HydroGen Corp. Reaches Key Milestone in Commercialization of Its Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell Systems

Energy Resource, Dec 13, 2006

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HydroGen Corporation, a manufacturer of multi-megawatt air-cooled phosphoric acid fuel cell (PAFC) systems, today said it has completed its 2.5-kilowatt PAFC test facility and the successful operation of a 2.5-kilowatt fuel cell stack at full-rated capacity.

Reached in less than one week after the commissioning, the test facility replicates technology originally developed by Westinghouse Corporation and the Department of Energy (DOE) at a cost of approximately $150 million.

"The completion of this test facility and operation of this fuel cell stack represent two key operational milestones in the commercialization of our PAFC technology," said Dr. Leo Blomen, HydroGen Corporation's chairman and CEO. "This demonstration supports both our ongoing manufacturing and plant construction efforts and we are pleased with the operation and performance results."

The recently commissioned, pressurized test facility duplicates the operating conditions and control methods of the company's full-scale, 400-kilowatt demonstration and test plants currently under construction, as well as planned multi-megawatt systems based on standard 2 megawatt Power Islands.

The company said that reaching this "key milestone" means that no additional technological breakthroughs are necessary in order for HydroGen to deliver full-scale commercial demonstration plants during 2007.

HydroGen targets its air-cooled PAFC systems toward applications where under-utilized hydrogen is available to quickly become cost-competitive with grid-supplied electricity.

The company expects to reach one of its next significant milestones, the installation and operation of a 400-kW full-scale commercial demonstration power plant at ASHTA Chemicals Inc.'s chlor-alkali manufacturing plant in Ashtabula, Ohio, during 2007.

HydroGen manufactures multi-megawatt fuel cell systems utilizing its proprietary 400-kilowatt phosphoric acid fuel cell (PAFC) technology. Utilizing fuel cell technology originally developed by Westinghouse Corporation, HydroGen Corporation offers a multi-megawatt, zero-emission power generation product that supports the growth of industrial distributed energy.

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