GT5 GreenCell Develops New Wireless Product to Complement HydroCell™ unit

For Immediate Release:

November 9, 2010

(Toronto) – GreenCell Technologies Inc. is pleased to announce the successful development and forthcoming release of a new product to complement its HydroCell™ unit.  Based on recent feedback from long-haul truckers, the GreenCell research team has now designed a wireless status indicator that will be manufactured and sold as a package in tandem with its popular Hydrogen Enrichment System.

The innovative device simply plugs into the cigarette lighter on the dashboard and instantly indicates the current status of the HydroCell™ and its present operating condition. The driver will instantly be aware if the HydroCell™ is in need of water and can rectify the condition which will minimize downtime. 

The HydroCell™ requires the addition of water every 40 - 50 hours of operation and will shut down and not generate Hydrogen if allowed to run dry. This device will ensure maximum fuel savings by eliminating downtime due to lack of water.  HydroCell™ has exceeded expectations and is typically doubling hydrogen output and increasing fuel efficiencies for transportation companies and independent drivers alike.

Hydrogen, as a fuel, is emission free and the only by-product of combustion is water.  It is the most abundant element in the universe and is the fuel of choice for the Space Shuttle’s main engine. 

To assure continued fuel savings, the HydroCell™ is always tested for performance, efficiency, reliability and hydrogen output on numerous vehicles, to enhance its core design and help refine the product specifications for engineers.  In addition to recent discoveries, GreenCell is also conducting extensive lab tests to establish the most efficient electrolyte mixture and the optimal Anode to Cathode distance for maximum hydrogen production.  These tests will lead to new modifications to increase hydrogen output, boost fuel efficiency overall and reduce manufacturing costs. 

The HydroCell™ is an electrolysis-based on-demand Hydrogen generator designed specifically for the transport industry. The product draws a small amount of power from the vehicles electrical system and uses it to produce Hydrogen gas from a water-based solution. The HydroCell™ directs the produced Hydrogen gas to the intake of the vehicles engine where it acts as a catalyst during the normal combustion cycle. This creates more power and fewer emissions, burning only the existing fuel in the cylinder, resulting simply in less fuel being required to operate the vehicle.

GT5 GreenCell Technologies Inc. is a Canadian company, dedicated to designing and bringing to market technology-based products for the transportation and energy industries.

For further information, contact the GreenCell Technologies Inc. head office in Canada, through email, which can be sent to: Investors@greencelltek.com

GT5 GreenCell Technologies: HYDROGEN USE AS A MOTOR FUEL

There are several ways that hydrogen can be used as a motor fuel. It can be used to directly replace gasoline or diesel fuel in specially designed internal combustion engines (ICEs), or it can be used to supplement these typical fuels in existing engines. In either of these cases, the vehicle drive system will be identical to those used on most gasoline-powered or diesel-powered vehicles. The engine will drive the vehicle’s wheels through a transmission, drive shaft, and front or rear axle.

Hydrogen can also be used as the fuel source for a “fuel cell engine,” in which case the vehicle’s drive system will be very different. A fuel cell directly creates electricity, which can be used to power an electric motor to drive the vehicle’s wheels. A fuel cell vehicle is, therefore, an electric vehicle, but one that creates its own electricity and does not need to be plugged in to recharge batteries. A small fuel cell can also be used to create electricity to directly power the auxiliary systems on a commercial truck (for example heating, air conditioning, and lighting in a sleeper berth), which are typically powered by the truck’s main engine. Using such a fuel cell auxiliary power unit (APU) would allow the driver to shut off the truck’s main diesel engine while resting, saving fuel and reducing pollution.

Regardless of whether the hydrogen will be used in a fuel cell main engine, a fuel cell APU, or an internal combustion engine, there are different ways that it can be stored on the vehicle. As described below, these different storage technologies can introduce significantly different potential hazards, including very high pressure (gaseous hydrogen storage), very low temperature (liquid hydrogen storage), or high temperature (liquid fuel reforming).

