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This year was the fourth time, when the noted Balaton Regatta competition was organized. Dr. Zsolt Palkó, manager of The Explorer Group International Ltd., and dr. Gyula Horváth, CEO of the Balaton Shipping Co. were the main organizers of the event. Albeit it was a sailing competition at the beginning, for three years the offer of the professional regattas was flared with the car regatta. Our team participated also on the 21. August 2010. program. Among the series / mass produced vehicles our HY-GO™ 2.0 hydrogen fuelcell powered car stood as the alternatives of our future. The conformation / build-up and operation of the vehicle were introduced to the enquirers. They had the opportunity as well to make test-drives, for which there were huge demand and interest. The whole event, thanks also to the extra programs, was really an everlasting experience to all.

A large demonstration project for fuel cell electric vehicles, known as H2MOVES, has been announced in Oslo today.

The project, based in Scandinavia, will bring seventeen of the latest state‐of‐the‐art electric vehicles with fuel cells from Daimler and FIAT to Oslo including the establishment of a large scale hydrogen refuelling station in the city by H2 Logic.

The aim is to advance the commercialisation of hydrogen for transport in Scandinavia as well as connecting the region with the strong German initiatives within the area. The project has a budget of €19,5 million financed by company contributions as well as European and national funding from Norway and Denmark.

Ten Mercedes‐Benz B‐class F‐CELL cars from Daimler (Germany), two Alfa Romeo MiTo fuel cell vehicles from Centro Ricerche FIAT (Italy) and five electric city cars with fuel cell range extension from H2 Logic (Denmark) will in 2011 be provided for daily operation in Oslo and on specific tours in southern Norway and the whole Scandinavian region.
Thanks to its long range of around 400 kilometres and short refuelling times, the Mercedes‐Benz B‐Class F‐CELL combines local zero‐emission mobility with long‐distance comfort and compelling performance.

A hydrogen refuelling station from H2 Logic will be designed and built in Oslo. The objective is to provide hydrogen with a fully integrated purchase interface and in an urban environment within one of the densest hydrogen fuelling station network in Europe. The station will comply with the latest international hydrogen refuelling standard SAE J2601 that ensures a safe and fast refuelling in few minutes with the same ease of use and convenience as today. The hydrogen supply will be based on a combination of onsite production and trucked‐in hydrogen, all based on Norwegian electricity of which more than 90% is based on renewable hydro and wind power.

During the project some of the fuel cell vehicles will be employed on a European hydrogen vehicle demonstration tour, coordinated by Hydrogen Sweden and in collaboration with the European Regions’ and Municipalities’ Partnership on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells (HyRaMP). For the on‐site refuelling of hydrogen during the vehicle demonstration tours H2 Logic will also develop a mobile hydrogen refuelling concept for provision of almost 100% CO2 free hydrogen. A safety and certification study will be carried out by TÜV SÜD, (Germany) and SP Technical Research Institute of
Sweden to identify the certification gaps in Scandinavia to accelerate full commercialization of vehicles and fuelling stations.

Source: Fuel Cell Today

In our publications, emerged in the last time, we dealt with the systematic examination of platinum, which is the mostly used catalyst in fuel cells, changing the electrochemical measurement circumstances and methods. The applied methods involve nanogravimetry, a valuable tool to detect the changes, related with the change in the surface mass or adsorption / desorption processes occurring on the electrode surface. We examined the effects of changing the scan rate, the potential interval, the rate of platinization, the pH and the temperature. The electrochemical methods were the cyclic voltammetry, the chronoamperomety and chronocoulometry.

Platinum nugget
source: Wikipedia

These techniques combined with the electrochemical quartz crystal nanobalance are more effective to study the changes of the state of the electrode surface. With help of the above methods we showed that platinum can dissolve at high temperatures (above 60 °C) without the absence of any complexing agents in acidic media. At low temperatures depending on the scan rate and the positive potential limit platinum can also dissolve in another way. This kind of dissolution was also detected by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Novel representations related to the current vs. potential and surface mass change vs. potential functions have also been introduced to the better visualization of the relationship between the mass change and the charge transferred. The effect of the surface roughness, which is of great importance regarding the real characteristics of the catalyst, and the pH occurring at the membrane, caused by Nafion^®, were simulated with the platinization of the electrode and the change of the sulfuric acid concentration respectively.