Hydrogen Electricity Research Gains Support
Published Jan 24, 2008
Lynntech Inc. has been awarded a $600,000 grant to further develop fuel-cell technology.
In the search for new sources of fuel, Lynntech Corp. is concentrating its efforts on generating electricity from hydrogen.
Lynntech, building on its core area of expertise in electrochemistry, has developed innovative products in the markets of alternative energy, water treatment and life sciences.
In the area of energy, Lynntech CEO John Clanton says, “We’re converting energy from chemical compounds to produce usable electricity.”
The goal is to produce tiny fuel cells, such as might power a laptop, a wheelchair or airport support vehicles. The cells are already small enough, Clanton says. The challenge now is to make the cells less expensive and more easily manufactured.
Lynntech’s work is getting noticed.
The Texas Emerging Technology Fund granted the company $600,000 to further develop its hydrogen fuel cell research technology.
The grant award signals confidence in Lynntech’s record, which includes patents for more than 100 of its inventions, related to areas such fuel-cell test systems, proton exchange membrane fuel cells and electrochemical ozone generation. The company serves government agencies such as NASA, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Clanton says such fuel cells are technologically at a place where solar cells were 30 years ago.
“Fuel cell technology is on the edge of being commercialized” on a wide scale, he says.
Story by Paul Hughes
Photo by Todd Bennett
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