HydroGen completes 400 kW fuel cell demo unit

HydroGen Corporation (Nasdaq: HYDG) of Cleveland, Ohio has finished construction of a new full commercial scale 400 kW demonstration phosphoric acid fuel cell (PAFC) power plant.

The company is a designer and manufacturer of multi-megawatt air-cooled PAFC systems (see the Cleantech Group's HydroGen prepping massive fuel cell generators.)

HydroGen's device, installed at a chemical company's plant in Ashtabula, Ohio, is to utilize waste hydrogen gas produced by the plant to generate electric power, heat, and water for the plant’s use.

“The commercial demonstration PAFC power plant at Ashta Chemicals Inc. will enable us to showcase our technology in an industrial setting representing a key target market segment for the company,” said Leo Blomen, HydroGen Chairman and CEO.

“Now we enter the pre-commissioning and preparation phase, the necessary precursors to accepting newly-produced 400 kW modules at the plant for testing and demonstration,” said Blomen.

In addition, HydroGen announced the completion and successful testing of a newly-manufactured 2.5 kW stack.

While combinations of Westinghouse and HydroGen-manufactured components have previously been tested in the company’s 2.5 kW test configurations, this new HydroGen-manufactured stack "fully validates the company’s production processes and methods," it said in a statement.

Utilizing fuel cell technology originally developed by Westinghouse, HydroGen targets market applications where hydrogen is currently available and other drivers favoring the adoption of fuel cells are present, the company said.

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