Hydrogen and Fuel Cell guide
of Sweden 2012
The Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Guide 2012
This is the first Swedish guide to the hydrogen and fuel cell sector. It has been edited by
the non-profit organization Hydrogen Sweden. We hope you will find it interesting and
useful!
This is how the categories in the catalouge shall be read:
Suppliers: End products, component- and system suppliers, both hydrogen and fuel
cell systems
Services: Engineering companies, consulting firms, other services
End users: Progressive and integrating users, all applications
Infrastructure: Hydrogen producers/distributors and infrastructure builders
Organizations: Public organizations, universities, NGOs, municipalities, regions, institutes
The smaller images on the cover page include images from:
Air Products and Chemicals Inc., top, left
Powertrekk, myFC, middle, left
Mercedes-Benz F-CELL, middle, right
Linde Group, bottom, left
Hyundai ix35 Hydrogen, bottom, right
The one who can store energy
will have the power
In old days the one who controlled
the fire had the power. To keep the fire
burning was crucial, in order to get
heating, to keep dangerous animals
away and for preparing the food.
In a near future the one who can
store energy will have the power and
can control probably the most important asset on earth. Energy can take
many shapes. It can never disappear,
but it can be transformed into different energy carriers. One energy carrier
that is sometimes forgotten is hydrogen. Hydrogen gets more and more
attention today and with increased
knowledge about hydrogen’s potential,
we will find new, smarter and more
complete solutions to the energy challenges that we face in the modern way
of living.
Increased knowledge can only be
gained by learning from each other.
Our purpose with this catalogue is to
show some of our most important actors within this area of competence.
Use it and find the one who can help
you with the answers to your questions
or support you in solving the upcoming energy challenges.
Björn Aronsson
Hydrogen Sweden
Göteborg, June 2012
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Why hydrogen in Sweden?
Hydrogen will become a new, efficient
and environmentally friendly energy
carrier. It can be produced from a
number of energy sources and with
different processing technologies.
Around the world major industries
and national authorities collaborate
for the market introduction of hydrogen and the fuel cell technology, aiming to replace fossil fuels with sustainable alternatives.
As a member of the European Union, Sweden has an obligation to follow
the 20-20-20 plan for climate change.
The large parts of the plans are; a 20%
cut in emissions of greenhouse gases by
2020 (compared with 1990 levels), an
average share of 20 % renewable in the
European energy mix and a 20% cut in
energy consumption. Hydrogen and
fuel cell technology can play an important role to fulfil these objectives.
Fuel cell electric vehicles – a long
term solution
The growing shortage and the rising
cost of energy resources make it necessary to look for several different technologies to secure our mobile lifestyle.
A majority of the automotive industry
has declared that it considers Fuel Cell
Electric Vehicles (FCEV) to be one of
the final answers to a sustainable and
affordable mobility for the general public. This statement was made officially
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for the first time in 2009, when Daimler, Ford, GM/Opel, Honda, Hyundai/
Kia, Renault, Nissan and Toyota signed
a letter of understanding, announcing
that they will have series of hydrogen
powered cars for sale in 2015.
The joint statement from the car
industry was a way of getting out of
the chicken and egg situation often
referred to when talking about hydrogen infrastructure. By declaring that
the cars are on the way, they encourage stakeholders to begin the build-up
of a commercial network of hydrogen
refuelling stations. Public organizations and industry have together joined
the cause in Europe, Asia and North
America.
Reduction of greenhouse
emissions
A reduced usage of the private car is
one important part to achieve the goals
of reduced energy demand and a cut
in emissions. However, Sweden’s geo­
graphy makes a large part of the inhabitants dependant of the car on a daily
basis. Good public transports, bicycle
roads and wise urban and rural planning are absolutely necessary. Though
it does not solve the transportation
need for those who lack the option to
commute by bus or bicycle to work. For
a more rapid abandonment of fossil fuels it is vital that Sweden joins in on the
Clean energy and regional
development in the north
“Lack of transmission capacity for wind power in the north
to consumers in the south is a stumbling block for Sweden’s
energy transition. Hydrogen as a new parallel infrastructure
can remove a brake pad for conversion to future sustainable
energy systems. It can also provide significant regional economic benefits. The building of a regional infrastructure for
hydrogen would greatly stimulate the development of wind
power in the North and be a regional energy boost for jobs
with low environmental impact.”
