Twelve Organizations Join the NHA

AC Transit

AC Transit is the public bus system serving the 13 cities and adjacent unincorporated communities in 390 square miles along the eastern shores of San Francisco and San Pablo Bays in California. This includes Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Castro Valley, El Cerrito, Emeryville, Fremont, Hayward, Newark, Oakland, Piedmont, Richmond, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, San Francisco (Transbay Terminal Only), and San Pablo.

Contacts: (1) Mr. Jaimie R. Levin, Marketing & Communications Manager, 1600 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA 94612, U.S.A. Tel: +1.510.891.7244. Fax: +1.510.891. 7205. eMail: jlevin@actransit.org. (2) Mr. Doug Byrne, Maintenance Supervisor, 10626 East 14th Street, Central Maintenance Division, Oakland, CA 94612, U.S.A. Tel: +1.510.577.8885. Fax: +1.510.577. 8862. eMail: dbyrne@actransit.org. Website: www.actransit.org.

Alchemix Corporation

Alchemix recently formed a wholly owned subsidiary, H2 Technologies Corporation, to commercialize its hydrogen technologies. Alchemix filed for patent protection in March 2001 covering its discoveries relating to the low-cost production of hydrogen, methane-containing gas, ammonia, and the treatment of coal. H2 Technologies intends to license its hydrogen process as an enabler to improve other industrial processes, such as fuel cells, oil refining, ammonia production, and generation of electricity from coal and other hydrocarbon fuels, including municipal waste. The company is seeking launch customers in targeted industry sectors. A pilot plant facility is being constructed at Alchemix Corporation’s technical subsidiary, Pittsburgh Mineral & Environmental Technologies, Inc. Alchemix and H2 Technologies are headquartered near Phoenix in Carefree, Arizona.

Contacts: (1) Ms. Michelle Hicks, Office Manager, P.O. Box 1150, Carefree, AZ 85377, U.S.A. Tel: +1.480.488.3388. Fax: +1.480.488.3881. eMail: mhicks@ alchemix.net. (2) Mr. Michael Gregory, Executive Vice President, P.O. Box 1150, Carefree, AZ 85377, U.S.A. Tel: +1.480.488. 3388. Fax: +1.480.488.3881. eMail: mgregory@alchemix.net. Website: www.alchemix.net.

Avista Laboratories, Inc.

Avista Labs is a leader and innovator in developing Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cell technology and is dedicated to commercializing a broad array of fuel cell products. The company’s unique, modular, fuel cell was designed with the end-user in mind to provide power that is reliable, simple, and easy to maintain. Avista Labs fuel cells fit a wide range of power applications as the modular unit is highly scaleable and can be configured to match individual customer needs. Our products will serve numerous markets, including premium power, residential, small commercial, and industrial.

Contacts: (1) Mr. David Holmes, Director of Application Engineering, 15913 East Euclid Avenue, Spokane, WA 99216, U.S.A. Tel: +1.509.228.6582. Fax: +1.509.228. 6510. eMail: dholmes@avistalabs.com. (2) Ms. Kim Zentz, President, 15913 East Euclid Avenue, Spokane, WA 99216, U.S.A. Tel: +1.509.495.8600. Fax: +1.509.495. 2033. eMail: kim.zentz@avistalabs.com. Website: www.avistalabs.com.

CryoFuel Systems, Inc.

Contact: Dr. John A. Barclay, President and CEO, 14815 Chain Lake Road, Suite A, Monroe, WA 98272, U.S.A. Tel: +1.360. 794.3755. Fax: +1.360.794.4636. eMail: jbarclay@cryofuelsystems.com. Website: www.cryofuelsystems.com.

Ergenics, Inc.

Ergenics specializes in the application of reversible metal hydride alloys to solid-state hydrogen storage, hydrogen compression, long-life rechargeable batteries, and heat pumps. Ergenics manufactures a line of standard solid-state hydrogen storage vessels—used mostly to supply hydrogen to fuel cells—and designs and supplies custom storage vessels.

The company also supplies a unique hydrogen compressor that uses heat energy to passively boost hydrogen to pressures over the 5,000 psi being considered for hydrogen-fueled vehicles. Products under development include a low-pressure, metal hydrogen, high-cycling battery for hybrid electric vehicle energy storage and a heat pump for refrigeration and air conditioning that uses hydrogen as the working fluid and operates at twice the efficiency of conventional cycles.

Contacts: (1) Mr. David DaCosta, President and CEO, 247 Margaret King Avenue, Ringwood, NJ 07456, U.S.A. Tel: +1.973. 962.4480. Fax: +1.973.962.4325. eMail: dacosta@warwick.net. (2) Mr. David Tragna, Hydride Project Manager, 247 Margaret King Avenue, Ringwood, NJ 07456, U.S.A. Tel: +1.973.962.4480. Fax: +1.973.926.4325. eMail: dtragna@ warwick.net. Website: www.ergenics.com.

