Free Seminar Forum Timetable (Version March 08, 2006) 30KB
	Monday, March 13	Tuesday, March 14
	Theme Bloc 1: Clean Air	Theme Bloc 3: Infrastructure / Vehicles
10.00- 10.30am	Introductory speech: Jerome Hinkle, VP/Director of Policy and Government Affairs, National Hydrogen Association Hydrogen Highlights - What's in the Energy Policy Act of 2005
10.30- 11.00am	Key Note: Analisa Bevan, Chief, Sustainable Transportation Technologies Branch, California Air Resources Board California - the State of Clean Air Technology	Key Note: Jerome Hinkle, VP/Director of Policy and Government Affairs, National Hydrogen Association Hydrogen Highlights - What's in the Energy Policy Act of 2005
11.00- 11.30am	Eric Apfelbach, President & CEO, Virent Energy Systems Operation of an integrated 10kW Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) genset and a Renewable Hydrogen & fuel gas (SuperNatural(TM) Gas) APR system	Jaco Reijerkerk, Linde AG / Lindes Gas Division Building public filling stations in Europe
11.30- 12.00am	R. Paul Williamson, Alternative Energy and Hydrogen R&D, University of Montana Montana’s Hydrogen Economy, One State at a Time	Pana Ratana, Business Development Manager, Shell Hydrogen Shell Hydrogen Lighthouse Vision and Roll-out Plan
12.00- 12.30pm	Kareem Afzal, Pdc Machines Inc. A Breath of Fresh Air - Pdc Machines Compressing It’s Way Towards a Cleaner Future	Ricky Gujral, CEO, Hydrogen Power Inc. Tomorrow’s Fuel Today (TM)
12.30- 01.00pm	Brad Smith, Asset Development & Operations Manager, Shell Hydrogen Shell Hydrogen Operation Excellence and Safety Messages	Margaret Steinbugler, Manager, Transportation Fuel Cell Product Development, UTC Fuel Cells Developing, integrating, and fielding fuel cell power plants for automobiles and buses
01.00- 01.30pm	Frank Koch, Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Network NRW The Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Network Northrhine-Westfalia	Brandon Burnette and Steve Donaldson, UND Society for Energy Alternatives Subzero IV H2
	Theme Bloc 2: Technological Challenges
01.30- 02.00pm	Key Note: Robert Gray, CEO, HyRadix The Future is Now: Developments in Hydrogen Reforming Solutions	Jacques Smolenaars, Hygear, "The infrastructure compatibility" On site hydrogen generation at fueling stations
02.00- 02.30pm	Durai Swamy, Director Research and Development, Intelligent Energy Intelligent Energy's Energy Station	Brandon Park, Chief Technology Officer, Hydrogen Labs Hydrogen Vehicles TODAY!
02.30- 03.00pm	Thomas Janowski, Andreas Hofer Hochdrucktechnik GmbH Dry-running, hydraulically driven, piston compressor for 14.500 psi (1.000 bar) hydrogen service	Don Karner, President ETEC (Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation) GEN II Hydrogen Fueling Station
03.00- 03.30pm	Thomas Jordan, Head of Safety Technology, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Integration of European Hydrogen Safety Research	Elisabeth Wasserle, Product Manager, MST Technology GmbH Innovative Gas Monitoring Modules for Hydrogen Detection
03.30- 04.00pm	Albert B. Stubbmann, Vice President Sales and Marketing, Power + Energy, Inc. Next-Generation Membrane Reactors for Hydrogen Separation	Bill Crilly, Sales & Business Development Director, Generation -The Americas, Hydrogenics Advancements in On-site Hydrogen Production
04.00- 04.30pm	Kartik Shah, Senior Applications Engineer, ESI Group Multi-Physics Modeling - for Better Design of Fuel Cells	Jim Langlais, Pressure Products Industries Hydrogen Compressors

