NEW HYDROGEN PATENT FOR APOLLO

POMPANO BEACH, Florida (February 14, 2006).  A new patent was just issued to Apollo Energy Systems, Inc. of Pompano Beach, Florida for an AMMONIA CRACKER FOR PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN (U.S. Patent Number 6,936,363 B2).

Hydrogen is needed for fuel cells which produce electricity for home power plants and electric propulsion systems for vehicles. But hydrogen cannot be found as a separate element.  It is always combined with other compounds such as water (H2O) or ammonia (NH3).  The Trick is to separate the hydrogen from one of these compounds so that it can be used as a fuel for fuel cells which produce electric power, or for internal combustion engines (ICE).

Separating hydrogen from water is very expensive and requires a lot of electricity, but separating hydrogen from ammonia can be a simple and inexpensive process when ammonia is fed into an Ammonia Cracker.

Development work on the Ammonia Cracker started in 1998 at the Technical University of Graz in Austria.  A team of scientists and engineers, headed up by Dr. Karl Kordesch, one of the world's foremost fuel cell scientists, worked for five years to develop a simple and inexpensive Ammonia Cracker.  Now it is possible to produce all the hydrogen needed for fuel cell power plants to be used in homes, farms, commercial and industrial establishments.  Hydrogen can also be available for pollution free vehicles which operate on fuel cells or internal combustion engines.

Ammonia is the second largest chemical produced in the world with 140,000,000 tons manufactured annually.  It is easily transported by truck, rail, ship, barge and pipeline.  It is used by framers all over the world as a fertilizer, and it is used extensively for refrigeration.  In the United States, 25% of our ammonia is made from coal and 75% from natural gas.  But it can also be made from renewal sources such as solar power and wind power.