The field trial system is planned for installation in summer 2011, and will provide critical back-up power for an environmental remediation plant at Solvay’s Warrington plant.
The installation is designed to help ACAL Energy and its partners to understand exactly how a back-up power system powered by its novel FlowCath fuel cell engine power module will operate in a real application.
ACAL Energy said that it is completing the low cost design and validation activity in its new laboratory testing facilities, with the support of partners including Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells, UPS Systems, the University of Southampton and the Manufacturing Engineering Centre at Cardiff University, which is essential to meet the cost and performance targets for a commercially viable system.
ACAL Energy is the developer of affordable and reliable fuel cell engines based on a platinum free cathode technology that will be a clean and economically sensible alternative to diesel and gasoline generators.
