Two of five finalists for the Hydrogen Education Foundation's 2007-08 Hydrogen Student Design Contest hail from Wayne State University.
Excerpt:
For this year's Hydrogen Student Design Contest, "Hydrogen
Applications for Airports," teams were challenged to use a budget of $3
million to design the most effective airport hydrogen system that would
address the three main challenges for airports today: noise, air
pollution and groundwater contamination.
Designs are based on the Columbia International Airport in Columbia,
SC, but applicable to other airports worldwide. Overall, twenty-three
teams registered from countries all over the world including Canada,
China, Guinea, India, Libya, Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United
States.
Elements of the top five designs include systems with waste-to-hydrogen
production facilities, hydrogen-powered airport vehicles, back-up and
portable power systems, hydrogen fueling stations, on-site production
from natural gas, fuel cell power plants, as well as public education
centers.
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