The heritage of Rudolf Diesel

The health problems generated by diesel in the lungs has led to cities such as London, Paris, Hamburg and Stuttgart, the German automobile cradle, to ban it. On August 13 and 14, the first International Hydrogen Forum in Costa Rica was held in San José, organized by Estrategia Siglo XXI. In that meeting, the Environment Minister, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Echandi, reminded those present of the achievements made by Costa Rica in the last century, in terms of recovering forest cover and decarbonising our electricity network.

Then, the President of the Republic, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, contributed an accurate reflection in the sense that it is only through the knowledge and development of science that humanity has been able to achieve a better standard of living for most of the inhabitants of the planet. The words of the President set the tone for the subsequent exhibitions by the main players in the energy industry in the field, such as Shell; the producers of combustion engines, Cummis and Toyota among others, as well as two industrial gas giants: Praxair and Air Liquide. All these actors instructed us during the two days of the meeting.

Start project to develop hydrogen cells in east ChinaInician proyecto para desarrollar celdas de hidrógeno en este de China

A project to develop hydrogen cells was launched today to build a «hydrogen city» in Jinan, in the province of Shandong, eastern China. The project, launched by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, aims to promote the research and development of fundamental technology related to hydrogen, promote the application of hydrogen cells in vehicles and encourage the development of the hydrogen-based automotive industry .

Shandong Heavy Industry Group (SHIG) signed agreements with Ballard Power Systems and Westport Fuel Systems of Canada, leading companies in the industry, to develop engines powered by hydrogen and natural gas, respectively. The local government will also cooperate with SHIG in order to manufacture hydrogen-powered buses in three or five years.

With an investment of 1.80 billion yuan (290 million dollars), Weichai Power, a manufacturing group of equipment and automobiles of SHIG, will work with other 12 companies and universities and institutes to improve the sustainability and adaptability of fuel cells said Tan Xuguang, chairman of the SHIG board and director of Weichai Power. In accordance with China’s guidelines on strategic emerging sectors in the 13th Five-Year Plan, the country will promote research and development of fuel cells, build more hydrogen stations and achieve mass production of fuel cell vehicles by 2020.

A project in Japan will generate 10MW of hydrogen from renewable energy

Asahi Kasei, through the subsidiary company Asahi Kasei Engineering Corp., has been commissioned, by Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions, to build a hydrogen generating plant based on green energy. The power plant, which will consist of an alkaline water electrolysis system with 10 MW (megawatts) of power, will be powered only by renewable energy from a solar panel installation.

Thanks to Asahi Kasei’s alkaline chlorine electrolysis technology, it has been possible to develop a large-scale alkaline water electrolysis system with high energy efficiency and exceptional response capacity. The project will be supported by the Industrial Technology and New Energy Development Organization of Japan (NEDO), the same institution that is leading the alliance for the development of solid electrolyte batteries in the Nation of the Rising Sun.

The power plant will be integrated with the photovoltaic plate installations of the Fukushima Hydrogen Research Field for the generation of hydrogen and large-scale renewable energy. The first tests of the system will take place in the fall of 2019, while hydrogen production is expected to start stably in the summer of 2020.

Green hydrogen, the energy solution to reduce emissions

Have you heard about green hydrogen? Here we tell you what it is, and we invite you to learn more about this gas that is already presented as the solution for a cleaner future free of fossil fuel emissions. Do you sign up to meet him?

The term green hydrogen may catch many unsuspecting, but, if it is the case, it is better to open your ears and pay attention because you may find the solution to reduce fossil fuel emissions.

This is how it is presented in a recent report by Morgan Stanley Research where the keys and the reason for the baptism of this new gas are given, on which a large part of the environmental expectations are deposited. You want to know more? Do not hesitate and keep reading.

¿Did you know that…?

Did you know that electric cars exceed one million units in the EU?

Europe is one year behind China in terms of reaching one million electric cars, but is ahead of the US, which currently has a fleet of 750,000 cars powered by batteries and ‘plug-in’.

According to the EV Volumes analyst’s global electric car database, «sales of plug-in vehicles in Europe reached 195,000 units in the first half of 2018, 42% more than in the same period of 2017.» EV Volume counts both electric vehicles with batteries (‘pure electric’) and hybrid vehicles with plug in the categories of cars and light vehicles (ATVs, mopeds and motorcycles). Hybrids that do not have a plug are out of consideration.

Agenda

AuxDefense 2018, 1st World Conference on Advanced Materials for Defense

Free Public Tours of Aberdeen City Hydrogen Energy Storage (ACHES) Facility

6th International Conference on Ionic Liquids for Electrochemical Devices, ILED-6

International Conference on Advanced Energy Materials, AEM 2018

Joint European Summer School on Fuel Cell, Electrolyser and Battery Technologies, JESS 2018, Week 1: Introductory Classes

Cenex-LCV 2018, Low Carbon Vehicle Event 2018

Electrochem 2018, 25th Annual Conference

Joint European Summer School on Fuel Cell, Electrolyser and Battery Technologies, JESS 2018, Week 2: Advanced Classes

Spanish Fuel Cells Association – APPICE https://appice.es

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