GT5 GreenCell Technologies: Currently both fuel cells and hydrogen ICEs are in the early stages of commercialization. All of the major auto companies have fielded concept, prototype, or demonstration fuel cell sedans and sport utility vehicles in the last several years, with at least fifteen different models introduced since 2000 (Barnitt and Eudy, 2005; USFCC, 2006). Most of these vehicles have been operated by the companies themselves or have been fielded to government agencies and fleet customers as part of technology development or demonstration programs. The California Fuel Cell Partnership reports that its members have placed 134 light-duty fuel cell vehicles in service in California since 2000 (CAFCP, n.d.). In addition, there are currently nine fuel cell transit buses in service in the United States and Canada, and over 20 in Europe and Asia (Chandler and Eudy, 2006).

It is expected that commercial fuel cells will be introduced into government and transit bus fleets between 2010 and 2020, with sales to commercial vehicle fleets and the public sometime between 2020 and 2030 (DOE, 2002). It is also expected that the first use of hydrogen fuel in the commercial truck sector will be to power fuel cell APUs rather than to power fuel cell or hydrogen ICE main propulsion engines. At least one company has announced plans to introduce commercial fuel cell APUs as early as 2011 (Delphi, 2005).

GT5 GreenCell Technologies: Most current prototype fuel cell vehicles carry their hydrogen fuel as a compressed gas, and it is expected that this will continue to be the case for the earliest commercial vehicles. It may be desirable to store liquid hydrogen onboard a commercial vehicle because it has a higher energy density and would increase the range between fill-ups. However, onboard liquid hydrogen storage is more costly, and it is more likely that liquid hydrogen will be stored at fueling stations to supply gaseous hydrogen to vehicles. Other storage technologies, such as metal and chemical hydrides, are much further from commercial readiness (DOE, n.d.). Several fuel cell buses have been demonstrated that “reform,” or extract hydrogen from, liquid methanol onboard (Georgetown University, 2003), and there are fuel cell APU systems under development that will derive their hydrogen from onboard reforming of diesel fuel or gasoline (Delphi, 2005). In addition, there are several commercial “hydrogen injection” systems available for retrofit on diesel engines (CHEC, n.d.). These systems produce small amounts of hydrogen by electrolysis of water carried on the vehicle, which is injected into the diesel engine along with the diesel fuel.

This document was prepared by Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. and M.J. Bradley & Associates, Inc., under contract GS-23F-0025K with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), a subdivision of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). The FMCSA project manager for this project was Mr. Quon Kwan, the Booz Allen Hamilton project manager was Mr. John Simon, and the principal author of this document was Mr. Dana Lowell of M.J. Bradley & Associates.

The authors are grateful to Mr. Paul Scott, ISE Corporation; Mr. Chris Morgan and Mr. Michael Chafee, California Highway Patrol; and Mr. Craig Michels, Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District for providing extensive peer review comments

GreenCell Technologies -The Science

A good warning: minimizing use of land and other resources, GreenCell develops the GNUL Bio Processor

GreenCell Research Pty Ltd has now taken these ideas to the next level. Utilizing the intellectual property of Ian Wright, GreenCell Research Pty Ltd constructed a number of bio-processors at Yatala, Queensland to prove the concept. Scientists from the Atmospheric Research Facility at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, provided advice on algae selection. To minimize the use of land and water resources, a proprietary bio-processor was created to grow the algae. Invoplas Pty Ltd, a plastics R & D company, built the processors.

The final bio-processor has been named the GNUL - “lung” in reverse - breathing in CO2 and breathing out O2.

Between 1978 and 1996, the US Department of Energy funded research into technologies that could have significant impacts on the consumption of fossil fuels. The focus of this research became the Aquatic Species Program, which investigated renewable fuel production (bio-diesel) from high-oil algae species, fed by the waste CO2 from coal-fired power plants. Researchers whittled down over 3,000 strains of micro-organisms into the most productive 300, and constructed 1000 sq. meter test ponds outside of Roswell, NM.

The ponds were set up as sort of algae ‘race-tracks’, where algae were circulated around shallow, oval-shaped ponds as carbon dioxide bubbled through the mixture. Results were successful and in some ways encouraging, but the program was abandoned after almost two decades, as a result of budget constraints and a preference for allocating resources to researching ethanol as a substitute for low cost fossil fuels.

