Plant cells subsidiary

A subsidiary of lEC and Toshiba Corp. called ONSI Corp. was formed for the commercial development, production, and marketing of packaged PAEC power plants of up to 1-MW capacities. ONSI is commercially manufacturing 200-kW PAEC systems for use in a PC25 power plant. The power plants are manufactured in a highly automated faciHty, using robotic techniques to assemble the repeating electrode, bipolar separator, etc, units into the fuel cell stack. 

Dead Sea Works Process. The Dead Sea Works, a subsidiary of Israel Chemicals Ltd., aimounced plans ia 1992 to constmct a 25,000 t/yr magnesium plant at Beer-Sheva, Israel. The plant, to be based on Russian camaHite technology, is designed to use an existing potash plant as the source of camaHte. The chlorine by-product can be either Hquefted and sold, or used ia an existing bromine plant. Waste streams from the camaHite process, as well as spent electrolyte from the electrolytic cells, can be returned to the potash plant. 

Bewag AG s Treptow heating plant, located in Berlin, Germany received a 250 kW PEM fuel cell unit in April 2000 from Ballard Generation Systems, a subsidiary of Ballard Power System, of Burnaby, BC, Canada. 

Alceru [Alternative cellulose Rudolstadt] A process for making cellulosic filaments and staple fibers. The cellulose is first dissolved in an aqueous solution of N-methyl morpholine N-oxide (NMMNO) and then spun. Developed by the Thiiringische Institut fur Textil- and Kunstoff-Forschung e.V. Rudolstadt, Germany, and Zimmer (Frankfurt) from 1987. A pilot plant was built in April, 1998 and a commercial plant was planned for installation in Baoding, China in 2005. A superabsorbent version of the fiber has been developed by Stockhausen. The fiber is now made commercially by Sea Cell GmbH, a subsidiary of Zimmer. See also Lyocell. 

Around 1993, United Technologies, through its International Fuel Cells Corporation and ONSI subsidiaries, began building 200-kW phosphoric acid fuel cell plants. About 200 of these plants have been deployed, around the world, at a rate of about two dozen a year since the program started. So far, these are the only commercially available fuel cell plants. 

International Fuel Cells In mid 1997, International Fuel Cells announced that it had won 185 orders for its 200-kW PC 25 fuel cell plants, built by its ONSI subsidiary, worth 111 million, demand stimulated in part by not-all-that-generous subsidies from the US government that will help underwrite only about 75 of these orders. For the lucky ones, it will reduce the price of the plant from an average of about 600,000 to 400,000. On top of these, IFC said it had received Letters of Intent and other expressions of commercial interest for an additional 235 plants. By late 1999, ONSI fuel cell power plants had racked up 3 million hours worldwide since the first unit was installed in 1992, and the total number of plants installed around the globe stood at 200. 

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