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Vasconcelos was a vice-president at disk-drive maker, Seagate Technology.
An executive search has been initiated for a new CTO, but in the mean time CTO responsibilities will be shared by three members of Ballard's management team until a successor is named. Dr Charles Stone, who leads Ballard's R&D activities, will take on added responsibility for technology planning. Dr Fred Flett will continue to be responsible for electric drive and power conversion product development, while Jim Sturek will assume responsibility for all fuel cell product development activities in Vancouver and Nabern, Germany. Each will report directly to president/CEO, Dennis Campbell, who is 'confident that the experience and capabilities of our interim leadership team will provide a seamless transition.'
Japan's largest oil refiner, Nippon Oil Corporation, plans to start selling a newly developed kerosene-based hydrogen fuel cell in the retail market in 2006 for ยฅ2-3m (US$19 000-28 000), according to a Dow Jones report from Tokyo. The company has apparently already supplied a 10 kWe pilot fuel cell to the New Energy Foundation, which expected to begin test operations during February at a convenience store in the Shinagawa district of Tokyo.
Nippon Oil has developed technology to extract sulfur from kerosene and then produce hydrogen from the kerosene. The company jointly built the pilot 10 kWe fuel cell -which generates sufficient electricity to power a typical small or medium-sized commercial facility such as a restaurant or drugstore -with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Early last year Nippon Oil began testing six of its residential PEM fuel cell systems using reformed propane [FCB, March 2003].
The New Energy Foundation is coordinating the development of stationary fuel cell power systems among 11 or so major Japanese companies, including Matsushita Electric Industrial, Sanyo Electric, Toshiba, Ebara and Toyota Motor Corporation. The participants are committed to field testing fuel cells at more than 40 locations across Japan by March 2005.
Meanwhile, Japan Energy Corporationpart of Tokyo-based Nippon Mining Holdings -will begin research this fiscal year on a 5 kWe residential fuel cell running on LPG. The company expects to complete the project in fiscal 2005, according to the Nikkei Business Daily.
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