General Motors Corporation

General Motors Corporation (GM) is the world’s number one maker of cars and trucks, including the Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, EV1, GMC, Hummer, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saab, and Saturn brands. GM also produces cars through its Holden, Opel, and Vauxhall units, and through affiliations with Isuzu and Suzuki. GM has agreed to take 20 percent stakes in Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru) and Fiat Auto (Alfa Romeo, Lancia). Non-automotive operations include Allison Transmission, GM Locomotive, and Hughes Electronics. Subsidiary GMAC provides financing, insurance, and real estate services. e-GM shows the Company’s commitment to innovation in the e-commerce world, whether via its OnStar system, or websites GM BuyPower and GMAC B2B Credit, or its participation in the industry-wide supplier exchange, Covisint. GM is actively pursuing fuel cell-based transportation system research and development at its Global Alternative Propulsion Center, which has facilities in Warren, Michigan; Rochester, New York; and Mainz-Kastel, Germany.

Contacts: (1) Mr. Raj Choudhury, Manager for Business Development, Peter Sander Strasse 34.L, Mainz Kastel 55252, Germany Tel: +49.614.276.5764. Fax: +49.614.276.6151. eMail: raj.choudhury @de.opel.com. (2) Mr. Greg Ruselowski, Director of Planning & Finance, 30500 Mound Road, Warren, MI 48090-9055, U.S.A. Tel: +1.810.986.6019. Fax: +1.810.986.9359. eMail: greg.ruselowski@gm.com. Website: www.gm.com.

Hunt Research Foundation

The Hunt Research Foundation is a privately funded, 7,000-square-foot research facility located in Pass Christian, Mississippi, that has been in operation since 1984. Past efforts have resulted in a number of patents and technologies regarding the combined super-saturation of oxygen into water and the pumping of water from deep geothermal wells having constant temperature for intensive fish farming and the development of specialized fish and shellfish hatchery techniques that led to the first commercial production of redfish in the world. The Foundation is now dedicated to alternative energy, especially hydrogen, atmospheric heat and wind and geothermal energy, and hydrogen and heat storage.

Robert D. Hunt, the Chairman, recently applied for a patent on the Hydrogen Thermolysis ReactorTM that may be capable of disassociating water into hydrogen and oxygen with high efficiency by carrying out the thermolysis process within the combustor of a modified hydrogen gas-turbine engine. The engine eliminates the compressor turbine that consumes two-thirds of the force of the power turbine in a conventional gas fired turbine engine. Energy not absorbed by the water to accomplish thermolysis is available for the production of electricity. A portion of the hydrogen produced is burned to create the necessary heat for thermolysis and to generate electricity and a portion of the electricity produced is used to operate the steam electrolyzer.

Other patent applications include: The development of a hydrogen and oxygen storage battery using a carbon 60/platinum alloy having specialized electrochemical properties that functions much like a solid oxide fuel cell with solid-state storage.

Contacts: (1) Mr. Robert D. Hunt, Chairman, 23707 Redfish Lane, Pass Christian, MS 39571, U.S.A. Tel: +1.228.452.7917. Fax: +1.228.452.0972. eMail: huntband@aol.com. (2) Ms. Dianne Hunt, Secretary/Treasurer, 23707 Redfish Lane, Pass Christian, MS 39571, U.S.A. Tel: +1.228.452.7917. Fax: +1.228.452.0972.

IIT Research Institute

IITRI (IIT Research Institute) is a not-for-profit research and engineering company that effectively combines analytical expertise and applied research to provide extreme depth in our areas of expertise supplied by the best scientists and engineers in the industry.

For 64 years, IITRI has honed its resources to solve problems of national significance for the benefit of public health, safety, and well-being. We back our studies with hands-on fieldwork; our laboratory and testing facilities are among the best in the world; our scientists and engineers feel their work is their play. Our more than 1,500 engineers, scientists and technical personnel regularly solve scientific and engineering problems that often involve the use of sensitive, highly classified, or proprietary information for both government and industry.

Contacts: (1) Mr. Barrie Peters, 215 Wynn Drive, Suite 101, Huntsville, AL 35805, U.S.A. Tel: +1.256.382.4790. Fax: +1.256.382.4701. eMail: bpeters@iitri.org. (2) Dr. Carol L. Schutte, Division Manager, Advanced Materials Division, 1750 Tysons Blvd., Suite 1300, McLean, VA 22102-4213, U.S.A. Tel: +1.703.269.3453. Fax: +1.703.714.6511. eMail: cschutte@iitri.org. Website: www.iitri.org.