Presentation details

March 13, 10.00-10.30am
Introductory speech: Jerome Hinkle, VP/Director of Policy and Government Affairs, National Hydrogen Association
Hydrogen Highlights - What's in the Energy Policy Act of 2005
Title VIII-Hydrogen, the "Spark M. Matsunaga Hydrogen Act of 2005", includes much new and expanded authority for research, development and demonstration programs in the Department of Energy. Title VII-Vehicles and Fuels, includes two sections for federal and state purchase of vehicles, stationary cells and fueling systems as an early-adopter, market transition mechanism. These authorities augment and replace the strong foundation of the President's hydrogen Initiative from Fiscal Year 2004, which has a five year commitment. Signed into law by the President on August 8, 2005, EPAct 05 includes many other H2 efforts.  Today’s presentation will summarize a briefing from September 2005, done by a panel of experts and Senate staff who wrote the titles, and sponsored by the Senate Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Caucus. This highlights the major H2 provisions, placing them in the context of both program management and public investment in accelerating the evolution of technology. Further discussion will explore the FY 2007 DoE budget for hydrogen.

March 13, 10.30-11.00am
Key Note: Analisa Bevan, Chief, Sustainable Transportation Technologies Branch, California Air Resources Board
California - the State of Clean Air Technology
For many years California has worked to bring cleaner vehicle technologies to the market. This presentation will cover how and why California is moving toward a hydrogen economy, and the important role of near and mid term advanced technologies in the transition.

March 13, 11.00-11.30am
Eric Apfelbach, President & CEO, Virent Energy Systems
Operation of an integrated 10kW Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) genset and a Renewable Hydrogen & fuel gas (SuperNatural(TM) Gas) APR system
Virent Energy Systems designed, fabricated and started up a 10kW, grid connected ICE genset that was fueled by a hydrogen rich reformate stream from an integrated Aqueous Phase Reforming(APR) System. The CO2 neutral fuel gas is produced from glycerol (a biodiesel waste stream). This presentation will summarize the theory of design and the overall performance of the system.

March 13, 11.30-12.00am
R. Paul Williamson, Alternative Energy and Hydrogen R&D, University of Montana
Montana’s Hydrogen Economy, One State at a Time
Montana is one of the best positioned states in the Nation to foster in a hydrogen economy with enough natural, renewable and human resources to provide secure, safe, and reliable energy for cities and towns across the country.  We will overview the political, educational and projectp developments that are taking place in Montana to institute this energy paradigm shift and solicit input from participants as to how we can enhance hydrogen development in support of business, the economy, education and national security.

March 13, 12.00-12.30pm
Kareem Afzal, Pdc Machines Inc.
A Breath of Fresh Air - Pdc Machines Compressing It’s Way Towards a Cleaner Future
Pdc’s diaphragm compressors provide contamination-free and leak-tight gas compression. Clients include majority of onsite hydrogen production, delivery and storage. Discharge pressures of 3,600, 7000, 12,000, 15,000 psi and more. Horsepower 1 to 250 hp, Flow rate 0.6 SCFM to 1177 SCFM. Can comply with CE regulations.

March 13, 12.30-1.00pm
Brad Smith, Asset Development & Operations Manager, Shell Hydrogen
Shell Hydrogen Operation Excellence and Safety Messages
Shell Hydrogen will describe its operations program in use today for retail hydrogen refueling projects and how this program will help shape requirements for commercialized facilities in the future. Safety, control, and monitoring systems comprise a significant part of an operations program and will be further discussed.

March 13, 1.00-1.30pm
Frank Koch, Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Network NRW
The Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Network Northrhine-Westfalia
The Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Network Nordrhein-Westfalen (FCHN NRW) is Europe’s largest network in this field with  300 members from industry and science. Their products and services cover the whole value chain of hydrogen. Among NRW’s strengths are system components specially designed for fuel cells. 60 fuel cell and hydrogen projects have been funded by the NRW State’s government.

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March 13, 1.30-2.00pm
Key Note: Robert Gray, CEO, HyRadix
The Future is Now: Developments in Hydrogen Reforming Solutions
Through design innovation and sound engineering, HyRadix has developed a proven hydrogen solution based on catalytic autothermal reforming (ATR). The recently commercialized Aptus (TM) H2 Generator builds on HyRadix's practical experience gained from the development and progress of California's most Successful reformer-based fueling station. HyRadix's next steps toward hydrogen production from bio-fuels will also be discussed.

