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HARC TESTING PLUG POWER FUEL CELL SYSTEM.

Publication: Industrial Environment
Publication Date: 01-JUL-02 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
A consortium organized by the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC), The Woodlands, Texas, has successfully installed a 5kW proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell system designed and manufactured by Plug Power (Nasdaq:PLUG). The system is being tested as part of a project to demonstrate the viability of fuel cells as a source of safe, clean, and efficient electric power.

"The Plug Power system is the first in the HARC study to be located outdoors," said Bruce Rauhe, project director of the HARC consortium. "We are reproducing real-world conditions by installing it outside the laboratory on a concrete pad and fueling it with pipeline natural gas."

The system will operate in parallel to the grid, and HARC will integrate the fuel cell with a separate water heating system to evaluate the...

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