About the GNUL

The World now realizes what the Earth has been trying to say for some time…. It is running out of breath and now is the time to act, before it is too late. The GreenCell GNUL bio-processor - which can be built into the infrastructure that creates our greenhouse gases - turns our worst problem into our greatest asset. The GNUL replicates lungs that breathe in CO2 and other polluting elements and breathes out sweet oxygen, cleans water for re-use and turns bio-waste into useful by-products. It’s what nature has been doing since life on earth began. A low-energy natural process with measurable results. Now we can all be part of a solution, instead of the problem. “BREATHE A LITTLE EASIER”

Greencell Technologies - HeatingSave helps the Green Houses and Cambs Fire save money

HeatingSave is a low-cost, revolutionary Energy Management System that saves between 15% and 30%+ off the energy used to heat and light your home. It’s controller, which replaces the central heating timeclock, contains a computer program that learns, and constantly refines, the heat loss profile of your house so that it uses the least amount of energy.

At 25 Manor Road, St Neots, the HeatingSave system is using HeatingSaves’ glass evacuated solar tubes to heat the hot water using the suns rays. As HeatingSave is controlling both the boiler and the solar panel, it is able to make further economies by using the free energy from the sun as much as possible. The heating is turned up or down automatically depending upon the heat loss profile of the house and the outside temperature, whilst the occupancy sensors automatically turn up and down the heating depending on whether anyone is at home. The same occupancy sensors automatically turn lights on/off, this time saving money off the electricity bill. The immersion heater is also controlled by HeatingSave, allowing the home owner the vary the hot water temperature; hot for the baths/showers in the morning and cooler in the day for washing up, hand-washing and the washing machine. All saving energy and money, but leaving you firmly in control. Linked to the HeatingSave controller is a PC where the householder can change settings, view daily costings to help with the household budget and view the energy savings graphs – so you can see that the system is actually working and saving you money. The HeatingSave system is linked to the Internet so you can control, set and view how well your energy management system is working – from anywhere in the world.
At 1 St Audrey Lane, St Ives the HeatingSave system is controlling the Dimplex flat solar panel and the Dimplex air heat source pump. There is no central heating boiler, with heat being extracted solely from the outside air temperature and the suns rays. HeatingSave applies the same type of control at 1 St Audrey Lane as at 25 Manor Road. Again the Tensor access control system links to HeatingSave so that the energy management system “knows” when the house is occupied or empty.
HeatingSave is a government approved by the Carbon Trust and the Energy Savings Trust to save money on your energy usage. It is also an approved product on the lord mayor of London’s “London Green500” scheme.
HeatingSave are also helping Cambridgeshire Fire Service to reduce their heating bills, more information can be found on the Hunts Post website
The Greencell technologies - The Green House Project will take a ‘whole house’ approach to refurbishment, starting with the building fabric and insulation, windows, heating systems, ventilation, water efficiency measures and the installation of renewable energy technology including solar thermal for hot water and solar photovoltaics (PV) for energy.

Greencell Technologies – Eco Houses Saves Energy and Money

Eco houses show the best ways to save energy and money. Two eco houses have been created in St Ives and St Neots to encourage homeowners to think green.Greencell technologies articles. Be efficient and read latest developments to avoid online scams, wrong product reviews, fraud, boiler warning and heated water solar panels.

Huntingdonshire District Council purchased the houses and refurbished them to demonstrate energy-saving measures that cut costs and carbon.

These include improved heating, lighting, insulation, appliances and sustainable drought-resistant gardens.

The Green House Project homes are open to the public for one year, after which they will be sold on the open market.

The district council teamed up with the Building Research Establishment to create the homes, which they hoped would convince the public that simple energy-saving measures could make a real difference to household bills and carbon footprints.

The St Ives house will be used as the flagship property for the project.

The 1960s detached house has been extended at the side and the rear, and demonstrates sustainable improvements including a bio-diversity roof, rainwater harvesting and triple glazing.

Meanwhile the house in St Neots, a 1970s semi-detached property, has been refurbished to show simple improvements that can be made for a relatively small financial outlay and applied to most homes.

'Ordinary homes'

Chris Jablonski, environment team leader at the council, said: "We've taken two ordinary homes that, at the time, weren't designed with energy-efficiency in mind, and we've installed a number of measures to make them more airtight and less likely to leak.

"They're now more efficient and in the process will save people money on their bills."

Before the work began the total energy bill for the St Ives property was just over £1,000 per year. That has now been reduced by over £600.

"In carbon terms that's a 75% saving, so we're very pleased with that," Mr Jablonski said.

The property has solar panels and a boiler to capture and deliver heated water. Its bio-diversity roof helps to insulate the property and, in the event of flash flooding, will absorb water and prevent the guttering from overflowing.