March 13, 2.00-2.30pm
Durai Swamy, Director Research and Development, Intelligent Energy
Intelligent Energy's Energy Station
Intelligent Energy’s Compact Hydrogen Generator technology provides a fuel flexible solution for production at the sub kilowatt level using ethanol, methanol, propane, ammonia or low sulfur diesel as fuel. At the larger scale, the Hestia hydrogen generation platform is a highly efficient system, continuously producing 5 to 50kWe of high purity hydrogen (~99.99%). The Hestia unit is both scalable and fuel-flexible currently running on low-sulfur diesel fuel.

March 13, 2.30-3.00pm
Thomas Janowski, Andreas Hofer Hochdrucktechnik GmbH
Dry-running, hydraulically driven, piston compressor for 14.500 psi (1.000 bar) hydrogen service
For all process technologies where oil free gas compression is required, dry running piston compressors will be used. These machines operates without any oil lubrication in the gas chambers. The piston motion is performed by crank drive or hydraulic drive. The cylinders are separated by double distance pieces from the drive.

March 13, 3.00-3.30pm
Thomas Jordan, Head of Safety Technology, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Integration of European Hydrogen Safety Research
Due to several historical and practical reasons the research related to hydrogen safety has been severly dispersed especially in Europe.Therefore the European Commission supports the integration of the relevant efforts in the Network of Excellence HySafe. The presentation will show which and how current foci have been selected, which project work is conducted, and what kind of dissemination activities are under way. The international cooperation and the long term planning will be described.

March 13, 3.30-4.00pm
Al Stubbmann & Authors: Dr. Peter Bossard, Dr. Jacques Mettes
Next-Generation Membrane Reactors for Hydrogen Separation
Power+Energy will review performance of its palladium alloy membrane reactor/ hydrogen separator products for fuel processing applications. Processors will efficiently deliver high purity hydrogen from a variety of fuel sources for fuel cell and related applications. Capacities are available from 50 watts to 500 kW. Sulfur tolerant models available.

March 13, 4.00-4.30pm
Kartik Shah, Senior Applications Engineer, ESI Group
Multi-Physics Modeling - for Better Design of Fuel Cells
Computational modeling is now becoming standard practice within the industry for design and optimization of fuel cells. Such modeling can be beneficial in understanding the precise relationship between operating conditions / material properties and the performance (voltage-current characteristics) of the cell. Ultimately, modeling can aid in designing more efficient fuel cells and in reducing cost. CFD-ACE+ has all models necessary to accurately predict the performance of Fuel Cells. All three types of fuel cell modeling that are used in industries viz. PEMFC (Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell) , SOFC (Solid Oxide Fuel Cell) and DMFC (Direct Methanol Fuel Cell) using CFD-ACE+ are shown with validation and results. The presentation will show how challenging engineering problems can be addressed using CFD-ACE+ modeling to optimize the performance of Fuel Cells.

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March 14, 10.30-11.00am
Key Note: Jerome Hinkle, VP/Director of Policy and Government Affairs, National Hydrogen Association
Hydrogen Highlights - What's in the Energy Policy Act of 2005
Title VIII-Hydrogen, the "Spark M. Matsunaga Hydrogen Act of 2005", includes much new and expanded authority for research, development and demonstration programs in the Department of Energy. Title VII-Vehicles and Fuels, includes two sections for federal and state purchase of vehicles, stationary cells and fueling systems as an early-adopter, market transition mechanism. These authorities augment and replace the strong foundation of the President's hydrogen Initiative from Fiscal Year 2004, which has a five year commitment. Signed into law by the President on August 8, 2005, EPAct 05 includes many other H2 efforts.  Today’s presentation will summarize a briefing from September 2005, done by a panel of experts and Senate staff who wrote the titles, and sponsored by the Senate Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Caucus. This highlights the major H2 provisions, placing them in the context of both program management and public investment in accelerating the evolution of technology. Further discussion will explore the FY 2007 DoE budget for hydrogen.

March 14, 11.00-11.30am
Jaco Reijerkerk, Linde AG / Lindes Gas Division
Building public filling stations in Europe
Linde will describe infrastructure build-up based on reference projects in Europe. The presentation will cover several possible refuelling stations concepts. Implementing a network of public refueling stations in California is a challenging task. The objective of the presentation is to show solutions that contribute to the critical endeavor.