Roger Fredriksson, Apoidea.
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development like our neighbour countries Denmark and Norway.
According to an analysis made by
McKinsey in 2010, at the request of 30
companies and organizations, the cost
for hydrogen refuelling stations is in
line with the price for an infrastructure for battery electric vehicles. The
McKinsey study confirms the conclusion made by the automotive industry,
that technological breakthrough in
fuel cell and electric systems have increased their efficiency and cost-competitiveness significantly. The evaluation, based on proprietary industry
data, continues to say that ”the focus
has now shifted from demonstration to
planning commercial deployment so
that FCEVs, like all technologies, may
benefit from mass production and the
economies of scale”.
Work opportunities
When a growing number of nations,
local authorities, and companies from
the transport and energy sectors invest
in hydrogen and fuel cells technology,
the sector will be a job creator and an
area of development. The Swedish line
of business is still well positioned, but
Swedish researchers and SMEs need
support from national authorities. The
demand for trained and skilled people
will increase the coming years and this
need to be matched by universities
and schools. Possibilities for research,
for growing domestic and external
markets and for product development
placed in Sweden also wait around
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the corner. Estimations show that up
to 5000 new jobs can be created until
2020 in Sweden in this sector, if right
and fair support mechanisms and
incentives will be decided and introduced.
Energy storage
Renewable energy production from
intermittent sources can only expand if
economic energy storage technology is
available. An effective complement to
existing methods is to convert electricity into hydrogen via electrolysis. The
process causes a loss of energy, but the
method still has great advantages. For
instance, hydrogen offers larger scale
energy storage capacity and over longer
periods of time, compared to other energy storage solutions. Hydrogen storage can be a valuable complementary
solution to the expensive investments
into new grids.
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The value of the FCEV over alternative power-trains in terms of TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and emissions
(including the cost of the hydrogen
infrastructure) is positive beyond
2030. The economic gap prior to 2030
is almost completely determined by
the higher purchase price, not by the
cost of the hydrogen infrastructure.
A portfolio of power-trains for Europe:
a fact-based analysis, by McKinsey
and Company, 2010. The study is
available on:
www.zeroemissionvehicles.eu
Support to regional innovation system
The introduction of hydrogen as an
energy carrier in the society can be
described in terms of an innovation
system. This means that the introduction and commercialization of hydrogen in the energy system not only is
a question of technology, but technology, economy and humans in interaction. Hydrogen Sweden has for several
years cooperated with regions and municipalities to support the innovation
processes at a regional and local scale.
The work is usually formulated in a
cooperation project which focuses on
four keystones; increased competence,
strengthening the local network, cooperation between hydrogen and other
technologies and energy sources, and
promoting demonstration projects.
The experience from this kind of work
has resulted in an increased understanding of the important success criteria for a region or municipality that
begins to use hydrogen. The regional
platforms can be described schematically in the picture on next page.
The regional projects collect different kind of organizations. A typical
network consists of energy companies,
technical consultants, chemical and
manufacturing industries, vehicles
companies, universities, science parks
and public bodies at local and regional
levels.
Hydrogen Västra Götaland
The Region Västra Götaland in western Sweden has a platform for net7
Initiative from a regional or local government, from commercial life or Hydrogen Sweden.
Phase 1
Survey
working and competence building
in the field of hydrogen since 2003,
when the environmental secretariat
in the administration took the initiative. With the regional cooperation
as a ground, further initiatives were
taken to form the national platform
and organization Hydrogen Sweden.
The cooperation with the region has
however continued and the current
collaboration project is running until
the end of 2013.
