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There's at least one fuel cell company looking at the fuel flexibility issue once the customer converts to fuel cell energy generation.
A team of IdaTech engineers led by David J. Edlund, IdaTech's vice president of technology, demonstrated the efficient, low emissions capability of a 3-kilowatt system with onboard conversion of methanol to hydrogen for the generation of about 3 kilowatts of electric power. The live demonstration was conducted last week in the Radisson Scandinavian SAS Hotel in Copenhagen with the support of Statoil and Methanex, two of the world's leading methanol producers.
``We demonstrated functioning technology,'' said Edlund. In a featured presentation, he told the approximately 400 conference participants that IdaTech is on track to commercialize the first of its 1-kilowatt, 3-kilowatt, and larger fuel cells for UPS, emergency power, and portable and stationary applications in late 2002, and residential applications in 2003.
IdaTech's products include a patented fuel processor that converts conventional fuels, such as methanol, natural gas and propane, into greater than 99.9% pure hydrogen, which the fuel cell itself then transforms into electricity.
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