Hexagon Purus and Ballard Power are developing H2 trucks + + + Advent Technology buys Serenergy/Fischer Eco + + + FDP asks about H2 infrastructure + + + The University of Bayreuth is researching electrolysers + + + Faun new building for H2 sweepers + + + Everfuel supplies Teco 2030 + + + Vattenfall delivers the first green steel to Volvo + + + Construction begins for the HySON Institute in Thuringia + + + Beijing becomes a model city for H2 + + + Sinopec invests $4,6 billion in H2 production + + + Appointments
A selection of PtX topics summarized at the end of the week
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The Norwegian one Hexagon Purus AS and the Canadian fuel cell manufacturer Ballard Power Systems Inc. want to produce medium-duty trucks in (US) classes 6 and 7 (just under nine to 15 tons) with fuel cell drives. The range should be 400 miles (640 kilometers), and the refueling time is comparable to that of conventional trucks.
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Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc. has the takeover of the Danish Serenergy A/S and Fischer Eco Solutions GmbH (FES), the Fischer Group's fuel cell business. Serenergy is a manufacturer of off-grid high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (HT-PEM). FES is based on the Fischer Group's premises in Achern (Baden-Württemberg), offers assembly and testing of fuel cell stacks and produces membrane electrode assemblies (MEA), bipolar plates and reformers. With the completion of the transaction, Advent has entered into a rental agreement for the part of the Fischer site used by FES. FES's 17 employees, as well as all Serenergy employees, are expected to remain with Advent, the company said. Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc. is an American company that, among other things, develops, manufactures and assembles components for fuel cells.
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Loop Energy, developer and manufacturer of solutions based on hydrogen fuel cells, and Hydrogen In Motion (H2M), providers of hydrogen storage, want to work together diesel-electric shunting locomotives is Southern Railway of British Columbia (Canada) convert to hydrogen propulsion. The project is supported by research from the University of British Columbia Okanagan School of Engineering (UBCO).
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“Regulation and promotion of a hydrogen infrastructure” is the title of one Small request from the FDP-Group (19/32119). Among other things, the MPs want to know from the federal government how it will assess the cost risk for operators and customers of hydrogen networks in the event of separate regulation, “if only a few hydrogen consumers are initially connected and have to refinance the line using their fees”.
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The University of Bayreuth researches high-temperature electrolysis (HTEL) as part of the hydrogen lead projects funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). In the H2 GigaThe university announced that the project is about the research, development and industrial production of powerful and cost-effective electrolyzers that can meet Germany's need for green hydrogen in the future. The company coordinates within the “scale-up projects”. Sunfire the H2 Giga project “HTs: HTEL stacks – Ready for Gigawatt”. The Chair of Ceramic Materials will receive funding of more than 950.000 euros for almost four years for its research work.
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The Faun Viatec GmbH has laid the foundation stone for their new production location. According to its own information, the company is investing an unspecified sum in the double-digit million range on the 58.000 square meter site in the commercial and industrial area of Grimma (Saxony) on the A14. Currently, 300 sweepers leave the Saxon factory in Grimma every year. With the expansion of production, the number increases to 500 vehicles. Sweeping vehicles with fuel cell drives will also be produced there.
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Teco 2030 ASA has a cooperation agreement with Everfuel A/S signed on the supply of green hydrogen for its fuel cells. Everfuel should also deliver the hydrogen to locations where the Teco 2030 fuel cells are located, such as on ships, but also on vehicles or devices that are used on construction sites, for example.
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The Swedish steel producer SSAB produced the world's first fossil-free steel using Hybrit technology in July. Work on the project SSAB, LKAB and the electricity supplier Vattenfall working to reduce steel to 100 percent using hydrogen instead of coal and coke. The first steel produced in this way was sent to the Volvo Group, delivered.
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In Sonneberg (Thuringia) the construction of the HySON Institute for applied hydrogen research started. Office and laboratory buildings with a test hall are being built “for research into the practical application of hydrogen technologies as well as industry-related and technology-oriented applications,” according to the Thuringian Ministry of Economic Affairs. The aim is to produce technical prototypes and development samples “on a laboratory and semi-technical scale”. The total costs of the project amount to around 6,4 million euros, and the state is funding the construction with around 3,1 million euros.
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Peking is set to become one of the first hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (FCV) demonstration cities in China. The city has developed a financial support system for fuel cell vehicles and is planning further discounts for their purchase. According to the state portal “China.org“Twelve cities and districts, including Daxing District in Beijing, Binhai New Area in Tianjin and Baoding City, form the cluster of fuel cell vehicle demonstration cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
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Asia's largest oil company Sinopec Corp. plans to invest around 2025 billion dollars (4,6 billion euros) in the production of hydrogen by 3,9. According to “Reuters“Switch to the production of natural gas and hydrogen to become a carbon-neutral energy supplier by 2050. The aim is to have an annual capacity of 2025 tons for hydrogen refueling by 200.000. To achieve this, Sinopec wants to produce more than a million tons of green hydrogen from renewable energy sources between 2021 and 2025 and build solar parks with an output of 400 megawatts. According to the news agency, Sinopec has built 20 hydrogen filling stations so far, and another 60 are under construction or in the planning and approval phase. The company produces around three million tons of hydrogen every year from non-renewable energy sources.
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