Possibilities for hydrogen
in western Sweden
The collected knowledge and experience in the field of hydrogen and
fuel cell technology is particularly
high in western Sweden. The support from region Västra Götaland to
networking activities, competence
building and exchange of experiences has been very valuable to reach
this high level. From the about fifty
member organizations in Hydrogen
Sweden about a third are based in
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Phase 2
Mobilization
Start-up
western Sweden and the Gothenburg area.
Gothenburg is the main centre for
the Swedish automotive industry. The
headquarters of Volvo Car Corporation, as well as the Volvo Group and
many related suppliers, are situated
within the city limits. Small to medium
scale fuel cell research and development is currently being undertaken
within the Swedish motor vehicle industry, the most significant being fuel
cells used as auxiliary power supply
in heavy trucks. Sweden’s center for
petrochemical industries is situated in
Stenungsund, sixty kilometers north
of Gothenburg. Here hydrogen is produced as a byproduct in very large
quantities, and the company Ineos
Chlor Vinyls is investigating the possibilities to use this as an energy carrier
together with a fuel cell application.
Western Sweden is recognized as
a successful demo-arena with long
standing support for green technologies like wind power and biogas. The
Phase 3
Active phase
Transfer of leadership
Phase 4
Self-driven
regional network
Leadership and feed back is important to reach a successful process.
regional plattform for hydrogen seeks
to cooperate with other green technologies and energy sources, in order to
find ways for hydrogen to be a part in a
sustainable and variable energy system.
Western Sweden is on the doorstep
to introduce hydrogen at several places
and in several applications. If your
company wants to be a part of hydrogen demonstrations, wish to gain understanding, experience or contacts we
welcome you to the network.
Falkenberg
At the beautiful coast of Halland lies
the town Falkenberg, which is well
known for a great deal of wind power
establishment and other renewable
energies. The region of Halland has for
several years supported the development of hydrogen. 2011 a project was
set up to focus on Falkenberg who has
shown a special interest in supporting
the establishment of a hydrogen refuelling station and the use of fuel cell
vehicles. To facilitate the realization of
the project, Hydrogen Sweden acts as
a process leader for the network of interested organizations and companies
and has performed a study of the local
preconditions.
The network participants all have
in common that they see the positive
possibilities to be early users and adopters for new technology. The driving
forces are a mix of arguments based
on environmental, commercial and PR
reasons in the long run. The vision is a
multi fuel center just outside the town
center along the motorway E6, which
connects the Malmö-Copenhagen area
with Gothenburg and Oslo. The project welcomes more organizations who
wish to realize the ideas. Participants
can be users of fuel cell vehicles, technology provider, energy provider, owner of the station, financier or observer.
The project is financed by the municipality of Falkenberg, the Region
of Halland, Falkenberg Energy Company and the Swedish Transportation
Authorithy.
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Linda Nilsson, project manager at Hydrogen Sweden.
Common strategic approach
in the North Sea Region
In 2012 a project will start that brings
together public bodies, network organizations and institutes from seven
countries around the North Sea. The
aim is promotion and adoption of
hydrogen technology. The lead partner is Aberdeen City, one of the municipalities in the oil dependent economics on the east coast of Scotland.
The transition from fossil economy
is taken serious and Aberdeen puts
both efforts and money in making
the renewable energy sector grow.
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Hydrogen is recognized as one of the
important pieces of the puzzle, both
for allowing energy storage from intermittent sources and as a transport
fuel.
Hydrogen Sweden’s experience and
ongoing work at regional and local
scale will be used in the framework of
the North Sea project. Some of the activities in the project are to:
• Establish a Hydrogen Transport
Stakeholder Group to identify barriers hindering access to and adoption
of innovative hydrogen technologies,
and develop strategies/initiatives to
create a fully functioning North Sea
Region hydrogen corridor.
• Develop a transnational pilot study
to improve the accessibility and
connectivity of existing regional
hydrogen corridors and support the
development and deployment of a
hydrogen supply chain infrastructure in urban and rural settings.
• Develop a North Sea Region education forum to identify skills gaps
and develop training solutions
including two modular training
programmes concerned with the
design of infrastructure and hydrogen safety.