Not everything is as complicated, however. Many simple, low-cost measures have also been incorporated, such as draught proofing.

"That costs just a few pounds and you get a very quick pay-back," said MrJablonski.

"This project is all about inspiring people to take small steps in the right direction."

Sustainable gardens

Award-winning Cambridgeshire gardener Marney Hall designed the sustainable gardens at the front and rear of the St Ives property.

She was given a brief to create a bio-diverse space incorporating a wild meadow area, pond, woodland, hedgerows and a vegetable patch.

There are also butterfly borders and flowers that produce nectar for bees. Shelter is also provided for wildlife with bumble bee boxes and hedgehog homes hidden within the shrubbery.

Open days

MrJablonski said that an initial market valuation indicated that the two Green Houses were now worth substantially more than the council had paid for them, as a result of the improvements that had been made.

The Green Houses were officially opened on 29 October 2010 and will be open to the public for one year, from Saturday 6 November.

Entry is free and Huntingdonshire District Council plans to run a number of events throughout the year during which visitors can learn more about making their own homes more energy-efficient.

Details will be posted on The Green House Project website.

Greencell Technologies – Greenhouse Effect May Give Exoplanet Liquid Water

By John Timmer. Although our catalog of exoplanets is expanding rapidly, researchers are still looking for one that can unequivocally play host to liquid water on its surface. Over the past several years, attention has focused on the collection of planets orbiting the red dwarf Gliese 581, which is only 20 light years from Earth. The star plays host to at least five planets, some of which have been put forth as candidates for habitability based on the presence of liquid water. A new climate model, however, has now shifted attention towards GJ581d, a super-Earth that was thought to be too cold to support liquid water.
The history of the Gliese system is enough to make anyone cautious about the new announcement. Back in 2007, GJ581c was discovered orbiting right at the inner edge of the habitable zone, and was estimated to have a temperature that could support water. Further refinements, however, indicated that the presence of any greenhouse gasses would quickly boost the temperatures there to the point where the water would boil off.
Last year came the announcement of GJ581g, squarely in the heart of the habitable zone and only a few times heavier than the Earth. Other research groups with observational data on Gliese 581, however, can't seem to detect any indication of an additional planet, leaving GJ581g in scientific limbo until enough additional data comes in.
While waiting for all of that to be sorted out, a research team has gone back and taken another look at GJ581c's ugly step-sister, GJ581d. GJ581d is a heavy super-Earth orbiting at the far edge of the habitable zone, and had been thought to be too cold to support liquid water. And, unlike GJ581c, GJ581d was thought to be incapable of supporting an atmosphere that could produce enough of a greenhouse effect to warm things up.
Although it's at the far edge of Gliese 581's habitable zone, that's actually fairly close to the host star, a dim red dwarf. Close enough that the planet is thought to be tidally locked to the star, meaning its rotation and orbit are synchronized such that only one side of the planet ever faces the star (the tilt of its axis of rotation should also be minimal). This ensures that the planet's poles and far side are extremely cold, which creates a problem similar to the one that occurs on Mars: below a certain temperature, things like carbon dioxide start freezing out of the atmosphere, leading to its ultimate collapse. And with no atmosphere, there's not much chance for a greenhouse effect.
Previous attempts to understand the planet's atmosphere relied on an extremely simplified model. The new work, which has been accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters, marks a major improvement over those, as the authors have created a three-dimensional, general circulation model (GCM) that can work for a range of planets. Starting with a GCM that was developed for studying Mars, the authors pulled out all the Mars-specific features and replaced them with adjustable parameters. Thus, things like the planet's mass and orbit, as well as the radiation produced by the host star, could be adjusted to match those of the Gliese system. Things like the atmosphere's composition can be changed to try different levels of greenhouse warming, and the surface could be switched from a rocky composition to a planet-wide ocean.
Plugging in the values for GJ581d dictated by astronomical observations, the authors starting testing out atmospheres with different compositions and densities. With a rocky surface and CO₂ rich atmosphere at pressures below about 10 bar, the atmosphere was unstable, and would begin to condense out at the poles and on the planet's dark side. But things changed when the atmosphere got thicker. "For denser atmospheres," the authors state, "we found that horizontal heat transport and greenhouse warming became effective enough to remove the threat of collapse and allow surface temperatures above the melting point of water."
Something similar happened on a watery world. At 20 bar and up, the strong greenhouse effect produced by water vapor was sufficient to raise the temperatures enough that the whole planet was above the point where the atmosphere would collapse, and liquid water could persist on GJ581d's sunny side. As long as the atmosphere was dense enough, there was no danger of a global glaciation of the sort that has occurred on Earth. Below that density, local pockets of melting could occur on the day side of the planet, but the dark side would get so cold that even nitrogen would condense out of it, and any water vapor would quickly freeze back out.
What are the chances that GJ581d actually has a dense atmosphere? It's really difficult to judge. Stars like Gliese 581 have an early period in which they emit a lot of extreme UV light and ion fluxes, which could be sufficient to blast any atmosphere off GJ581d. Geological processes might later restore one, but it's difficult to guess what that atmosphere might look like. A hydrogen-/helium-rich atmosphere wouldn't generate a greenhouse effect, and would thus leave the planet cold. Water and CO₂ are certainly possibilities, but the quantity involved would have to be sufficient to bring things above the critical 10 bar value.
Fortunately, the authors note that Gliese 581 is close enough that we may be able to observe it directly with a future space-based observatory. For when that happy day arrives, they've used their model to produce some possible emissions spectra that should provide us with an indication of what's going on in the planet's atmosphere. If we ever get to the point where we can image the planet, we should be able to tell whether there's liquid water there. Until then, however, astronomers will no doubt keep looking for an exoplanet where the case for habitability is less ambiguous.
Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2011. DOI: not yet available; the paper is available through the arXiv.

