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The purpose of the Spanish Fuel Cells Association is to promote the scientific and technical development of this technology, to publicize its potential in national and international spheres and to provide training and information to interested social agents.

IBERCONAPPICE 2019, the Ibero-American Congress of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, will be held at the CIEMAT-Moncloa Campus, Complutense Avenue, 40 28040-Madrid, between October 23 and 25, 2019.

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Workshop on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells

martes, 19 marzo 2019

Jornada APPICE 27 Marzo 2019

Distributed energy: facilities for self-consumption based on Renewable, Hydrogen and Fuel Cells

Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Place: CIEMAT, Av. Complutense 40, 28040 Madrid

US Navy creates a superconductor that works at room temperature

lunes, 18 marzo 2019

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A scientist working for the US Navy has applied for a patent for a superconductor at room temperature, a potential paradigm shift in power transmission and computer systems.

A superconductor at room temperature is a material that is capable of exhibiting superconductivity – lossless energy transmission – at temperatures around 25 degrees Celsius. Current superconductors work when they cool near absolute zero, and the hottest superconductor, hydrogen sulfide, only works at -70 degrees Celsius.

Salvatore Cezar Pais is registered as the inventor in the United States Navy patent application made public on Thursday by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

The application states that a superconductor at room temperature can be constructed using a cable with an insulating core and an aluminum coating PZT (lead zirconate titanate) deposited by vacuum evaporation with a penetration depth thickness of London and polarized after the deposition.

An electromagnetic coil is placed circumferentially around the coating so that when the coil is activated with a pulsed current, a non-linear vibration is induced, allowing superconductivity at room temperature.

“This concept allows the transmission of electrical energy without losses and exhibits optimal thermal management (without heat dissipation),” according to the patent document, which leads to the design and development of new energy generation and collection devices with enormous benefits for the civilization.

High-powered fuel cell boosts electric-powered submersibles, drones

viernes, 15 marzo 2019

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The transportation industry is one of the largest consumers of energy in the U.S. economy with increasing demand to make it cleaner and more efficient. While more people are using electric cars, designing electric-powered planes, ships and submarines is much harder due to power and energy requirements.

A team of engineers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a high-power fuel cell that advances technology in this area. Led by Vijay Ramani, the Roma B. and Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished University Professor, the team has developed a direct borohydride fuel cell that operates at double the voltage of today’s commercial fuel cells.

This advancement using a unique pH-gradient-enabled microscale bipolar interface (PMBI), reported in Nature Energy Feb. 25, could power a variety of transportation modes – including unmanned underwater vehicles, drones and eventually electric aircraft – at significantly lower cost.

“The pH-gradient-enabled microscale bipolar interface is at the heart of this technology,” said Ramani, also professor of energy, environmental & chemical engineering. “It allows us to run this fuel cell with liquid reactants and products in submersibles, in which neutral buoyancy is critical, while also letting us apply it in higher-power applications such as drone flight.”

The fuel cell developed at Washington University uses an acidic electrolyte at one electrode and an alkaline electrolyte at the other electrode. Typically, the acid and alkali will quickly react when brought in contact with each other. Ramani said the key breakthrough is the PMBI, which is thinner than a strand of human hair. Using membrane technology developed at the McKelvey Engineering School, the PMBI can keep the acid and alkali from mixing, forming a sharp pH gradient and enabling the successful operation of this system.

“Previous attempts to achieve this kind of acid-alkali separation were not able to synthesize and fully characterize the pH gradient across the PMBI,” said Shrihari Sankarasubramanian, a research scientist on Ramani’s team. “Using a novel electrode design in conjunction with electroanalytical techniques, we were able to unequivocally show that the acid and alkali remain separated.”

A new ‘water fuel’ for hydrogen cars promises a range of 1,000 km between charges

jueves, 14 marzo 2019

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Electriq Global is a half-Australian, half-Israeli start-up (and financed by the Netanyahu government) that ensures it is ready to test in the Netherlands its solution to the big emissions problem in combustion cars: a fuel formed in a 60% for water.