• Support the development of SME
clusters to deliver new hydrogen
turnkey infrastructure solutions.
The Swedish project partners are SP
Technical Research Institute of Sweden
and Hydrogen Sweden.
Project time: 1 June 2012 – 31 March 2015.
Contact: Linda Nilsson
linda.nilsson@vatgas.se
+46 31 334 37 71
European regions for hydrogen and electro-mobility
Four regions in Sweden are members
in HyER, the European Association
for Hydrogen and fuel cells and Electro-mobility in European Regions. It’s
the region of Skåne, Halland, Västra
Götaland and Värmland who are represented by Sven Wolf from Hydrogen
Sweden, who also holds a seat in the
HyER board.
HyER started as HyRaMP, an organization for regions and cities in
Europe who wants to be forerunners in
introducing hydrogen as an energy vec-
tor. In 2011 HyRaMP was transformed
to HyER and included in it’s mission
the development of all electric transports; both battery electric vehicles
and fuel cell electric vehicles. HyER is
representing over 30 regions and cities
in Europe. This forum has been highly
valuable to ensure cost efficient monitoring and collection of project results,
as well as exchange and collaboration
for project development. For more information about HyER please visit:
www.HyER.eu
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One result of the positive collaboration between the Scandinavian countries is the signing of a MoU (
and Hyundai-Kia in South Korea.
Scandinavia on the world map of hydrogen – S
Since 2006 Hydrogen Sweden is engaged in SHHP – Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway Partnership, a successful
collaboration with the sister organizations HyNor (Norway) and Hydrogen
Link (Denmark). The aim is to make
Scandinavia one of the first regions
where you can drive a Fuel Cell Electric
Vehicle (FCEV) and fill it with hydrogen on a commercial basis.
In order to get there we work to
make Scandinavia attractive for the automotive industry as a dynamic arena
where they can demonstrate their state
of the art technology. These vehicles
come only in limited numbers and are
highly demanded in all countries and
regions active in the development of
hydrogen. The Scandinavian efforts
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have been worthwhile, and as a result
there are currently close to 50 hydrogen powered vehicles (20 FCEVs) used
on a daily basis in Denmark and Norway, refuelling at circa ten operative
hydrogen stations. There are more stations opening in the near future and in
addition there will be mobile stations
in use the following years.
Another important piece of the
puzzle is the users. The partnership
therefore works locally with clusters of
committed organizations that want to
be early users of zero emission vehicles.
Over the last years the SHHP
has proved to be a stable ground for
large-scale demonstration projects,
like H2moves Scandinavia and Next
Move. Even though individual projects
(Memorandum of Understanding) between the SHHP partners, the Icelandic hydrogen organization
Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway Partnership
come to end, they are important steps
in building the infrastructure and will
leave lasting results.
The overall activities in the region
have put us on the world map of hydrogen, which facilitate for Swedish
organisations and authorities as they
venture into demonstration projects
and begin to found our own hydrogen
infrastructure.
The Swedish representatives in the
SHHP board are Björn Aronsson and
Sven Wolf from Hydrogen Sweden’s
secretariat.
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SHHP vision
Secure scandinavia as one among
the first regions in the world where
hydrogen cars are market introduced
HYDROGEN STATIONS
In operation
Arjeplog
Under construction
Strategic location
Stockholm
Gothenburg
Falkenberg
Malmö
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Andreas Bodén, PowerCell, demonstrates the Robust back-up system.
ROBUST – Clean and stable backup
power with fuel cell
The Robust project will demonstrate
how fuel cells function in a system for
backup power. The demonstration system is developed jointly by two Gothenburg companies; the fuel cell company PowerCell Sweden and FOAB,
experts in central safety solutions.
FOAB will implement the demonstration system at one of its large, well
known customers. Over a three-month
period it will serve as a backup if the
main power source fails. The system
will also be subjected to scheduled tests.
There are a number of different technologies to choose from among emergency power systems, especially in the
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power output around 5 kW, which is
typical for the application in the Robust
project. Compared with other technologies, the fuel cell system has both operative and environmental benefits. In addition, there are currently changes in the
legal requirements demanding longer
backup times in several countries. This
also affects the choice of technology and
points towards an increased demand for
fuel cell back up systems.
