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July 2012 Newsletter

Welcome to the Fuel Cell Technologies Program July 2012 newsletter. This newsletter is issued monthly to our Fuel Cell News subscribers and includes a recap of the previous month's news and events as well as a preview of upcoming activities. Newsletter archives

can be found on the website.

In this issue:

In the News

Energy Department Invests in Advancing Hydrogen Infrastructure and Fueling Technologies

As part of the Energy Department's commitment to give American businesses more options to cut energy costs and reduce reliance on imported oil, on July 18 the Department announced a $2.4 million investment

to collect and analyze performance data for hydrogen fueling stations and advanced refueling components. The five projects—located in California, Illinois, and Connecticut—will track the performance and technical progress of innovative refueling systems at planned or existing hydrogen fueling stations to find ways to lower costs and improve operation. These investments are part of the Department's commitment to support U.S. leadership in advanced hydrogen and fuel cell research and help industry bring hydrogen technologies into the marketplace at lower cost.

"As part of an all-of-the-above strategy to deploy every available source of American energy, the Energy Department is committed to advancing fuel cell technologies and supporting innovative technologies that diversify our nation’s transportation sector and reduce our dependence on imported oil," said Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy David Danielson. "The investments made today will support American manufacturing competitiveness in the next generation of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, driving more efficient designs and new component development."

Fuel Cell Technologies Project Wins R&D 100 Award for 2012

Researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) funded by the Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Program have won one of only 100 awards

given out this year by R&D Magazine for the most outstanding technology developments with promising commercial potential. The Energy Department announced that it received a total of 36 awards across all of its research and development programs, including EERE which won 12. BNL's project focuses on platinum monolayer electrocatalysts for fuel cell cathodes. Platinum is the most efficient electrocatalyst for fuel cells, but conventional platinum-based catalysts are expensive and durability is a major challenge. The new electrocatalysts have high activity, stability, and durability, while containing only about one-tenth the platinum of conventional catalysts used in fuel cells, significantly reducing overall costs.

Hydrogen Production Projects Awarded DOE Small Business Research and Development Grants

As part of President Obama's broad efforts to support American small businesses and help advance cutting-edge clean energy innovations, the Energy Department awarded new funding to small businesses

nationwide, including two hydrogen production projects, Arbsource of Tempe, Arizona, and Proton OnSite of Wallingford, Connecticut.

"Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, employing half of all workers in America and creating two out of every three new jobs in the U.S.," said Secretary Chu. "Bringing these innovative technologies to market is just the latest step in the Energy Department's efforts to support the critical role that small businesses are playing in creating jobs for American workers and expanding our country's clean energy economy. These businesses are helping to reduce our dependence on imported oil and protect our air and water, while ensuring that the United States leads in the global clean energy race."

Check out our events calendar

to see a listing of our upcoming events.

Funding Opportunities

Upcoming SBIR Awards

Look for SBIR Release 3 Topics

in October.

Current Funding Opportunity Announcements are posted on the FCT financial opportunities

website.

Webinars and Workshops

DOE Webinar July 17: Fuel Cells for Portable Power

The Energy Department presented a live webcast titled "Fuel Cells for Portable Power" on Tuesday, July 17, 2012. This webinar focused on recent R&D advancements in direct methanol fuels and their use in portable power. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory discussed advanced materials and the development of new methanol oxidation catalysts, hydrocarbon membranes with reduced methanol crossover, and improvements to component durability. Researchers at the University of North Florida focused on a "passive-water recovery" MEA, which eliminates the water recovery components, and results in a small, lightweight DMFC power supply. Finally, researchers at Arkema presented their polymer electrolyte membrane design for direct methanol fuels which blends poly(vinylidene fluoride) with a sulfonated polyelectrolyte. Slides and a recording of the webinar

are available.

Upcoming DOE Webinar August 14: Material Characterization of Storage Vessels for Fuel Cell Forklifts

The Energy Department will present a live webinar entitled "Material Characterization of Storage Vessels for Fuel Cell Forklifts" on Tuesday, August 14 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. This webinar will focus on the results of a study conducted by Sandia National Laboratories that investigated the fatigue life of steel pressure vessels, commonly used for the transport of pressurized gases, including gaseous hydrogen. By subjecting vessels to pressure cycles with gaseous hydrogen between nominal pressure of 3 and 44 MPa and simulating manufacturing defects to initiate failure after a relatively low number of cycles, Sandia was able to analyze life-cycle performance and create new design rules for hydrogen service incorporated into the CSA HPIT1 draft standard. Additionally, the experimental methodologies are being incorporated in SAE J2579. This webinar will describe how the DOE-EERE funded Hydrogen Safety, Codes and Standards Program was able to provide timely resources for this critical research topic. Register to attend this webinar

Upcoming Webinars

Winners of the Hydrogen Student Design Contest – September 4

JOBS and economic impacts of Fuel Cells (JOBS FC) Analysis Model Status – October 9

Visit our website to see webinar archives

or workshop presentations.

