International
Conference, Tuesday, April 12, 2005
"Hydrogen + Fuel Cells on their way to commercialisation"
FuelCell Energy, Inc.
Company
Information: FuelCell Energy, Inc.
FuelCell Energy, Inc., based in Danbury, Connecticut,
is a world leader in the development and manufacture of high
temperature fuel cells for electric power generation. FuelCell
Energy developed its patented Direct FuelCell technology for
stationary power plants with the U.S. Department of Energy
through its Office of Fossil Energy's National Energy Technology
Laboratory. The sub-megawatt fuel cell power plant is a collaborative
effort using Direct FuelCell® technology of FuelCell Energy
and the HotModule® balance of plant design of MTU CFC
Solutions, GmbH, a subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler. FuelCell
Energy is also developing next generation high temperature
fuel cell products, such as a diesel fueled marine Ship Service
Fuel Cell, a combined-cycle DFC/Turbine® power plant and
solid oxide fuel cells for applications up to 100 kilowatts.
More information is available at http://www.fuelcellenergy.com/.
Jerry D. Leitman
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director FuelCell
Energy, Inc., USA
Mr. Leitman is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
of FuelCell Energy, Inc. Mr. Leitman joined FuelCell Energy
in the Fall of 1997 as President and CEO to focus on commercializing
the Company's leading technologies in fuel cells. Mr. Leitman's
background combines strong engineering and business education
with broad experience in marketing and sales.Mr. Leitman's
experience in the last 15 years involved products serving
industry world-wide. He has extensive experience in commercializing
technologies, market development, and globalizing businesses
and business processes.Prior to joining FCE, Mr. Leitman was
President of the Air Pollution Control Business Area of ABB
Asea Brown Boveri where he established the company as the
world-wide market leader. He was previously President and
CEO of the U.S. operations of the Swedish Flakt Group and
Executive Vice President of the parent group in Sweden. In
addition to air pollution control systems for the power industry,
he was responsible for businesses including paint finishing
systems for the automotive industry, industrial drying systems
primarily for the pulp and paper industry, process recovery
systems for the metallurgical industry, and waste incineration
systems.Mr. Leitman received his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical
Engineering in 1965 and 1967 from the Georgia Institute of
Technology. He also attended the Executive Development Program
at the University of Tennessee in 1977 and the Advanced Management
program at Harvard University in 1987.Mr. Leitman also serves
as a Director on the Esterline Technologies, Inc. Board of
Directors and is Chairman of their Compensation Committee
and a member of the Executive Committee.
Direct Fuel Cell: Cogeneration of Electricity
and Hydrogen
FuelCell Energy’s Direct FuelCell® (DFC®) power
plant is a high temperature carbonate fuel cell technology
with an internal reforming feature that provides greater electrical
fuel efficiency (45 percent) than low temperature fuel cell
systems (30 to 40 percent) such as proton exchange membrane
and phosphoric acid. This is because the DFC power plant creates
the hydrogen it needs directly from readily available hydrocarbon
fuels, such as natural gas and wastewater treatment gas, within
the fuel cell module. Pure hydrogen from external processing
equipment is not needed. In addition, FCE’s DFC products
provide a useable waste heat by-product and depending on the
application, location and load size, can achieve an overall
thermal energy efficiency of up to 70 to 80 percent. The DFC
development and commercialization effort has culminated in
commercial offering of three products: DFC300A - nominal rating
of 250 kW, DFC1500 – nominal rating of 1000 kW, and
DFC3000 – nominal rating of 2000 kW.
To date, over 35 units have been installed at customer locations
throughout the world in the following vertical market segments
that we believe offer the opportunity for repeatable business:
industrial and municipal waste water treatment facilities,
hotels, universities, manufacturing, mission critical/data
communication centers, government (including post offices),
grid support, hospitals/clinics and prisons. FCE is focusing
on customer applications that provide the opportunities for
repeatable business. Cumulative output at customer sites is
expected to grow exponentially from 62 million kWh in 1Q 2005
to 122 million kWh in 1Q 2006.
In addition to the generation of electricity and high quality
waste heat, DFC can be utilized for on-site supply of hydrogen
for automobile fill-up stations or industrial use. Depending
on the site requirements, relative production of electricity,
hydrogen and heat can be varied. System concepts to achieve
this will be presented in the paper.
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