March 14, 11.30-12.00am
Pana Ratana, Business Development Manager, Shell Hydrogen
Shell Hydrogen Lighthouse Vision and Roll-out Plan
Shell Hydrogen is leading the Lighthouse Program in California and North East US to create a network of publicly accessible retail hydrogen stations between 2006 and 2015. The presentation will explain program details in California, how Shell Hydrogen plans to accomplish this effort and opportunities for equipment suppliers to participate.

March 14, 12.00-12.30pm
Ricky Gujral, CEO, Hydrogen Power Inc.
Tomorrow’s Fuel Today (TM)
Hydrogen Power Inc. offers viable solutions to the problems of storing and transporting hydrogen gas, problems defining economic and safety concerns. This environmentally-benign, cost effective technology generates pressurized hydrogen on-site, on-demand, eliminating the use of energy intensive compressors or liquefaction processes and is highly adaptable to a variety of industries.

March 14, 12.30-1.00pm
Margaret Steinbugler, Manager, Transportation Fuel Cell Product Development, UTC Fuel Cells
Developing, integrating, and fielding fuel cell power plants for automobiles and buses
This talk will discuss developing, integrating, and fielding fuel cell power plants for automobiles and buses including design considerations, predicted and measured performance, and lessons learned.

March 14, 1.00-1.30pm
Brandon Burnette and Steve Donaldson, University of North Dakota, Society for Energy Alternatives
Subzero IV H2
The Society for Energy Alternatives is a student organization at the University of North Dakota.  The organization was the first student group to design and build a hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicle. Subzero IV H2 is our way of informing the public about alternative energies such as hydrogen.

March 14, 1.30-2.00pm
Jacques Smolenaars, HyGear, "The infrastructure compatibility company"
On site hydrogen generation at fueling stations
HyGear developed a small scale hydrogen generator suitable to produce high purity (99.999%) hydrogen at fueling stations using natural gas as feed-stock. The system comprises a highly integrated steam reformer, a mini-PSA, an off-gas vessle and a hydrogen buffer. The system has been tested extensively and is ready for market engagement.

March 14, 2.00-2.30pm
Brandon Park, Chief Technology Officer, Hydrogen Labs
Hydrogen Vehicles TODAY!
Overview of present Hydrogen Vehicle technology, including real
world vehicles currently using Hydrogen. This presentation will focus on
practical applications for Hydrogen Vehicle Conversion technology developed by
Hydrogen Labs which is available Today!

March 14, 2.30-3.00pm
Donald Karner, President ETEC (Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation)
GEN II Hydrogen Fueling Station
Current Hydrogen Fueling Station designs are modeled after Chemical Plant designs rather than Public Commercial Fueling Stations.  The GEN II Hydrogen Fueling Station employs new strategies that incorporate a reduced footprint and inherent safety designs allowing zero setback requirements and minimal reliance on worker expertise for operation and maintenance.

March 14, 3.00-3.30pm
Elisabeth Wasserle, Product Manager, MST Technology GmbH
Innovative Gas Monitoring Modules for Hydrogen Detection
MST Technology GmbH offers small gas monitoring modules including the H2 Sensormodules, and Control Units designed specifically for hydrogen detection in automotive fuel cell applications. The main features of the H2 Sensormodules are a wide measuring range and temperature range.

March 14, 3.30-4.00pm
Bill Crilly, Sales & Business Development Director, Generation -The Americas, Hydrogenics
Advancements in On-site Hydrogen Production
The choices hydrogen users have continue to evolve as new technologies and market applications emerge. Hydrogen production options for traditional industrial applications, and new fueling and energy applications need to keep pace with these new opportunities and the challenges presented by the shift in end users thinking toward on-site production alternatives. Hydrogenics continues to address this dynamic with their core electrolyser product line and the development of their capabilities around reformer based hydrogen systems. This presentation provides an insight into current and future on-site hydrogen production developments at Hydrogenics.

March 14, 4.00-4.30pm
Jim Langlais, Pressure Products Industries
Hydrogen Compressors
PPI diaphragm compressors are currently operating in Hydrogen fueling stations worldwide at pressures to 900 bar. PPI, a leader in Hydrogen compressor technology for 50 years provides leak-tight and non-contaminating gas compression. PPI's line of diaphragm compressors includes single and multi-stage models with displacements to 400 cfm (680 m3/hr).