LH2 news from Japan
Japanese trading house Itochu has partnered with Air Liquide, a French industrial gas supplier, to develop a liquid hydrogen plant in central Japan which, when complete, will be one of …
WHEC 2020 Cancelled!
As inidicated on the conference website WHEC 2020 has been cancelled because of the impact, the Corona virus is having on those kind of events. The next WHEC will be …
5th Project Meeting postponed
Because of the current CoVidD19 health issues the Coordination Committee decided to postpone the 5th general meeting originally scheduled for 31st of March to 2nd of April in Athens, Greece. …
Bill Gates not on LH2
According to several press releases (e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/09/bill-gates-orders-500m-hydrogen-powered-superyacht ) Bill Gates should have ordered the world’s first liquid hydrogen-powered superyacht, worth an estimated half billion Euro. This turned out to be a hoax. Anyway, …
3rd Project Newsletter Released
PRESLHY has entered the third (and potentially last) year of the project. The newsletter provides information on the recent meetings, ICHS contributions and some essentials regarding recent experimental findings. Enjoy …
World’s first liquefied hydrogen carrier launched in Japan
The Suiso Frontier is a key part of the HySTRA demonstration project, which will see hydrogen shipped 9,000 km from southeast Australia to the Japanese city of Kobe. For further …
First experimental data openly published by PRESLHY
With a certain delay the FCH 2 JU supported pre-normative research project has successfully accomplished the first test series dedicated to LH2 release and ignition phenomena. More details are given …
Drone mission time record thanks to LH2
In April South Korea based MetaVista raised the world record for the flight time of a electric friven drone by a factor of almost 6, to more than 12 hours! …
NASA wants to fly “all-electric” with LH2 and superconductivity
NASA is providing three student research teams from different universities with around 6 million dollars over three years to develop alternative propulsion systems for aircrafts. As published in May 2019 …
E3.1 Cold DISCHA test series startet
On 17th of April first tests with the LN2 cooled DISCHA were performed. Strong freezing of ambient humidity on the release nozzle has been observed. However, this “snow” is easily …