Smart Fuel Cell raises €15m to fund growth

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 68 KB
• Volume: 2006
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-2859
• DOI: 10.1016/s1464-2859(06)71083-5

✦ Synopsis

propane using a pyrolysis process developed by KAT-chem, which Voller acquired last year [FCB, April 2005]. A pyrolyzer is a much simpler reformer that operates without the need for water or steam, and here without using expensive catalysts.

Last October the company successfully demonstrated in its lab a pyrolyzer producing 90 W of hydrogen equivalent -using standard Calor Gas propane as the input. The purity of the hydrogen produced was extraordinarily high. Voller recently signed a joint development agreement with ZBT in Germany to accelerate progress in this area, employing ZBT's considerable knowledge and experience [FCB, April]. In March ZBT completed its feasibility study, validating the design concepts of the Voller pyrolyzer; systems are now under construction for testing and subsequent integration with stack systems.