Its objective is to have twice the yield, be 50% cheaper and 100% ecological, and also be included in the field of lithium-ion batteries or compressed hydrogen. Now ‘only’ needs to be made to work on a large scale.
First tests, in 2020

Through its partnership with the Dutch company Eleqtec, the water-based fuel of this start-up will begin its testing phase in the Netherlands in 2020. The company says it can run on a hydrogen car with a fuel cell, although it presents it as a solution for any type of vehicle in the future.

But how does it work? Electriq Global fuel, based on water, releases hydrogen by reacting with a catalyst – a salt chemical called BH4 – which is used to generate electricity and power the vehicle.

What they do not specify is how exactly they convert water into fuel, since this isolated element can not act as such because it does not contain chemical energy.

Hydrogen is presented as one of the main zero emission fuels for ports and cities

miércoles, 13 marzo 2019

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Hydrogen is consolidating itself more and more as a sustainable and competitive alternative to traditional fuels thanks to the advances and technological solutions developed during the last years. To explain the possibilities offered by this gas as a zero emission fuel in ports and cities, the Port of Barcelona and the Energy Research Institute of Catalonia (IREC) jointly organized the conference “Hydrogen in a Europe without emissions”.

The day, which was held at the Port of Barcelona, ??was inaugurated by its president, Mercè Conesa; and the Secretariat of Environment and Sustainability of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Marta Subirà.

Among the participants, the interventions of Albert Tarancón, ICREA professor and head of Nanoiònica y batteries de combustible of IREC stood out; Carlos Navas, Head of Strategy and Marketing of the FCH 2JU (Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking) of the European Union; Enrique Centeno, General Director of Corporate Affairs of Toyota, Fernando Palacín, Director of the Hydrogen Foundation of Aragón; Beatriz Ruiz, from the department of Innovation and New Energies of Enagas; Jordi Vila, Head of Environment of the Port of Barcelona; and Xavier Sabaté, Head of Environment Projects.

Strategic Framework of Energy and Climate: An opportunity for the modernization of the Spanish economy and the creation of employment.

lunes, 11 marzo 2019

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The Paris Agreement of 2015 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations mark the beginning of a sustainable global agenda that entails the transformation of the economic model and a new social contract of inclusive prosperity within the limits of the planet.

In response, the European Union has provided itself with a broad legal framework that will allow it to remain at the forefront of the transition and meet the objectives of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

In this context, the Strategic Energy and Climate Framework, presented by the Government, is an opportunity for the modernization of the Spanish economy, the creation of employment, the positioning of Spain’s leadership in the renewable energies and technologies that will dominate the next decade, the development of the rural environment, the improvement of the health of people and the environment, and social justice.

It facilitates a transformation of the Spanish economy in which the country will gain in prosperity, energy security, generation of industrial employment, innovation, health, technological development and social justice, accompanying the most vulnerable groups.

The framework guides the Spanish business fabric towards the place where the competitive advantages will be in the future: innovation and capacity to produce with greater efficiency and with a low or no environmental footprint, reinforcing the national and international competitiveness of our companies.

The key elements that make up this framework are: the preliminary draft of the Climate Change and Energy Transition Law, the Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC) 2021-2030, and the Just Transition Strategy. There are three essential pillars whose sum effect guarantees that Spain has a stable and accurate strategic framework for the decarbonisation of its economy; an efficient roadmap for the next decade, the 2021-2030 Plan, designed in coherence with the emissions neutrality we aspire to in 2050; and a strategy of solidary and just transition accompaniment, to ensure that people and territories take advantage of the opportunities of this transition and nobody is left behind.

Spain needs to position itself as soon as possible in the innovation, technologies, and the leading industry in a process of transformation that is already underway all over the world, with the objective of making the most of the opportunities it presents and that serves as a lever for the modernization and the progress of the country.

What workshops do you need to repair cars with a hydrogen battery?

viernes, 01 marzo 2019

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If finally the hydrogen battery ends up becoming a massively accepted propulsion mode, as an alternative to internal combustion engines and current hybrids, the workshops should start to equip themselves with the facilities and tools necessary to repair this type of vehicle. For this, they will have to take into account certain aspects, which recalls the Iberisa blog.

