Safe Hydrogen, LLC. of Lexington, Mass has been awarded $308,000 from the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust SEED Program (Sustainable Energy Economic Development), a division of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC).
The funding represents the remaining costs of completing a three-year, $2.4 million technology demonstration project awarded to Safe Hydrogen by the U.S. Department of Energy. Safe Hydrogen began work on the project in April of 2004. Its objective is to confirm the functionality of, as well as to validate the cost and efficiency of, Safe Hydrogen’s proprietary compound to store, transport and generate hydrogen.
Safe Hydrogen has developed a safe, pumpable hydrogen rich fuel that releases hydrogen as needed. The company is in the process of demonstrating this storage and distribution technology which eliminates several key road blocks to a hydrogen economy – storage safety, storage and distribution efficiency and need for a new infrastructure. The core ingredients of the pumpable chemical hydride slurry are environmentally friendly and completely recyclable. The slurry, both before and after yielding the hydrogen, is not flammable, safe to handle, easy to store and can use current pumps and tanks used for diesel fuel, gasoline or water.
At the end of 2005, Safe Hydrogen had completed half of the DOE demonstration project. The first prototype of the company’s hydrogen generation device has been tested and several functional slurry versions have been produced. The second half of the project targets further improvements in the prototypes and aims to complete detailed costs and efficiency measures specified in DOE cost and efficiency targets.
Safe Hydrogen’s technology of safe and efficient hydrogen storage enables broad based use of renewable energy sources and the pollution free conversion of hydrogen to electricity by fuel cells for off-grid, back-up and portable power. The technology also enables the use of hydrogen for vehicle power.
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