Austin, Texas - February 14, 2006. AirGen Corporation announces a breakthrough development in on-demand hydrogen generation technology. The company has recently demonstrated ambient temperature on-demand hydrogen generation from an aqueous solution. The development is one of many derivative technologies the company has discovered from novel chemistry involving colloidal metal catalysis reactions. Several patents have been filed in the U.S. and internationally covering broad claims in three general applications – bulk hydrogen generation, metal reduction, and on-demand hydrogen generation.
"We believe this technology will open up a new era of chemical research not explored before", stated Dr. Steven Kirschner, Chief Science Officer of AirGen. Initial estimates by the company indicate an energy density approaching 600 Watt-hr/liter of solution, double the current energy density of lithium ion battery technologies. The effective density can increase if the water output from the fuel cell is recycled as feedstock to the reaction. Furthermore, since the process utilizes metals which are commercially available in large quantity at low cost, the cost of the AirGen cell is expected to be significantly lower than competing chemical hydride technologies. The company has demonstrated cells producing hydrogen gas under numerous different selections of metals and colloidal metals. The latest demonstration unit, which has a reaction solution volume of 250mL, has produced hydrogen continuously for 15 days now powering a fuel cell at ambient temperature without any external power input. The company believes the rate generation can be enhanced by a factor of at least five times through enhanced cell designs.
"We are extremely excited about the prospects this development offers the micro fuel cell developers," stated Dr. Linnard Griffin, Chief Executive Officer of AirGen and inventor of AirGen’s technologies. "We have received excellent initial response from key industry players in this field and will work towards establishing a strategic alliance with one or more synergistic partners by the end of this year." The technology has been in development since early 2003; the company believes they are at the beginning of a long term commercialization process which will impact numerous industries on a global basis.
AirGen Corporation, founded in November 2005, is a developer of chemical processes related to hydrogen production and metal reduction. The company’s business model is licensing and partnering with key stakeholders in each of the target market segments its technology addresses.
25-Apr-2007
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Hey Stefan,
Now all of a sudden you can not go to the Texas site. It says it is not found. Big question is WHY?
Posted by: Charles Charles
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04-Aug-2006
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Here is more on the Dr. Linnard Griffin
Hydrogen on Demand cell:
http://www.overunity.com/index.php/topic,321.0.html
and here:
http://www.overunity.com/index.php/topic,518.0.html
This is the best Hydrogen on Demand system
I know of, cause the metals don´t run down and
are just catalysts to split the water !
Posted by: Stefan Hartmann
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09-May-2006
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Congratulations, I have been looking at several Hydrogen production units and have been educating myself on this topic and the varrious attempts to safly solve this problem. My first question is how pure is the Hydrogen your unit produces at this point of development? If it is of a purity that has little or no water have test been done to pump it directly into the PCV intake on the air cleaner of an auto? If so what were the results? Please contact me regarding these topics. Thank you. garykarm1@netzero.com
Posted by: Gary Karm
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20-Feb-2006
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Dear Sirs:
Your research is very interesting. My question to you is, do you see, in the very near future, a small profile hydrogen generator that is able to be encorporated on-board an automobile with the capability of producing enough hydrogen to fill a pressurized 10,000 psi tank in less than ie. 4 hours from a residential 110 current.
I'm not a scientist but it seems to me that hydrogen technology is such a basic science that I don't understand why no one has developed a "Hydrogen On-board Generated and Stored Vehicle" with a closed circuit system that recycles it's own water discharge and is able to be plugged in, overnight. With a recycling capability and the automobile being able to generate it's own electric during daily use thus self perpetuating it's own water and electric, the vehicle would be able to operate with extreme efficiency. Such a vehicle would eliminate the energy middleman and minimize the need for a cumbersome infrastructure and skyrocket the "Hydrogen Era"
Besides plugging the vehicle into a home current I can see parking meters with an electrical outlet at the work place to maintain a hydrogen fill.
That is a compressed hydrogen "Era" utilizing electrolysis. However if I am understanding your technological research, correct me if I'm wrong. You are suggesting that instead of producing hydrogen from electrolysis, you are producing hydrogen using a metalic catalyst. My question to you is how do you turn a catalytic process on and off once it is started. How could a catalytical generator be used as an on-board hydrogen producer to run an automobile?
Best regards,
Marvin Kitzerow
Posted by: Marvin Kitzerow
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27-Feb-2006
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Does anyone know the internet site to search the patent pending on the air gen hydrogen generaor, as i am curious to know the 2 commonly available metals used in the construction and methods of construction to build my own home brewed hydrogen gen. i know it is illegal to make them for resale with a pat pending but would be an ineresting hobby project. metals that double the capacity of lithion ion is a real break thru.
Posted by: tom snderson
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01-Mar-2006
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Hi sir,
I’m very interesting & glad on your Hydrogen Generator invention, the whole process it just like recycling. Hydrogen can be made from water, and when pass fuel cell, turns back into water on air. Is possible water from fuel cell to be recycled (Build the water electrolysis in the car) and reproduce hydrogen & clean oxygen to fuel cell/air-cond & etc product, we can save/as backup hydrogen & build another tank to keep the water. With this, they will be a lot of portable electrical appliance or Electrical generator …
Best rgds,
JSL
Posted by: Lim JS
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19-Jun-2006
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Dear Marvin,
I suggest the you go to http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/fuelcell.html and look at what a rock star did with a 1979 Cadilac.
Chuck
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