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Enabling automotive and grid scale fuel cells

http://neahpower.com/whitepapers/

Formic Acid Reformer

Fuel cells are considered one of the cleanest methods of converting fuel into electricity, with minimal to no global warming byproducts. Their potential to generate ultra clean electricity is driving increased adoption of automotive and grid scale fuel cells. Cars with fuel cells will enable the vision of true zero- emission vehicles, since all–electric vehicles merely move the source of greenhouse gas emissions to the point of electricity generation. Similarly grid scale fuel cells provide near zero greenhouse gas emission for electricity generation. One additional, key advantage of fuel cells are their “instantly rechargeable” nature, as opposed to traditional batteries. One of the main limiters with the adoption of automotive fuel cells and grid scale fuel cells is the use of hydrogen as a fuel. Compressed hydrogen as a fuel source, when used in automobiles, has associated safety issues, and there is only limited, and cost-prohibitive to expand, infrastructure in place to for the purchase and distribution of compressed hydrogen on a consumer basis. Similarly, grid scale storage typical fuel cell installations require an onsite hydrogen generation plant or a natural gas pipeline, both of which can add significant cost.

System design guidelines and initial product deployment
Neah is in preliminary discussions with other fuel cell companies to license the reformer technology for
certain grid scale applications. Neah is also actively exploring partnerships with automobile
manufacturers to implement this technology for point source of hydrogen generation for automotive
fuel cells. In parallel, Neah is developing stand-alone systems for back-up power for a variety of
applications as well as integrated solutions for a variety of remote monitoring systems.