Deals for tests on hydrogen fuel system

CLEAN power company ITM Power has signed deals for logistics firm DHL and London Stansted Airport to try out its new hydrogen refuelling system.

The Sheffield-based firm, which has developed an electrolyser system to convert electricity into hydrogen gas, said DHL and Stansted agreed to test its transportable high-pressure refuelling unit, called HFuel.

The trials start in 2011 and will see two hydrogen-fuelled Ford Transit vans run on fuel generated by the portable refueller.

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Supported by a Technology Strategy Board grant and ITM's partners Gateway to London and Revolve Technologies, trials will take place at

sites in and around London and at participating companies' sites.

ITM chief executive Graham Cooley said: "We are delighted that such high-profile trans-port logistics companies have agreed to join the Hydrogen On Site Trials (HOST) programme.

"They will appraise the potential of our technology to de-carbonise return to base transport logistics vehicles and address the important sustainability issue of eliminating the carbon footprint of their fuel supply.

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"The trials are an important part of demonstrating the potential of ITM Power's HFuel technology to the marketplace and we expect other transport logistics companies to be joining the HOST scheme in the near future.'

ITM hopes to sign up more companies, who will get one week's free trial of HFuel and two Ford Transits, and an option to lease both HFuel and vehicles for extra weeks.

The demonstrations will be run and managed by ITM staff.

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