Ready for commercialization
This kind of hydrogen-based energy
system is an example of fuel cell technology ready for commercialization.
Thousands of similar systems have
already been installed on commercial
basis, mainly in North America. The
on-going commercialization of the
technology has been preceded by major demonstration projects in which
challenges concerning technology, cost,
durability and safety have been worked
out. The result is a competitive backup system with a huge global market. “PowerCell is proud to be part of Robust
More extreme weather conditions calls providing us a great opportunity to
for an increased dependency on a sta- demonstrate not only our products (fuel
ble and reliable communication infra- cells) but also our know how in masterstructure and electricity supply, which ing one of the most promising energy
paves way for a further growing market technologies around. Robust is the first
for fuel cell based back-up.
regional evidence that the hydrogen
technology is here to stay and just as
Regional support
importantly, the technology behind is
Gothenburg
engineered! Thanks to the
In addition to PowerCell and FOAB, Hydrogen Sweden works with the commu- highly entrepreneurial cooperation benication tasks in the project. The region tween the two locally based companies,
Västra Götaland is supporting the Robust PowerCell and FOAB, the technology
project with the motivation that it is con- is designed into a very promising applisistent with both the industrial policy cation that is gaining large momentum
and the environmental political visions globally. Proving its case, PowerCell is
looking forward to deploy and support
that the region has formulated.
The region of Västra Götaland has for more systems with its partners.
PowerCell is also pleased to coseveral years supported the development
of hydrogen and fuel cell technology in operate with Region Västra Götaland
the area. The region was early to see hy- and Hydrogen Sweden who show their
drogen’s potential in environmental im- strong commitment to follow the trend
provements and work opportunities and and introduce fuel cell technologies!”
Philip Chaabane,
therefore it is even more pleasant to feaProduct & Business Development,
ture this demonstration in Gothenburg,
PowerCell
the capital city of the region. ■
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Next Move – Scandinavian cooperation for th
With a clear political commitment, the tive for abandoning fossil fuel vehicles
region of Skåne has teamed up with other - since 2011 the city authorities may only
Scandinavian regions and municipalities purchase cars powered by electricity or
in becoming early users of zero emission hydrogen. Expected delivery of the fuel
vehicles, powered by fuel cells. Since 2011 cell cars is in spring 2013.
The project has also started producthey have joined forces in Next Move, an
EU-funded project that facilitates cross- ing its first results, one of them being a
border cooperation in challenging ar- report on the possibilities and obstacles
eas like purchasing, service and analysis. for a joint Scandinavian procurement.
Next Move brings early users together in Another result is an overview of the poa structured way and the organisations litical incentives promoting non-polbuild up demand, knowledge and expe- luting vehicles in the three countries. It
rience – critical steps in creating a market shows that both Norway and Denmark
are fore-runners in encouraging both
for these vehicles.
private citizens and companies to buy
Aiming at a collaboration
electrical vehicles, including hydrogen
structure
powered cars. Strong incentives like
The project will show very concrete tax reductions together with a favourand visible outcomes, such as procure- able driving and parking regulations
ment of tens of vehicles, a training cen- are used.
tre and a hydrogen road tour. The aim
is a permanent collaboration structure. Join us!
Coordination is not only desirable The project invites interested organisafrom a resource perspective, it is also tions to become associated partners. By
necessary to seriously attract the auto- following Next Move close up, taking part
motive industry and provide access to of results and benefit from the project outsmaller fleets of the latest environmen- comes your organisation will gain know­
tal technology in cars and buses.
ledge, a valuable network and experience.
An offer with no strings attached – no fiCopenhagen first out
nancial commitment is required.
