Texas State Technical College Waco Fuel Cell

Texas State Technical College Waco Fuel Cell 

On May 7, 2003, the Dow Chemical Company and General Motors annoimced that they are teaming to test a fuel cell system at Dow s largest manufacturing facility in Freeport, Texas. The project should be completed in two years at a cost of about 50 million. The fuel cells will produce as much as 35 MW of power. A representative for General Motors stated that its participation in the project is to reduce the cost of fuel cells and improve their durability so that we may put them in cars by the end of the decade.  

Additionally, in the near future, SECO will execute its first fuel cell project, the Texas LPG Fuel Processor Development and Fuel Cell Demonstration Program. The SECO led program, which was funded imder a competitive U.S. Department of Energy grant process, is a partnership of private and public entities including the Alternative Fuels Research and Education Division of the Railroad Commission of Texas Plug Power, Inc. UOP/HyRadix, Des Plaines, Illinois Southwest Research Institute the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Texas Department of Transportation.  

Dow Press Release. May 7, 2003 http //www.dow.eom/dow news/corporate/2003/20030507c.htm Fuel Cells. http //www.platinum.matthey.com/applications/fuelcells.html 

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