First, the workshop facilities must have adequate ventilation to safely and quickly dissipate loose hydrogen, which is extremely flammable.

We must also take into account that hydrogen is lighter than air, so the facilities to repair cars driven by this gas must have a ventilation on the top, without sources of ignition near it.

In general, the workshop repair area is an area where sparks may occur. If there is an elevator, the safety lock on the upper part of the lift must change the electrical to pneumatic switching.

The cost of adapting the workshop to carry out these works can be high. Therefore, some workshops that do not want, or can not, assume this investment, choose to carry out repairs abroad, since being outdoors, the dangers of the accumulation of hydrogen are eliminated. It is not the ideal solution, but it is always better than to repair in inadequate facilities.

The CNH2 of Puertollano continues its research work within the framework of the TOGETHER project

jueves, 28 febrero 2019

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The National Hydrogen Center (CNH2) continues its research work within the framework of the project “Trigeneration with GEoTermia, Hydrogen and Renewable Energies (TOGETHER)” within the call Challenges Collaboration of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

With the beginning of 2019 and within the framework of the project “Trigeneration with GEoTermia, Hydrogen and Renewable Energies (TOGETHER)” of the call Challenges Collaboration, a new work meeting has been held to share the progress made to date , as well as solving the problems detected to date among all the entities of the consortium, agreeing on the following activities to be undertaken in the short term.

The meeting took place at the CIEMAT (Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research), in Madrid, where a laboratory-demonstrator is available to carry out the relevant tests to obtain information on the generation of heat and electricity that the batteries of fuel they provide for residential purposes. Similarly, there is a laboratory-demonstrator located at CNH2 (National Hydrogen Center) in Puertollano (Ciudad Real) with a fuel cell micro-generation system where similar tests will be carried out to obtain the expected results.

This is the map that explains why in Japan and Germany the hydrogen car is a viable reality

miércoles, 27 febrero 2019

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Hydrogen is living at the same time as lithium ion batteries at the beginning: promising but with many obstacles ahead. Faced with great advantages such as fast charging and great autonomy, fuel cell-driven cars face their particular Goliath: infrastructure.

The German website H2stations has published a study that analyzes how the number of hydrogenerators is growing worldwide, and shows a clear winner: Japan, which is followed closely by Germany. Spoiler: in Spain there are only six.

Around the world there are 369 hydrogen stations, of which 273 are public access and can be used as any conventional retail station, while the rest are aimed at user groups that supply, for example, buses or fleet customers.

There are currently 152 hydrogen stations in operation in Europe, 136 in Asia and 78 in North America, but a simple glance at the map shows us how Europe concentrates a significant number compared to the rest of the continents.

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Did you know that Air Liquide, Idex, STEP and Toyota create HysetCo to promote mobility based on hydrogen?

martes, 12 marzo 2019

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Toyota joins Air Liquide, Idex and Société du Taxi Électrique Parisien (STEP) with the aim of achieving a clean mobility that allows to improve air quality.

Air Liquide, Idex, Société du Taxi Électrique Parisien (STEP) and Toyota have joined forces to promote the development of hydrogen-based mobility with a joint venture called HysetCo. It is the first in history dedicated to the development of mobility based on hydrogen in the Île-de-France region, in Paris.

This collaboration represents an unprecedented milestone in the promotion of a hydrogen-based society in France and in the development of Hype, the world’s first hydrogen-based, emission-free fleet. It is a project launched in 2015, during COP21 and that has fuel cell cabs in circulation in Paris and throughout the Île-de-France region.

HysetCo will facilitate the deployment of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and their charging infrastructure in the Île-de-France region to reach the goal of 600 taxis by the end of 2020. Toyota will supply another 500 Mirai before the end of 2020, to Complete the existing fleet of 100 Hype vehicles.

This joint venture covers two activities: the distribution of hydrogen and the development of applications related to mobility. Within that ecosystem, each collaborator contributes his own knowledge. The entity’s mission is to promote the transition of the sector towards the elimination of emissions, with the aim of having ‘Taxis / VTC without emissions for the Olympic Games of Paris 2024’.

