(OTC Bulletin Board: GSHF) today announced its formation of General Ultrasonics Corporation, a development stage company that owns patented technologies that use ultrasonic energies to enhance physical and chemical reactions and to synthesize clean fuels including hydrogen.
General Ultrasonics' technologies use high intensity ultrasonic energies to enable a new type of hydrogen reformation that is capable of significantly reducing the scale at which hydrogen production is cost-effective.
This reduction in scale is made possible by a demonstrated 25% reduction in the temperatures required to affect the reformation reaction as compared to standard steam reformation of natural gas (SRNG), and even greater gains as compared to partial oxidation processes (POX).
In standard SRNG and POX processes, the reformation reaction is catalysed chemically. The General Ultrasonics process leverages mechanical processes to generate ultrasonic energies that in turn catalyse the reformation reaction at lower temperatures.
General Ultrasonics' reformation process was designed to produce hydrogen out of a variety of hydrogen-containing feedstocks. Initial testing on General Ultrasonics' prototypes demonstrates that on-demand hydrogen production is achievable with the technology.
General Ultrasonics' technologies were acquired in General Ultrasonics' recent acquisition of H2 Energy Solutions, Inc. ("HES"). The inventor of the technology originally designed the General Ultrasonics' reformation process to enable low cost reformation of standard petroleum hydrocarbon products, but it has the capability to produce hydrogen-rich gases, other synthetic gases and fuels, and other products from qualified carbon-based, hydrocarbon-based, and other liquids, solids and gases.
