrogen and gas cells technology platform are “entrusted. For the conversion in the future „the common technology should be responsible initiative (GTI) “; an enterprise in public-private partnership, which decides due to long-term plans on the conveyance assignment, bundles and to the introduction on the market aligns demo projects.

Global think, regionally act

Also with the European Union widths co-operation it is not done: „Single-handed attempts are not zielfüh¬rend. We must think the topic global “, said Takehiko Kato, president that inter+left corporation, Tokyo. Catherine Dunwoody, which leads the business the California Fuel Cell Partnership from Sacramento, pflichtete it: „Our union from 31 enterprises, universities as well as national institutions is international. Together we operate 23 hydrogen refueling systems for nine penalty and 137 passenger cars. That is world-wide unique. “

Transport enterprises would like H2-Busse

„We see light at the end of the tunnel. The technology becomes constantly better “, said Jamie Levin of the AC transit Agency, a bus enterprise also over 2.000 coworkers and 650 vehicles in Oakland, the USA, which tests hydrogen and gas cell penalty since 1999 in practice. The motivation of the enterprise: „We want to contribute to the healthy attitude of our population and improve the air quality. “Are suitable and also to noise avoidance the nearly noiseless gas cell penalty. Only problem: „Our bus drivers do not mer¬ken frequently that the gas cell still runs and forgets to turn them off. “

„In the USA it concerns always first air pollution control, if of hydrogen and Brennstoff¬zellen the speech is “, found a professor Dr. Werner Tillmetz, director/conductor of the center for Sonnen¬energie and hydrogen research in Ulm and member of the strategy advice hydrogen and gas cell. In Europe against it is no priority reason for investments in gas cells, although the same problems with bad air and high Feinstaub¬werten would be present here. „We lamentieren - those act “, summarized it its impression. But also in Europe develop for pressure in the market: „Many transporting enterprises want to buy gas cell penalty. That will accelerate the introduction on the market. “

The market moves closer

„F-cell the “fair with 50 exhibitors offered technology for touching. For example the metallic-green „Ulmer current box “the Ulmer gas cell Manufaktur GmbH (UBzM). „Plug and play “reads the foreign exchange: Wasserstoff-Flasche attach, employ and already has the integrated plug socket „juice “. Thus lamp or hair dryer can be supplied fast and network-independent for example on the camping site with river. In addition, the Ulmer current box is appropriate for larger applications. It carries out 500 Watts in „the small “version and in the large even a kilowatt. „Our Energiever¬sorgung in a rolling branch bank found your perhaps most spectacular employment. For safety reasons the current supply had to be network-independent “, reported Klaus stone-hard of the UBzM.
A further application is dependent on network-independent river, presented the community of interests hydrogen IGH2 from Hürth: The riksha, which already is in Cologne in the Ein¬satz, has an auxiliary engine, which is propelled by a gas cell. „It connects automatically, if stepping becomes toilsome “, avowed Boris Jermer of the IGH2 „f-cell “- of the Testfahrerin, Secretary of the Environment Tanja sponsor. „With a conventional battery the engine drives to only two hours. With the Wasserstoff-Flasche against it 30 hours. “

New projects with the DLR

Research institutes and component developers showed likewise exciting innovations on „f-cell “- the fair. Thus the German center for air and space travel (DLR) developed now a plant for the coating of the electrolyte diaphragm of a gas cell with the necessary catalyst. The conventional spraying technology provided for expensive Overspray. The new equipment against it resembles a small printing machine and applies the catalyst, e.g. valuable platinum, only, where it is actually used. A further novelty of the DLR is a test equipment for low-temperature gas cells. The test unit looks like a conventional bipolar plate and into the gas cell is accordingly inserted. It makes it possible to measure and make on the computer screen the rivers in the cell visible during the enterprise. „We throw thereby a view into the cell, during them work “, said Erich Gülzow of the DLR in Stuttgart enthusiastically. „Informs to us important about the aging process of gas cells. If we understood, we know also the life span of the cells - which increase today still too low actual. “In addition the new test system could be used, where a possible loss of the gas cell must be promptly recognized: „If a gas cell system for example for the Stromver¬sorgung on board airplane is responsible avowed Gülzow, needs we with threatening loss an early warning, to “.

Gas cells in the robot

Mobile robots could guard for example industrial plants or suck areas. Conventional batteries and Akkus limit however the application duration of the mobile aids strongly. , Wissen¬schaftler found ideal a terrain for the use of gas cells with the Fraunhofer Institut for solar energy of systems, ISE, as well as their colleagues of the Fraunhofer Institut for intelligent analysis and information systems, IAIS. They developed a building block principle for a application-neutral robot, gas cell betrie¬benen „people-offered “. „It concerns thereby a pure platform, which can be ausge¬stattet as desired “, reported Thomas Wisspeintner of the Fraunhofer IAIS. The system for all applications, which require more than one day continuous operation, is economical. There are also already customers: „For the institute for Alfred way he for polar and exploration of the sea we reequip ours people-offered to the underwater robot. It will already take Sylt soil and water tests starting from December before the island. “

The gas cell in the house power supply

250,000 single family houses want to equip the manufacturers of gas cell heaters in the future. That is the market potential, explained Thomas's angle man, marketing manager at european fuel cell the GmbH (efc) in Hamburg. About 2010 would like to be enterprises - after the devices BETA and GAMMA - with a far improved plant into series production to enter. Other manufacturers would like to at this time likewise go into series.
„With the advancement of the gas cell pioneer work is to however still carry out “, meant Markus noble, manager Fuel Cellls at the EnBW selling and service company ltd. in Stuttgart, which tests the devices of efc and other offerers in the field test. Simplify, costs reduce, the life span to extend and maintenance costs reduce read the requirements of the practical man. But the estimate with the EnBW remains: „The gas cell is a key technology for the power supply of the future. We continue to develop also in the next years the number of our demonstration units. “The EnBW concerns an additional technological challenge in the fifth year of its field test with natural gas powered gas cells: the employment of fermentation gas. A medium sized gas cell plant equipped particularly for the enterprise with fermentation gas took up its enterprise with relevant support of the EnBW in October 2006 to Leonberg. Dr. Wolfram Münch, range leader research and development of the EnBW in Karlsruhe, reported additionally of straight agreed upon large-scale project together with Siemens: „Together we will develop an high-efficient gas cell hybrid power station. The demonstration unit of the megawatt class is to convert up to 70 per cent of the assigned fuel energy into river. “After the fundamental developments together with the virtual HGF Institut for hybrid power stations (consisting of the DLR institutes technical thermodynamics TT and burn technology VT as well as Institut for aviation drives ILA of the University of Stuttgart) and the building of a Pilotanlage the planned power station is to be built then starting from 2012 and taken in enterprise.

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Peter agency fair and congress GmbH is f-cell cleanly the supervisor that. Beyond that the agency from Gerlingen aligns numerous further fairs and exhibitions in bathing Württemberg like the fair e.g. builds, modernizes, lives in Donaueschingen, a specialized exhibition for building, technology and renewal in Sindelfingen, a fair for owners and Modernisierer in Stuttgart or also a congress for care of children than forum for enterprise, public hand, carrier.
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