Did you know that more flexible nanomaterials can boost fuel cells for cheaper hydrogen cars?

lunes, 25 febrero 2019

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Transportation is one of the most important human needs. Nowadays, in our civilization it is so vital that we depend totally on it, both to move and to transport our resources, be it water, food, or any other basic need.

For this reason, it is logical to think that the automotive industry seeks to develop technologies that allow a better performance. It is expected that in the near future this economic sector will benefit enormously from nanotechnology and nanomaterials.

Global expectations of lower emissions and fuel savings are creating huge demands for lightweight, durable and low-cost materials to replace expensive metals and compounds, and nanotechnology can help meet those demands.

Scientists led by Johns Hopkins University have developed a new method to increase the reactivity of ultra-thin nanosheets, with only a few atoms of thickness, an advance that can make fuel cells for hydrogen cars cheaper in the future.

The research, published in the journal Science, promises faster and cheaper production of electric power using fuel cells, and also chemicals and bulk materials such as hydrogen.

The new method focuses on finding the right amount, to evaluate how much metal would be required for the fuel cell electrodes. The technique uses the forces on the surface of a metal to identify the ideal thickness of the electrode.

“Each material experiences a tension on the surface due to the breakdown of the crystalline symmetry of the material at the atomic level. We discovered a way to make these crystals ultrafine, thus decreasing the distance between the atoms and increasing the reactivity of the material, “says Chao Wang, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Johns Hopkins University and one of the corresponding authors of the study.

Did you know that the port of Valencia will be the first in Europe to incorporate hydrogen energy?

martes, 12 febrero 2019

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The capital of the Turia was the scene on Tuesday of the first working meeting of “H2PORTS – Implementing Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Technologies in Ports”, a project aimed at implementing efficient solutions to reduce the environmental impact of operations developed in the port of Valencia. Thanks to this initiative, coordinated by the Valenciaport Foundation, in close collaboration with the Port Authority of Valencia, this enclave will become the first in Europe to incorporate hydrogen energy into its terminals.

H2PORTS, which has a total investment of four million euros and is financed by the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking program (FCH JU), is part of the energy strategy implemented in 2017 by Valenciaport, based on the use of hydrogen and of fuel cells as an alternative energy.

This first meeting, which was attended by the general director of the Valenciaport Foundation, Antonio Torregrosa, and the director of Environment and Security of the APV, Federico Torres, is the starting signal for the implementation of the use of hydrogen through pilot projects that will operate in real conditions in the port of Valencia and that will bridge the gap between prototypes and pre-commercial products. Specifically, three pilots will be tested that will operate in this dock: a container loading / unloading and transport reach stacker, powered by hydrogen; a terminal tractor for ro-ro operations, powered by hydrogen batteries, and a mobile hydrogen supply station that will provide the necessary fuel to guarantee the continuous work cycles of the aforementioned equipment and that in the initial phase of the project will work in the Grimaldi (Valencia Terminal Europa) and MSC terminals in the Port of Valencia.

Did you know that two engineers from Extremadura create a prototype that stores hydrogen to turn it into electricity at a very low cost?

viernes, 01 febrero 2019

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Two engineers from Extremadura have created a hydrogen generator that, through the decomposition of water, will allow low costs to store hydrogen to subsequently create electricity, increasing the clean energy available in homes.

Extremadura engineers Antonio Fioravanti and Jaime Casanova have built H2VIVO, a prototype that extracts hydrogen from water to convert it later into electricity. The prototype, with great efficiency and significantly lower costs than the other hydrogen generators, provides an advantage of energy and lower costs in homes.

The hydrogen generator, created by extrememos with the collaboration of two professors from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, uses the energy of solar panels to decompose water into hydrogen and oxygen. The purpose is to store hydrogen to create “a clean, safe and inexhaustible energy, through its transformation to combustion gas or electricity”, according to the researchers told Efe, and release oxygen to counteract greenhouse gases.