Next Move runs from April 2011
After one year of operation all work
packages have been activated in the pro- until March 2014. The total budget is
ject. The procurement processes have approximately 6 million EUR and costarted and will be carried out during funded by the Interreg IVA Öresund2012. First out was the City of Copenha- Kattegat-Skagerrak programme. Lead
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gen, in line with their ambitious objec- Partner is Hydrogen Sweden. 16
he deployment of zero emission vehicles
“That public organizations from differ- “As a public organization Region Skåne
ent countries go first in line and work supports the development and use of
together for the deployment of emis- hydrogen technologies. It is a stratesion-free vehicles is both exciting and gic development issue in line with the
important. When they buy vehicles and vision of Skåne as a ‘Green valley’ for
build up their skills together, they give the future cleantech industry. It is ima great boost to the introduction of a portant that the question of hydrogen
type of vehicle that really can make a refuelling stations and hydrogen cars
difference to the environment,”
does not become a catch-22. Thus by
Jessica Vacklid, procuring Skåne’s first hydrogen cars
Project Manager Next Move through the project Next Move, Region
+46 705 088 906 jessica.vacklid@vatgas.se Skåne pushes the development of a hydrogen infrastructure, which in turn
Project partners:
can generate more vehicles. In this way
Norway: Akershus Energi, Kunnskapsbyen Lillestrøm, Hynor Lillestrøm, Skedsmo Municipality,
we, as a public organization, take the
Ruter AS, Rådet for Drammensregionen, ZERO
lead and in a responsible manner pave
Denmark: City of Copenhagen, Hydrogen Link
way
for future opportunities.”
Sweden: City of Malmö, Region Skåne, Hydrogen
Sweden
Oddvar Fiskesjö, Pro tempore head of
department of Environmental strategies
Co-financiers:
at Region Skåne
Akershus County Council, Transnova.
Contact:
Next Move
Vätgas Sverige/Hydrogen Sweden
Drottninggatan 21
411 14 Göteborg
www.scandinavianhydrogen.org/nextmove
EUROPEISKA
UNIONEN
Europeiska
regionala
utvecklingsfonden
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Mayor Fabian Stang at the opening of the Hydrogen Refuelling Station in Oslo.
H2moves Scandinavia
The focus of this project is to accelerate
the market introduction of hydrogen
powered fuel cell electric cars.
The ambition is to launch the latest “state-of-the-art” hydrogen fuel cell
vehicles and to consolidate the existing
hydrogen fuelling network in the south
of Norway by adding a new refuelling
station in Oslo.
The project will also equip the associated workshops and educate their
staff. Oslo will then have an infrastructure enabling private customers to purchase or lease their own fuel cell electric car. Hydrogen Sweden coordinates
the projects communication activities
to gain customer acceptance. The first
main activity was the opening of a hy18
drogen station and the operation of 15
FCEVs in Oslo in November 2011. Secondly, a road tour across Europe will be
held in the autumn of 2012.
By organising public events, such as
test drives, we want to reach out to people and let them know about this exciting technology – we want to offer them
a way to see this sustainable fuel in
every day operation, and understand it
is an alternative to fossil fuel.
Certification and safety
Development of a project safety plan
and a study of certification procedures
is done by TÜV SÜD (Germany) and SP
Technical Research Institute of Sweden.
Approval requirements and procedures
throughout Scandinavia are analysed
to facilitate future commercialisation of
vehicles and refuelling stations.
The study will also develop a set of
harmonised requirements and procedures, exchanging related information
and experience between the countries,
as an important step to reduce costs
and lead times for market introduction
of vehicles and fuelling stations.
The performance of cars and station
is monitored and assessed and large
amounts of operational data is accumulated. The cars are leased to private
and industrial customers to enable the
collection of real life, data, feedback
and comments from real users, allowing the understanding of customer satisfaction to be maximised.
The experience from Nordic climate conditions will yield additional
insights to ensure that the vehicles are
capable to perform in more extreme
climatic markets.
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Budget: circa 20 M€ • Funding circa 8 M€ (EC), circa 2 M€ (DK, NO) Public private partnership.
DG / Unit: FCH JU • Contract n° FCH-JU-2008-245101 Lighthouse project.
