Hydrogenics Awarded Contract for UNIDO Fuel Cell Powered Boat
25 February 2010
Hydrogenics Corporation has been awarded a contract to supply the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with six HyPM HD8 fuel cell power modules for a boat project coordinated by the International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies (ICHET) in Istanbul, Turkey.
Hydrogenics will also supply carbon composite hydrogen storage tanks and components, other auxiliaries and spare parts for two years of operation to ICHET, which is overseeing the integration.
This contract follows on the award in 2009 of four HyPM HD12 fuel cell power modules for a passenger boat application ordered by the engineering organization BELBIM A.S. for Istanbul’s Municipal Transit Authority, in which UNIDO-ICHET participated as a hydrogen and fuel cell consultant.
Hydrogenics has slowly worked to pave a presence in fuel cell powered water mobility applications, starting with our Venice water taxi project several years ago. As in other important end markets, our efforts are now bearing fruit, and we look forward to working with ICHET on this integrated hydrogen system.
—Daryl Wilson, President and CEO
Maybe a contract would disclose some FC specifications and costs..
Posted by: kelly | 25 February 2010 at 09:24 AM
Iceland wanted to convert their fishing fleet to hydrogen. It might have been better to make methanol with the geothermal and CO2 from vents. At least they could run existing engines on it and then transition later on.
The sub prime CDOs wiped out the country and caused them to declare bankruptcy before they had a chance to do any of that. When you are a small country, beware of financial people bringing gifts with promised large returns backed by CDS "insurance" backed by no asset value at all.
Posted by: SJC | 25 February 2010 at 05:32 PM