QuestAir Technologies

QuestAir products purify gases—primarily hydrogen and oxygen—for a wide range of applications. QuestAir’s patented fast-cycle PSA technologies treat gases more efficiently, less expensively, and more reliably in less space than any other method.

QuestAir is commercializing its technologies in the existing industrial gas market and in emerging clean-energy technologies. Compact on-board oxygen enrichment and hydrogen purification provides strategic advantages for fuel cell engines. Hydrogen purification enables hydrogen refueling stations to meet market-critical specifications.

Contacts: (1) Mr. Carl Hunter, Senior Vice President, 6961 Russell Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5J 4R8, Canada. Tel: +1.604.454.1134. Fax: +1.604.454.1137. eMail: hunter@questairinc.com. (2) Mr. Mark Kirby, Vice President Business Development, 6961 Russell Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5J 4R8, Canada. Tel: +1.604.454.1134. Fax: +1.604.454.1137. eMail: kirby@questairinc.com. Website: www.questairinc.com.

Startech Environmental Corporation

Startech is an environmental equipment company whose Plasma Converter (PC) is essentially an electrochemical system that, while safely destroying wastes, even hazardous wastes, economically and efficiently converts those materials into useful and valuable commodity products. The Plasma Converter irreversibly destroys all feedstock by its process of molecular dissociation and forms Plasma Converted Gas (PCG), a synthesis-fuel gas, rich in hydrogen and carbon-fuel species. PCG is a valuable commodity as it is, but StarCell (Startech’s ceramic membrane technology) increases its value by its ability to pull out the hydrogen in the PCG. StarCell Hydrogen™ can feed fuel cells and hydrogen engines. The combination of the PC with StarCell can produce hydrogen on a large scale from the wastes of the world, and at a very low cost.

Contact: Mr. Joseph S. Klimek, Executive Vice President, 15 Old Danbury Road, Wilton, CT 06897, U.S.A. Tel: +1.203.762.2499. Fax: +1.203.761.0839. eMail: jklimek@startech.net. (2) Mr. John R. Celentano, Director, 15 Old Danbury Road, Wilton, CT 06897, U.S.A. Tel: +1.203.762.2499. Fax: +1.203.761.0839. Website: www.startech.net.

Texaco Energy Systems, Inc.

Texaco Energy Systems is actively engaged in developing and commercializing several key enabling technologies through internal development, joint ventures, and equity investments to create new market opportunities for the next generation of clean, efficient, energy systems.

Texaco established Texaco Energy Systems, Inc. (TESI), in 1999 to invest in, support, and develop promising and environmentally beneficial technologies to broaden Texaco’s energy portfolio. Leveraging strengths of a global corporation, TESI is exploring business opportunities in fuel cells and fuel processing, hydrogen storage, hydrocarbons-to-liquids, and alternative fuels. As a technology-based company, Texaco plans to apply energy expertise and proprietary technologies to make these emerging energy options a reality.

Contacts: (1) Mr. Gene Nemanich, Vice President, Fuels, 1111 Bagby Street, Suite 3518, Houston, TX 77002, U.S.A. Tel: +1.713.752.7134. Fax: +1.713.752.4681. eMail: nemanej@texaco.com. (2) Mr. Bob Dempsey, Vice President, Infrastructure, 1111 Bagby Street, Suite 3518, Houston, TX 77002, U.S.A. Tel: +1.713.752.7445. Fax: +1.713.752.4681. eMail: dempsrp@ texaco.com. Website: www.texaco.com.

U.S. Magnegas, Inc.

Contacts: (1) Mr. Michael Toups, Vice President, Business Development, 13100 Belcher Road South, Largo, FL 33773, U.S.A. Tel: +1.727.507.9520. Fax: +1.727. 507.8261. eMail: mtoups@earthfirsttech.com. (2) Mr. Leon Toups, President, 13100 Belcher Road South, Largo, FL 33773, U.S.A. Tel: +1.727.507.9520. Fax: +1.727. 507.8261. eMail: ltoups@earthfirsttech.com. Website: www.magnegas.com.

Victoria University

Contacts: (1) Dr. Michael A. Sek, Head of School of the Built Environment, P.O. Box 14428 MCMC, Melbourne, Vic. 8001, Australia. Tel: +61.3.9688.4227. Fax: +61.3.9688.4139. eMail: michael.sek@vu.edu.au. (2) Mr. Vincent Rouillard, School of the Built Environment, P.O. Box 14428 MCMC, Melbourne, Vic. 8001, Australia. Tel: +61.3.9688.4227. Fax: +61.3.9688. 4139. eMail: vincent.rouillard@vu.edu.au. Website: www.vu.edu.au. ©2001. All Rights Reserved. A Publication of the National Hydrogen Association.
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