Studies, Reports, and Publications

National Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Learning Demonstration Final Report

The Energy Department recently released the final report

from the National Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Learning Demonstration, a technology validation project that collected data from more than 180 fuel cell electric vehicles. Over six years, these vehicles made more than 500,000 trips and traveled 3.6 million miles, completing more than 33,000 fill-ups at hydrogen fueling stations across the country. The project found that these vehicles achieved more than twice the efficiency of today's gasoline vehicles with refueling times of five minutes for four kilograms of hydrogen.

Visit our website to access technical information about hydrogen and fuel cells

. This information is provided in documents such as technical and project reports, conference proceedings and journal articles, technical presentations, and links to other websites.

National Laboratory and Principal Investigator Achievements

Stanford University – President Obama Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists

On July 23, President Obama named 96 researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers

(PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. Among those listed was Thomas Francisco Jaramillo of Stanford University who was recognized for his innovations in solar hydrogen production, including using quantum confinement in molybdenum-disulfide nanoparticles to enhance catalytic reactivity, for incorporating these catalysts into high-surface-area scaffolds, and for excellence in mentoring at the university level. This is the first PECASE award presented to a researcher funded by DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

"Discoveries in science and technology not only strengthen our economy, they inspire us as a people," President Obama said. "The impressive accomplishments of today's awardees so early in their careers promise even greater advances in the years ahead."

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Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Industry News

Federal Program News

Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu Expresses Change in Opinion on Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy in Autoline Interview

On June 22nd, Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu appeared on the web program Autoline, to discuss hydrogen as a transportation fuel. In the interview, Sec. Chu said he had "changed [his] mind," on fuel cells and hydrogen, due largely to the abundance and low cost of natural gas, as well as some technological developments. He also praised the faster fueling time of fuel cell electric vehicles, compared to battery electrics.

Transcript of Remarks

"I think that when I first came in you were right. I was not as high on hydrogen fuel cells. But several things changed my mind. The most important thing that changed my mind was the fact that we have now natural gas in abundance. Hydrogen is reformed from natural gas. That's point number one. So you have an off load of that."

"Point number two is that you can take natural gas and when you reform it, you are actually making a lot of carbon dioxide. You are losing a lot of the heat content. You make it up it the efficiency of the electric motor. But now we also have an emerging technology where you can take natural gas, you can burn it in a partial oxygen atmosphere-a little starved,-generate the electricity, capture a lot of the heat energy. You also get hydrogen and carbon monoxide. You take the carbon monoxide, pass it over in a steam process-its call a shift process-you get a stream of hydrogen. You get a pure stream of carbon dioxide, and you get electricity. That will change things. The pure stream most."

"The major source of hydrogen is used in oil refineries. You want to tip the balance and shift from the heavy oils fuels-bunker fuels-to use gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. They use hydrogen to do that. You have natural gas to supply then. You have carbon dioxide, which is making money in enhanced oil recovery. So now the economics are looking good. The carbon footprint looks much better."

The interview can be found here

. Secretary Chu's segment begins at about 1:18 into the program.

Department of Energy Invests in Fueling Technologies for a Hydrogen Infrastructure

On July 18th, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a $2.4 million investment in projects to assess the performance and progress of hydrogen fueling stations in the hope of improving efficiency and lowering costs. California State University and Los Angeles Auxiliary Services, Inc., the Gas Technology Institute, and Proton Energy Systems will receive grants of $400,000 while the California Air Resources Board receives an award of $150,000. The awards demonstrate the Energy Department's commitment to promoting hydrogen energy as part of our nation's energy portfolio.

Proton Energy Systems will receive an additional $1 million in funding to lead a second project to deploy an advanced high-pressure electrolyzer at an existing hydrogen fuelling station.

More information can be found here.

Department of Energy Awards Small Business Research and Development Grants to Proton OnSite and Arbsource for Hydrogen Production Projets

Proton OnSite and Arbsource, LLC were recently selected to receive Department of Energy funding for hydrogen production projects. The grants were made available through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.

Proton OnSite will use the funds to reduce the cost of Proton's hydrogen generation systems. Proton OnSite manufactures electrolysis systems which utilizes renewable energy sources.

Arbsource uses biotechnology to generate hydrogen gas during wastewater treatment processes. The hydrogen generated will be used as a fuel to help lower the costs of plant operation.

More information is available online here.

Department of Energy Fuel Cell Technologies Project Wins R&D 100 Award for 2012

R&D Magazine has awarded one of its 100 awards to Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL's) this year for their work on platinum monolayer electrocatalysts for fuel cell cathodes. Platinum is the most efficient electrocatalyst for fuel cells, but conventional platinum-based catalysts are expensive and durability is a major challenge. The new electrocatalysts have high activity, stability, and durability, while containing only about one-tenth the platinum of conventional catalysts used in fuel cells, significantly reducing overall costs. BNL's work was funded by the Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Program.

More information on the award can be found here.

RFP / Solicitation News

Department of Commerce Announces Reestablishment of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Advisory Committee, Seeks Nominations

The Department of Commerce has announced the reestablishment of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Advisory Committee. The Committee will advise the Secretary of Commerce regarding programs and policies to expand the export of domestically manufactured renewable energy and energy efficiency goods and services.

For information on the Committee and how to apply for nomination please view the Federal Register posting here.

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