Overview

Safe Hydrogen LLC is developing rechargeable hydrogen storage and transport processes utilizing magnesium hydride slurries. Under pressure hydrogen is absorbed by the slurry. After transport, the hydrogen is released by the application of heat. Cost efficiency does not require large markets.

The concept of slurry-based hydrogen storage technology was developed in a $3 million research project completed at Thermo Electron Corporation. (now known as ThermoFisher Corporation). The driving objective of that project was to create a pumpable and safe hydrogen fuel which would not require a new distribution infrastructure. The concept was demonstrated using lithium hydride slurry to generate hydrogen on board a vehicle and fueling its converted internal combustion engine. Safe Hydrogen was founded by the management of the project and has acquired all rights and intellectual property associated with hydrogen oriented slurry technology.

The energy density of rechargeable slurry is equivalent to liquid hydrogen. Rechargeable slurry uses only heat to release the hydrogen. The slurry can then be recharged with hydrogen. Rechargeable slurry provides hundreds of charge/discharge cycles enabling he capital cost of the slurry to be amortized over the cycles.

Slurry is very safe to transport and can be stored at normal temperature and pressure. The slurries were designed to be distributed using the existing fossil fuel infrastructure of tanks, trucks and water transport. Depleted slurries yield environmentally safe byproducts and can be completely recycled and reused. Slurries match the storage efficiencies of liquid hydrogen without the inherent complexity of storing and transporting cryogenically cooled and potentially explosive gases.

Safe Hydrogen slurries enable hydrogen storage for future use in the same location or for distant and broad based distribution to all market applications such as large-scale power generation, back-up power, as well as for fueling hydrogen-powered vehicles and ships.

Safe Hydrogen is operating as a R&D project management company and executing all tasks with a number of engineering partners. Company funding sources include Federal and State grants, as well as management and other private investors. Safe Hydrogen is based near Boston, MA drawing on the leading technology and world-class academic and scientific resources available in this area.

Safe Hydrogen believes that hydrogen is a clean, dependable and broad-based energy carrier that can utilize all available and acceptable energy resources.

The company is focused on creating technologies that enable the safe and effective use of hydrogen without requiring the establishment of a specialized, cost-prohibitive new distribution infrastructure.

We believe that efficient use of all energy includes effective incentives and policies that encourage conservation.

Safe Hydrogen slurry technologies enable cost-effective and safe use of hydrogen in commercial, consumer and military applications:

• Excess power storage for wind and solar generation facilities.
• On board hydrogen storage for fueling vehicles and ships.
• Storage and generation at local fueling stations to supply fuel cell powered vehicles utilizing high-pressure gas, liquid, or solid metal hydride hydrogen fuel tanks.
• Long distance hydrogen transportation - a simpler, safer lower cost alternative to cryogenic hydrogen transportation.
• Storage and on demand hydrogen generation for portable power, off grid power and back-up power applications.

Mr. Ken Brown, CEO, has 30 years of experience in the energy and high tech industries including Data General, BASF and American Power Conversion Corporation. Mr. Brown has a BS in engineering from Yale and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
kbrown@safehydrogen.com

Mr. Andrew W. McClaine, CTO, was the Program Manager responsible for the original development of the chemical hydride slurry technology at Thermo Power Corporation. He received his MS in engineering from Stanford University and gained broad career experience in thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid flow. He is widely published and comes with 35 years of large scale R&D project experience.
awmcclaine@safehydrogen.com

Mr. Sigmar H. Tullmann, Business Development Advisor, previously founder and CEO of DataStoreMedia, Inc - a spin-off from BASF Corporation.
shtullmann@safehydrogen.com

Mr. Edward A. Shapiro of Edward A. Shapiro, P.C., Mr. James P. Dunn, previously CEO NASA Technology Transfer Center, as well as several magnesium and chemical experts from the faculties of MIT and Boston University, serve as industry and technology advisors. Mr. Thomas V. Hennessey, Jr., Financial Consultant, serves as a Director of the Company.