DOE Selects Hydrogen Storage Engineering Centre of Excellence

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of the team for negotiation of cost-shared awards to participate in a new Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence. The team will be led by Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina and consists of ten partners including universities, industry and federal laboratories. Subject to availability of funding, DOE expects to provide up to $6 million in fiscal year 2009 for these projects. The Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence is a virtual center that is anticipated to run for approximately 5 years.

The selected teams will address engineering challenges associated with developing low-pressure, materials-based hydrogen storage systems that will enable fuel cell vehicles to meet customer expectations for driving range and performance. These projects will be incorporatedinto the DOE's National Hydrogen Storage Project, which currently focuses on hydrogen storage materials development. The team partners selected for negotiation of awards are:

    -- Savannah River National Laboratory (Lead), Aiken, South Carolina
    -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington
    -- United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, Connecticut
    -- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
    -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
    -- National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado
    -- General Motors Corporation, Warren, Michigan
    -- Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan
    -- Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
    -- Lincoln Composites Inc., Lincoln, Nebraska

Source: Fuel Cell Today