Did you know that they have discovered a way to cheapen hydrogen fuel cells?

jueves, 20 diciembre 2018

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There are many who think that the hydrogen car is really the future of the automotive industry, since they do not have the problems of recharging and autonomy of electric cars and, like them, do not emit CO2. But then why is there hardly one for sale in Spain, the Hyundai Nexo? Well, because they are terribly expensive (and there are hardly any hydrogenerators, but that’s another song).

Now a team of scientists at Brown University has developed a new catalyst that could make vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells cheaper. Based on nanoparticles made of an alloy of platinum and cobalt, the new catalyst is not only cheaper than pure platinum, but also promises to be more efficient and more durable.

With hydrogen fuel cells and adequate infrastructure, we would have cars as clean as electric cars (in direct emissions) and the freedom of conventional fossil fuels. Let’s try now to explain how functional.

Did you know that plastic waste can be converted into fuel for cars powered by hydrogen?

martes, 11 diciembre 2018

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Scientists at the University of Swansea study the transformation of plastics solar as a means to transform polymer waste into hydrogen. The second life of plastic waste begins on a sunny day.

The plastic waste could, in the not too distant future, fill the tanks of vehicles powered by hydrogen. The technology to make this possible already exists and has been developed by chemists at the University of Swansea in the United Kingdom. Scientists have developed a simple and efficient process to convert three common polymers into pure hydrogen.

The importance of this research -published in August in the journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) – was explained by Dr. Moritz Kuehnel in an interview with the BBC: the team managed to improve the photo-transformation technique of waste plastics It involves adding a solar absorbing material to the polymers, putting it in a solution and exposing it to sunlight to transform those molecules into other molecules. “The process – explains Kuehnel – produces hydrogen gas: it is possible to see the bubbles coming directly from the surface”.

Did you know that the new bipolar batteries will give electric cars 1,000 km of autonomy?

lunes, 03 diciembre 2018

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The EMBATT-goes-FAB project, in which Daimler participates, is developing bipolar batteries for electric vehicles based on lithium-ion technology, capable of achieving autonomy of up to a thousand kilometers.

With the aim of achieving batteries for electric vehicles with greater autonomy, the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy has created the EMBATT-goes-FAB project, in which four German companies and institutions participate: Daimler, Thyssenkrupp System Engineering, IAV and the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems. For two years, the four partners will develop bipolar batteries with greater storage capacity than the current ones. According to the developers, these battery cells applied to the electric car would be able to offer up to 1,000 kilometers of autonomy per charge.

Did you know that the world market for batteries and fuel cells already moves 5,500 million euros?

viernes, 16 noviembre 2018

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Intersolar and eeS Europe, the largest battery and accumulator energy show in Europe, have just announced that the photovoltaic and accumulator sector will present its production solutions and the latest manufacturing technologies in a specific pavilion in the 2019 edition of These two fairs. The organizers of the largest fair-congress-exhibition of the solar of the Old Continent estimate that “the world market for batteries and fuel cells, which already amounts to 5,500 million euros, will exceed in 2025 the 81,000 million euros”.

The analysts of the market – Intersolar informs – predict for 2018 a photovoltaic growth of around 100 gigawatts (GW), while it is expected that by 2025 the world market for batteries and fuel cells will exceed 81,000 million euros. “The important growth The industry association is also generating an increase in production.SolarPower Europe sector forecasts go even further SolarPower Europe calculates that more than 1,000 GW of photovoltaic power will be installed in five years The fast growth of electromobility is another factor that is also driving the battery market, well, in light of all these forecasts, coinciding, Intersolar and Europe ees have decided to give more prominence to the production techniques and in 2019 will dedicate, for the first time , a specific pavilion for this theme in these specialized energy fairs, between May 15 and 17, 2019.

“In Germany – Intersolar informs -, the battery accumulator market has tripled in the last three years and in August the 100,000th solar electricity accumulator was put into operation”. The demand for high-powered industrial accumulators is also growing: for example, in June a battery accumulator with a capacity of more than 50 megawatt-hours (MWh) was installed in Pelham (England) to provide network stabilization services. The Bloomberg New Energy Finance research institute predicts that the annual installations of fixed accumulators will experience a significant growth by 2030 and that a power of 125 gigawatts will be reached with a storage volume of 305 gigawatt-hours (GWh).

