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Building on its extensive program on fuel cell vehicles, Toyota Motor Corporation is also developing fuel cells for residential use, according to a Kyodo News International report. The Japanese auto giant has tied up with automotive components maker Aisin Seiki to launch home fuel cells in the next few years.
Toyota has already been cooperating with Toho Gas to test a fuel cell cogeneration system in some houses in central Japan, using hydrogen reformed from natural gas, LPG or kerosene. The automaker is also planning to participate in government-subsidized fuel cell demonstration tests, alongside several gas utilities and fuel cell manufacturers.
Fuel cell veteran Jeff Bentley has joined Massachusetts-based CellTech Power as its CEO. The move is in conjunction with the company's recent efforts to take its innovative liquid tin anode solid oxide fuel cell technology to new markets. Down the road in Connecticut, Stephen F. Nagy has joined electrolyzer developer Avalence as CEO. And over in upstate New York, MTI MicroFuel Cells has announced that its co-founder and CEO, Dr William P. Acker, is to step down at the completion of a search for his successor.
Jeff Bentley was previously CEO of fuel cell test solutions firm Fideris, and before that headed up Nuvera Fuel Cells (formerly Epyx). He says that CellTech's liquid tin anode is a unique approach that reduces the complexity of SOFC fuel cell systems by eliminating reformers and clean-up systems. The firm (www.celltechpower. com) has demonstrated its approach in a multi-kW natural gas prototype, and is now applying the same technology in a Darpa MISER contract using waste plastic and JP-8 as fuel.
Steve Nagy brings more than 30 years of technology business building, senior executive leadership and funding experience to the board at Avalence (www.avalence.com). 'A foremost attraction is the Avalence core technology: hydrogen generation from electrolysis of water at high pressures, obviating the need for expensive and troublesome compressors,' he says. 'Avalence's deep technological problem-solving and 'design-to-suit' legacy fits well with a capitalsparing transition to a hydrogen economy.' MTI Micro (www.mtimicrofuelcells.com) has set up a search committee of board members and appointed a leading executive search firm; William Acker will remain as CEO until his successor is in place. He will then continue to be actively involved as an advisor helping to further develop the Mobion ยฎ technology for commercialization. Acker will also serve as a member of the MTI Micro board and as chair of the board's technology committee.
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