USA: Infinity is researching fuel cells for NASA + + + Great Britain: CHUK wants to produce 5.000 tons of hydrogen per day from petroleum + + + USA: Black & Veatch builds hydrogen storage for Mitsubishi Power + + + Bochum: Roland Span receives ERC prize for basic research in the hydrogen economy + + + Düsseldorf: Dierk Raabe receives prize for research into green steel + + + Events
A selection of PtX topics summarized at the end of the week
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Infinity Fuel Cell and Hydrogen, Inc., a manufacturer of hydrogen fuel cells and electrolyzers for aerospace applications, researches and tests 
Fuel cell systems for NASA's “Game Changing Development” program and its Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. These are air-independent fuel cells that are specifically designed for use in... weightlessness be developed in a regenerative fuel cell system on the moon. The aim is to advance technologies that could one day power an exploration base camp in the complete darkness of the 14-day lunar night, the company said. (Photo: Infinity Fuel Cell and Hydrogen, Inc.)
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Clear Hydrogen UK Ltd. (CHUK) announces the extension of its contract with Proton Technologies Canada Inc. The plan is to produce hydrogen using old British offshore oil deposits and “bind large amounts of carbon dioxide in the form of solid carbonate,” according to a statement. In 2021, the founders of CHUK 3,7 million Canadian dollars in Proton to obtain a 20 ton per day production license for the UK and Ireland. The volume of the now reported expansion is 250 times higher, bringing the total value of the license for 5.000 tonnes per day to $925 million. The conditions include that 45 percent of CHUK's shares go to Proton, which, among other things, provides technical support to CHUK. Two of CHUK's founders will also serve on Proton's board.
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US engineering services provider Black & Veatch has been selected by Mitsubishi Power Americas and Magnum Development to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for the Advanced Clean Energy Storage project in Delta, Utah. The Hydrogen center was announced in 2019 and is initially designed to convert more than 220 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy into 100 tons of green hydrogen every day, which will be stored in two extensive salt caverns. Mitsubishi Power will handle the integration of the hydrogen systems, including the 220 MW electrolysers, gas separators, rectifiers, medium voltage transformers and the decentralized control system. The hydrogen storage facility, which will begin expansion this spring, is adjacent to the Intermountain Power Agency's (IPA) IPP Renewed project and will support the 840 MW hydrogen-powered gas turbine combined cycle power plant under construction. From 2025, the power plant will initially be operated with a mixture of 30 percent green hydrogen and 70 percent natural gas. The power plant is to be gradually expanded to 2045 percent hydrogen by 100.
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Roland Span from the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) develops material data models that describe the properties of hydrogen under various conditions and are, among other things, the basis for simulations of liquefaction plants. The project "Thermodynamic Properties for Hydrogen Liquefaction and Processing(ThermoPropHy) 
is intended to tackle work in the area of material data research for hydrogen technology and especially for the large-scale liquefaction of hydrogen, says Roland Span, head of the Chair of Thermodynamics. The European Research Council ERC is funding his work as an “Advanced Grant” with 2,5 million euros for five years. The project will start in October 2022. In addition to funding from the ERC, the RUB is supporting the project with investment funds of 450.000 euros, which will be made available through a large-scale equipment application for research infrastructure, according to a statement. (Photo: Roland Span, © Marquard, RUB)
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Dierk Raabe, director at the Düsseldorf Max Planck Institute for Iron Research (MPIE), will receive funding of 2,5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project “Reducing Iron Oxides without Carbon by using Hydrogen Plasma” (ROC). ). 
The “Advanced Grant” enables Raabe to intensify his basic research “in order to find the most efficient and sustainable way to produce green steel,” explains the institute. The global steel industry is the single largest emitter of greenhouse gases and is responsible for eight percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. The project "ROCK, THE CAT“ examines two things: using hydrogen plasma instead of carbon as a reducing agent for iron ore, leaving only water as a byproduct, and using moderately reducing electric arc furnaces that combine reduction, melting, mixing and removal of impurities in a single process step. “Our goal is to research the physical and chemical basis of the reduction processes down to the atomic scale,” says Dierk Raabe. “This understanding will enable us to find the most suitable reactors and reducing agents to achieve the highest metal yields with the lowest hydrogen and energy consumption.” (Photo: Dierk Raabe, © Frank Vinken, Max Planck Society)
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