Did you know that Latin American scientists managed to produce electricity with coffee waste?

miércoles, 31 octubre 2018

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Behind every steaming cup of coffee there is a great environmental challenge: what to do with millions of tons of polluting waste. An Argentine scientist based in the United Kingdom and his Colombian colleague found a possible answer to the problem: transform coffee waste into electricity. These wastes have already been used to produce biofuels, but it is the first time they have been used to generate electricity.

The research is the product of the collaboration of Claudio Avignone Rossa, a professor at the University of Surrey, in England, with Lina Agudelo, from the University of Antioquia. Both say that using coffee waste to produce electricity could not only reduce the problem of pollution, but help financially to coffee farmers.

Did you know that solar hydrogen can be used to increase the autonomy of drones?

martes, 16 octubre 2018

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On October 1 a meeting of the Drongeno project was held, “Solar Hydrogen for Drones Autonomy”, at the Automation and Robotics Center of the Higher Council of Scientific Research, in Arganda del Rey (Madrid). The main objective of the project is the development of a power system for drone energy based on hydrogen that significantly increases its flight autonomy.

The generation of hydrogen will be carried out through the use of photovoltaic electricity generation from assisted electrolysis with organic compounds, thus reducing the contamination of current batteries and batteries due to PEM and alkaline electrolysis. In addition, a new drone will be designed that will incorporate a fuel cell and a lithium battery, combining both energy systems.

The Drongeno consortium is made up of the specialized company Dronak, the Institute of Concentrated Photovoltaic Systems (Isfoc), and the Center for Automation and Robotics of the CSIC, dedicated to R & D in control engineering, artificial vision and robotics. It also has the external collaboration of the consulting company Arosa I + D for the project management tasks.

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Hydrogen is presented as one of the main zero emission fuels for ports and cities

Hydrogen is consolidating itself more and more as a sustainable and competitive alternative to traditional fuels thanks to the advances and technological solutions developed during the last years. To explain the possibilities offered by this gas as a zero emission fuel in ports and cities, the Port of Barcelona and the Energy Research Institute of Catalonia (IREC) jointly organized the conference “Hydrogen in a Europe without emissions”.

The day, which was held at the Port of Barcelona, ??was inaugurated by its president, Mercè Conesa; and the Secretariat of Environment and Sustainability of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Marta Subirà.

Among the participants, the interventions of Albert Tarancón, ICREA professor and head of Nanoiònica y batteries de combustible of IREC stood out; Carlos Navas, Head of Strategy and Marketing of the FCH 2JU (Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking) of the European Union; Enrique Centeno, General Director of Corporate Affairs of Toyota, Fernando Palacín, Director of the Hydrogen Foundation of Aragón; Beatriz Ruiz, from the department of Innovation and New Energies of Enagas; Jordi Vila, Head of Environment of the Port of Barcelona; and Xavier Sabaté, Head of Environment Projects.

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A new ‘water fuel’ for hydrogen cars promises a range of 1,000 km between charges

Electriq Global is a half-Australian, half-Israeli start-up (and financed by the Netanyahu government) that ensures it is ready to test in the Netherlands its solution to the big emissions problem in combustion cars: a fuel formed in a 60% for water.

Its objective is to have twice the yield, be 50% cheaper and 100% ecological, and also be included in the field of lithium-ion batteries or compressed hydrogen. Now ‘only’ needs to be made to work on a large scale.
First tests, in 2020

Through its partnership with the Dutch company Eleqtec, the water-based fuel of this start-up will begin its testing phase in the Netherlands in 2020. The company says it can run on a hydrogen car with a fuel cell, although it presents it as a solution for any type of vehicle in the future.

But how does it work? Electriq Global fuel, based on water, releases hydrogen by reacting with a catalyst – a salt chemical called BH4 – which is used to generate electricity and power the vehicle.

What they do not specify is how exactly they convert water into fuel, since this isolated element can not act as such because it does not contain chemical energy.

