Alumifuel Power Corp. (AFPW)

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My eye opening visit with Alumifuel Power Inc and management! These guys know hydrogen!

Posted by admin On January - 10 - 2010
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A lot of times there are companies trading on the stock market that truly don’t deserve to be on there, but every once in a while I come across fantastic companies that are completely undervalued and under the radar. Alumifuel Power Inc happens to be one of those companies. As we profiled Alumifuel Power Inc, the due diligence we were finding were making us extremely curious about how big and how far Alumifuel really was in the hydrogen power world. Armed with just my trusty video camera and digital camera I took the trip to Philadelphia Pennsylvania to visit with Alumifuel and hopefully they would show me how some of their technology works and to see some hydrogen gas made!

The trip from NYC to Philadelphia was a pleasant trip and I was pleased to find out that Alumifuel’s location was only about 5 city blocks from the train station. I hailed a cab and was on the way for my visit with Alumifuel. As we were driving I noticed we kept driving past many different branches of Drexel University. As we got closer to the Science Centers I noticed the sign under Market Ave read, “Avenue of Technologies”. This was such a great thing to see considering I was visiting a hydrogen company with some upcoming technology!



As we pulled up I took a picture of the front of the building, as it was an impressive building and was nice to know AFPW was inside. Alumifuel is on the 9th floor so as I entered the building I signed in with security and was allowed to proceed to the 9th floor. As I exited the elevator I noticed another sign pointing me in the direction of the office and I took another picture as well, just for proof I was on the 9th floor.



As I entered the office there were 2 employees both wearing their lab equipment on the computers working and I was greeted by Alumifuel’s Director of Engineering Sean McIntosh. I noticed the computers were all up to date and there was also several different prototypes of the PBIS system in parts lying around behind the corner as I looked around. David Cade greeted me with a warm welcome and took me in his office before letting me pick his Director of Engineering’s brain.

As I sat with Sean he explained his role in the company and his love for the science of what he does was clearly apparent. He was also extremely happy to be able to explain why Drexel University played a major role in their success. Drexel University has microscopes that not many other universities or companies do not have access to. This allows them their data collection and analysis to be top notch and to the utmost quality and precision. After a few diagrams and a very good explanation on how Alumifuel proprietary mixture is able to remove the other ’shell’ formed on the aluminum atom caused by oxidation. This process when mixed with aluminum, water and AFPW’s mixture releases hydrogen gas. After I had an idea of how their technology works, it was time for the walkthrough.

As I walked into the machine shop I was asked to put on Lab Glasses for safety regulations and was shown the machine shop. I was glad to see Alumifuel had almost everything they would need in the shop to create smaller versions and other hybrids of their generator and even other applications as they work on things throughout their workday. They have a welder on site as every one of staff is highly trained in all aspects of engineering. It was also extremely encouraging to hear that if they did not have a part they needed urgently it was as simple as walking downstairs to one of their neighboring machine shops and get whatever they needed quickly and efficiently. They had all types of knickknacks in the machine shop as well as some older projects they were working on.




After I was allowed to walkthrough the machine shop it was time for me to go into the lab. The lab was very clean with two large work areas on the left side with flood hoods. As I looked at the area in the flood hood I noticed there were many electronics that were used to measure hydrogen, temperature, etc. One of the areas was being used for the Flameless Ration Heater Demo and one was a demonstration for how their propriety mixture creates hydrogen gas simply by adding their mixture, water and aluminum. On the right side of the lab were other large work tables and on the wall were the cartridges for their Portable Balloon Inflation System. Some were filled some were empty. The largest can company they could find was the “Balls Co” and they had some other cans on the wall from their older days. What was so amazing was when they compared the cans to the large dangerous K-Cylinder. I was almost blown away from the size difference. 10 Cans equals a large K-Cylinder and I made sure to take pictures of the comparison!



After I was done snapping some shots of the lab it was time for the Demonstrations. I got the video camera ready for them so soon you will be able to watch what I saw! They started with the hydrogen gas production demo. They had two different setups to prove they could control the reaction of the output with the simple calculations for the propritory mixture. One glass was a steady gradual production, while the other was a stronger reaction. They had both solutions connected to the computer for analysis for me to see what was really happening. Hydrogen is clear but one side you could see the reaction was causing a temperature increasing quicker causing steam to be produced. Both had an increase in temperature and hydrogen gas release which was shown on the computer screen and also on the sensors within the flood hoods. They also wanted to show me how they can also stop the reaction with a simple addition of another solution and everything was brought to halt. After the demo was done one of the employees was bragging how if they really needed to, we could run things off aluminum foil. After some laughing I realized he was serious and he set up another demo for me with another older proprietary mix and we saw the same reaction occur with Aluminum foil. It was a great show to see how with their technology was removing the other shell that all aluminum develops from oxidation and mixing it with water, can release the hydrogen as a gas.



The next demonstration was their Flameless Ration Heaters. Their setup is almost exactly like the current FRHs used by the military and even some commercial sources (hunting shops, TV dinners, etc). The difference between Alumifuel’s FRHs and the ones that can be found now is the fact ours does not use magnesium, so therefore when cooking there is no metal smell! That’s right; the current ones if anyone has used them can smell like metal when mixing the FRHs with water. Since ours is not based on magnesium, but rather our propriety mixture there is no odor. While we were there they heated two of their packets up and left a thermometer in one of them. It was clearly cooking at 90 degrees Celsius and was even warming up to the touch at first so I can say they definitely work.



After all the demonstrations Dave let me take some more pictures of their setup and the lab. The visit was a great visit and to see a company that we are profiling up close and personal making sure everything is on the up and up is such a great feeling. Not a lot of times the company is open to letting you come on in for a demonstration. I am extremely confident that if Alumifuel keep’s its business plan going and keep demonstrating their technology to the right people they have a huge chance on breaking out big on the hydrogen scene.