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Membership
In addition to having access to Ohio's largest fuel cell network, partners of WFCG receive discounted rates for service. Visit www.wfcg.org to find out more.
To submit materials or information for Hot Off the Grid, contact Lyndy Rutkowski at lyndy@case.edu. |
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Partner Facilities
Wright
Fuel Cell Center accommodates to specific fuel cell testing needs,
in addition, our partner's fuel cell facilities each have
their own area of expertise:
Case
Wright Fuel Cell Center
CAPI: Analytical instruments
SOFC Lab
Cleveland State University
SOFC Lab
Ohio State University
Fuel Cell and Catalyst Research Lab
Stark State College of Technology
Fuel Cell Prototyping Center
University of Toledo
Designing new Fuel Cell Lab
Currently based in Engineering Labs |
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HydroGen Corporation Teams With WFCG and Expands in Ohio
HydroGen, a WFCG founding partner, had an
impressive year of accomplishments in 2006. The company has hired
six high-level employees housed at WFCG, establishing new
departments in Advanced Manufacturing Development,
and Sales/Projects. These departments are located at WFCG
headquarters, where employment is anticipated to grow to 10 employees
in the near term, plus several more over the course of the year. This
is in addition to the 65+ full time staff the company employs
in New York and Pennsylvania. |
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HydroGen
Advanced Manufacturing and Sales/Projects team: Jeff Kulpa (not
pictured), Bob Wilhelm, Alan Hladis, Andy Thomas, John Hughes, James
Ellis (from left to right). The team is established at WFCG’s
Case Western Reserve University location. |
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Significant
developments have been made in the HydroGen's Ohio-focused
development program, including the company's first full-scale 400 kW
commercial demonstration plant at ASHTA Chemicals (located in
Ashtabula), as well as the company's planned Advanced PAFC
Manufacturing Facility, which is targeted for the end of 2008.
Developments include:
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Completion of a contract for the company’s
first full-scale 400kW commercial demonstration power plant at the site
of ASHTA Chemicals, Inc's chlor-alkali plant in Ashtabula, OH. In
addition, HydroGen commenced construction of this plant and expects to
complete construction in the first half of 2007. The cooperative
project with ASHTA Chemicals is critical for HydroGen and for Ohio’s
fuel cell industry. There is opportunity to create
first-to-market advantage in delivering a complete PAFC power plant to
a customer in a key market segment.
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Formal
initiation of the company's work on their Advanced Manufacturing
Development program, under support of HydroGen equity and a generous
contract award from the State of Ohio Third Frontier Fuel Cell Program.
This program involves active, intensive collaborations with numerous
Ohio organizations, including EMTEC, GrafTech, Storm Software,
Precision Energy and Technology, and others.
On these developments Alan Haldis, Manager of Advanced Manufacturing noted:
"Manufacturing our fuel cells at the lowest possible cost will
be a key to our success. We are using all of the available tools to
minimize the product cost from the onset, such as factory simulation
and process optimization, lean manufacturing techniques, statistical
methods to reduce variation and developing strategic relationships with
our supply chain. WFCG is our home as we execute the development
work to design, select the site, build and launch our new Ohio-based
PAFC manufacturing facility. We are looking forward to the
continued relationship with WFCG, which is a key piece of our cost
reduction plan for advanced manufacturing."
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President Josh Tosteson with HydroGen 400 kW air-cooled PAFC module.
The cooperative project with ASHTA Chemicals
is critical for HydroGen and for Ohio’s fuel cell industry. There
is opportunity to create first-to-market advantage in delivering a
complete PAFC power plant to a customer in a key market segment.
President Josh Tosteson noted that “WFCG
has been both a crucial venue and a facilitator of our development work
in the state of Ohio. The facility has provided valuable space for us
as we anchored corporate headquarters in the state, and enabled us to
quickly bring on board both a top-tier Projects group led by Jeff
Kulpa, and our new Manager of Advanced Manufacturing, Alan Hladis. WFCG
has also facilitated many of our interactions with organizations that
have become key early partners for us as we prepare to make the
transition to advanced PAFC manufacturing in Ohio."
Going
forward, HydroGen is working with WFCG to construct and utilize
full-sized 3-cell, atmospheric test stands, which will be critical for
validation of new materials, catalyst, and other design features of our
PAFC that relate to the transition to advanced manufacturing. |
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Rendering of HydroGen’s full-scale 400kW
commercial demonstration power plant at the site of ASHTA Chemicals,
Inc's chlor-alkali plant in Ashtabula, Ohio. |
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MISSION STATEMENT
To enable the commercialization of fuel cell technologies by marshaling Ohio's unique industrial and intellectual resources
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