High-powered-fuel-cell-boosts-electric-powered-submersibles-drones

High-powered fuel cell boosts electric-powered submersibles, drones

The transportation industry is one of the largest consumers of energy in the U.S. economy with increasing demand to make it cleaner and more efficient. While more people are using electric cars, designing electric-powered planes, ships and submarines is much harder due to power and energy requirements.

A team of engineers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a high-power fuel cell that advances technology in this area. Led by Vijay Ramani, the Roma B. and Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished University Professor, the team has developed a direct borohydride fuel cell that operates at double the voltage of today’s commercial fuel cells.

This advancement using a unique pH-gradient-enabled microscale bipolar interface (PMBI), reported in Nature Energy Feb. 25, could power a variety of transportation modes – including unmanned underwater vehicles, drones and eventually electric aircraft – at significantly lower cost.

“The pH-gradient-enabled microscale bipolar interface is at the heart of this technology,” said Ramani, also professor of energy, environmental & chemical engineering. “It allows us to run this fuel cell with liquid reactants and products in submersibles, in which neutral buoyancy is critical, while also letting us apply it in higher-power applications such as drone flight.”

The fuel cell developed at Washington University uses an acidic electrolyte at one electrode and an alkaline electrolyte at the other electrode. Typically, the acid and alkali will quickly react when brought in contact with each other. Ramani said the key breakthrough is the PMBI, which is thinner than a strand of human hair. Using membrane technology developed at the McKelvey Engineering School, the PMBI can keep the acid and alkali from mixing, forming a sharp pH gradient and enabling the successful operation of this system.

“Previous attempts to achieve this kind of acid-alkali separation were not able to synthesize and fully characterize the pH gradient across the PMBI,” said Shrihari Sankarasubramanian, a research scientist on Ramani’s team. “Using a novel electrode design in conjunction with electroanalytical techniques, we were able to unequivocally show that the acid and alkali remain separated.”

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US Navy creates a superconductor that works at room temperature

A scientist working for the US Navy has applied for a patent for a superconductor at room temperature, a potential paradigm shift in power transmission and computer systems.

A superconductor at room temperature is a material that is capable of exhibiting superconductivity – lossless energy transmission – at temperatures around 25 degrees Celsius. Current superconductors work when they cool near absolute zero, and the hottest superconductor, hydrogen sulfide, only works at -70 degrees Celsius.

Salvatore Cezar Pais is registered as the inventor in the United States Navy patent application made public on Thursday by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

The application states that a superconductor at room temperature can be constructed using a cable with an insulating core and an aluminum coating PZT (lead zirconate titanate) deposited by vacuum evaporation with a penetration depth thickness of London and polarized after the deposition.

An electromagnetic coil is placed circumferentially around the coating so that when the coil is activated with a pulsed current, a non-linear vibration is induced, allowing superconductivity at room temperature.

“This concept allows the transmission of electrical energy without losses and exhibits optimal thermal management (without heat dissipation),” according to the patent document, which leads to the design and development of new energy generation and collection devices with enormous benefits for the civilization.

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Did you know that Air Liquide, Idex, STEP and Toyota create HysetCo to promote mobility based on hydrogen?

Toyota joins Air Liquide, Idex and Société du Taxi Électrique Parisien (STEP) with the aim of achieving a clean mobility that allows to improve air quality.

Air Liquide, Idex, Société du Taxi Électrique Parisien (STEP) and Toyota have joined forces to promote the development of hydrogen-based mobility with a joint venture called HysetCo. It is the first in history dedicated to the development of mobility based on hydrogen in the Île-de-France region, in Paris.

This collaboration represents an unprecedented milestone in the promotion of a hydrogen-based society in France and in the development of Hype, the world’s first hydrogen-based, emission-free fleet. It is a project launched in 2015, during COP21 and that has fuel cell cabs in circulation in Paris and throughout the Île-de-France region.

HysetCo will facilitate the deployment of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and their charging infrastructure in the Île-de-France region to reach the goal of 600 taxis by the end of 2020. Toyota will supply another 500 Mirai before the end of 2020, to Complete the existing fleet of 100 Hype vehicles.

