Ebara Ballard Completes Prototype Residential Fuel Cell with 40,000-Hour Life

Ebara Corp., an environmental system maker in Japan, announced on June 8, 2006, that it has completed the first prototypes of a third-generation fuel cell stack for residential cogeneration systems, the MK1030 V3.

This model is 40 percent lighter and 26 percent smaller than the previous generation, and has an expected lifetime of 40,000 hours. Canada's Ballard Power Systems Inc. has promoted its development, based on a 2005 contract between Ebara Corp., Ebara Ballard Corp. and Ballard Power Systems Inc.

Ebara Ballard Corp. has been jointly developing the residential cogeneration system in cooperation with Tokyo Gas Co. and Nippon Oil Corp. and plans to deliver systems containing the Mark 1030 V3 prototypes to the two companies by the end of fiscal 2006. Under the contract, Ebara Ballard is to manufacture the MK1030 V3 and package it with residential cogeneration systems on a commercial basis from 2008 onwards.

http://www.ballard.com/be_informed/about_ballard/news/2006/06/07/V3%20Release
http://www.ebara.co.jp/en/

Posted: 2006/09/23 01:26:46 PM
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