Greencell Technologies A Solution for Coal-Fired Power Stations

The GNUL can be retrofitted to existing smokestacks, such as those at coal-fired power stations, at relatively low cost with minimal disruption.

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The micro-algae lock up the carbon in their cells and these can be harvested from the GNUL and the lipids, proteins and carbohydrates then converted into biofuel, ethanol, methane or other useful products, using conventional methods.

Instead of Greenhouse gases being fed into the atmosphere, these are fed into GreenCell GNUL Bio-Processors and converted into usable forms of energy and other useful products including but not limited to: Light sweet crude, pharmaceutical grade amino fatty acids, proteins and oils, the bio mass can be further processed using the cellulous fiber for fabrics; plant, stock and fish food, it makes a high-density insulation material, it can be used to feed power stations as a supplement to coal, the water involved in the process is recycled and cleaned via the process to a natural standard.

GreenCell Technologies is confident that the GNUL will prove an effective way to reduce Greenhouse gas emissions at power stations and other industrial sites.

The Gnul Process: other uses of the GNUL

The GNUL technology opens the door to multiple applications.

Algae types can handle most types of water and industrial waste.

We will find the GNUL designed into the infrastructure of tomorrow’s buildings.

GreenCell has completed preliminary trials on its methane digester design and has already had interest from commercial piggeries.

Further research with stand alone diesel motors has shown that the GNUL design is also effective in the elimination of oxides from the exhaust of stationary motors as well as lowering CO2 emissions.

GreenCell is also confident that the GNUL will be highly effective in the treatment of polluted water - utilizing algae in the same way as conventional methods but in a controlled and compact space. Use of the GNUL in aquaculture should reduce the blooms of red and blue/green algae and improve the growing conditions considerably.

GNULS are manufactured from recycled, everyday plastics and are specialty moulded using our exclusive patented process.

The same carbon neutral manufacturing process produces very low cost water tanks and methane digesters, which are themselves, recyclable.

These are used as component and ancillary parts of the whole system. However they are stand-alone items in themselves as they can be “blown” to previously unachievable dimensions.

Metering is via an EPA standard environmental gas analyzer.

GreenCell will continue to explore the potential of algae and bacteria in its role as environmental cleanser and is committed to developing the best bio-processor for each individual application.

About the GNUL

The World now realizes what the Earth has been trying to say for some time. It is running out of breath and now is the time to act, before it is too late. The GreenCell GNUL bio-processor - which can be built into the infrastructure that creates our greenhouse gases - turns our worst problem into our greatest asset. The GNUL replicates lungs that breathe in CO2 and other polluting elements and breathes out sweet oxygen, cleans water for re-use and turns bio-waste into useful by-products. It’s what nature has been doing since life on earth began. A low-energy natural process with measurable results. Now we can all be part of a solution, instead of the problem.