This joint venture covers two activities: the distribution of hydrogen and the development of applications related to mobility. Within that ecosystem, each collaborator contributes his own knowledge. The entity’s mission is to promote the transition of the sector towards the elimination of emissions, with the aim of having ‘Taxis / VTC without emissions for the Olympic Games of Paris 2024’.

Agenda

11-15 March 2019 Sitges (Spain)

Sixth International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid & Nanomaterial

12-13 March 2019 Technische Universität Braunschweig (Germany)

ModVal 2019, 16th Symposium on Modeling and Experimental Validation of Electrochemical Energy Technologies

12-14 March 2019 Düsseldorf (Germany)

Energy Storage Europe 2019 Expo & Conference

14-15 March 2019 Lisbon (Portugal)

Light Electric Vehicle Summit, LEVS 2019

19 March 2019 NEC, Birmingham (UK)

15th International Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Conference, Hydrogen & Fuel Cells-Powering the Future, CCSHFC2019

26-29 March 2019 Madrid (Spain)

ARIEMA Course on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells [in Spanish]

31 March-4 April 2019 New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)

AIChE 2019 Spring Meeting and 15th Global Congress on Process Safety, including Topical 5: Emerging Technologies in Clean Energy

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Fluid Physics Laboratory. Science Faculty; Department of Physical Mathematics and Fluids – UNED

martes, 15 mayo 2018

The Laboratory of Physics of Fluids belongs to the Department of Mathematics and Fluids Physics of the National University of Distance Education, and has as main lines of research combustion research, fuel cells and aerosols.

Laboratorio de Física de Fluidos. Facultad de Ciencias; Dept. Fisica Matematica y de Fluidos – UNED
Paseo Senda del Rey, 9
28040-Madrid
E-mail: pgybarra@ccia.uned.es

Conference Hydrogen and Fuel Cells organized by the Spanish Association of Fuel Cells

lunes, 30 abril 2018

J10Mayo

Dual and sustainable energy systems: challenges and opportunities

The objective is to raise awareness of the energy challenges faced by the land, aerospace and naval industry, and how new technologies, based on hydrogen and fuel cells, can respond to these challenges within the framework of a sustainable development. Efforts in research and innovation, as well as in technological development, are still necessary for its introduction into the market in a competitive manner.

On March 19, the Ministry of Public Works launched a strategic plan to encourage that, in Spanish airspace, there may be vigilant drones, taxi drivers or delivery drivers starting in 2035. The first step that the Administration has taken to “boost development” of the sector and place it in a leading position “is the approval of Royal Decree 1036/2017 that increases the number and types of activities that can be carried out with drones and gives greater capacity to operations. According to the calculations of the Ministry itself, in 2035, this sector will have a fleet of 51,400 drones for professional use (there are currently 4,200 in Spain), create 11,000 jobs and move about 1,220 million euros a year in revenue.

JALVASUB Engineering SL

miércoles, 18 abril 2018

It is a technology-based SME that was born at the beginning of 2017 with the aim of making a series of highly innovative products and services available to the Market. In JALVASUB Engineering SL we want to contribute to the improvement of the current Society, providing possible highly innovative solutions with the objectives of achieving on the one hand increasingly secure Societies, and on the other, to achieve Energy companies increasingly cleaner and more efficient.

ADDRESS
JALVASUB Engineering SL
Calle Kalamos 26 4 2 4
28232-Las Rozas de Madrid
E-mail: jalvasub@jalvasub.com

Fuel Cells and Systems Integration Unit

jueves, 01 marzo 2018

The CIEMAT Fuel Cells and Systems Integration Unit focuses on the development and application of solid oxide (SOFC) and polymer electrolyte (PEMFC) fuel cells, through the study of basic aspects of electrocatalysis and electrochemical conversion of energy; the search for new materials for components, with special attention to the electrocatalyst; the design and construction of prototypes with incorporation of the developed components; and the integration of hydrogen and fuel cells in systems for energy conversion.

ADDRESS
Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT)
Avenida Complutense 40
28040 Madrid
Dr. Tomás González Ayuso
Email: tomas.gonzalez@ciemat.es
Tfno: +34 91 346 61 48

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