Main Partners: Ludwig-Bölkow-Systemtechnik GmbH (LBST), Daimler AG, H2 Logic A/S, Hyundai
Motor Europe GmbH, Hydrogen Sweden, Hydrogen Link Denmark Association, TÜVSÜD Industry Services GmbH, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden.
Coordinator: Dr. Ulrich Buenger, LBST,
coordinator@H2moves.eu
Duration: January 2010 – December 2012.
Website: www.scandinavianhydrogen.org
S C A N D I N A V I A
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Air Liquide
Suppliers
Services
End users
Air Liquide, world leader in gases for
industry, health and the environment,
has mastered the entire hydrogen chain
for many years now. On the strength of
this expertise, the Group is currently
and actively developing hydrogen energy.
For nearly 50 years, Air Liquide
has mastered the entire hydrogen
chain for industrial applications,
from production through to distribution at customer sites. In addition
to its significant production capacity, Air Liquide operates a distribution network that is adapted to the
needs of all its customers, the world
over.
By leveraging this experience and
this unique expertise, the Group has
taken up the challenge of developing
hydrogen as a vector of clean energy.
Today, Air Liquide occupies a unique
role in this sector, managing the production and distribution of hydrogen
as well as the production of clean power via fuel cells.
Air Liquide is present across the entire hydrogen chain
• Production
• Distribution
• High-pressure storage
• Hydrogen filling stations
• Fuel cells
Air Liquide Gas AB
Box 2911
212 09 Malmö
Contact:Emmanuel Rothan
Business Developer Hydrogen & Biogas
+46 8 444 10 18
www.airliquide.se
+46 70 310 89 00
Infrastructure
Organizations
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Blue Hydrogen
Air Liquide´s commitment to the decarbonisation of hydrogen energy production
Air Liquide takes a commitment to
produce, at least 50% of its hydrogen
energy through carbon-free processes
by 2020, by combining:
• Renewable energy sources, water
electrolysis and biogas reforming
• Carbon capture and storage technologies during the hydrogen production process based on natural gas.
Apoidea
Lack of transmission capacity for wind
power in the north to consumption in
the south is a stumbling block for Sweden’s energy transition. This fact will
prevent more than 30 billion kWh of
electricity reaching consumers and industry in the year of 2020, a considerable shortfall of renewable energy even
with EU standards.
Hydrogen – the new hydropower
from north
Hydrogen as a new parallel regional infrastructure can remove this brake pad
and contribute to a sustainable energy
system, develop regional business and
expose the national electricity grid for
competition.
The scenario is that wind power is
used for water electrolysis. The hydrogen is compressed and distributed to
Germany or Denmark, which already
has advanced plans for fuel cells in cars
and power generation.
The plants for production of hydrogen will be located close to urban centres near to the coast of northern Sweden that has port for tankers, access
to railway and is close to large wind
power parks, such as the municipality
of Nordmaling and Piteå. Since 20% to
30% of the energy becomes heat in the
electrolysis with current technology, it
can then be used in local heating distribution networks or to new activities,
such as greenhouse.
Apoidea – a small consultant business owned by a large private real estate
company; Balticgruppen in Umeå - is
going to develop the idea of a regional
infrastructure for hydrogen produced
with wind power. Our wind power projects will be used as case studies. During 2012/13 we will search for partners
and financing of a system analysis for
more in detail investigate strengths and
barriers for realising the idea.
Apoidea AB
Box 489
901 09 Umeå
Contact: Roger Fredriksson
Energy Analyst/MD
+46 90 77 70 30
Suppliers
www.apoidea.se
+46 70 30 02 61
roger.fredriksson@apoidea.se
End users
Services
Infrastructure
Organizations
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Autoliv Sverige AB
Suppliers
Services
End users
Infrastructure
Autoliv Inc. has developed a new
product technology, APG (Autoliv
Passenger-inflator Gas) for inflation of
airbags which is more environmental
friendly and cost effective than traditional inflator technologies. The APGtechnology was launched for serial
production early this year (2012), and
introduced into a passenger airbag for
a European OEM. The APG-technology will primarily be used for frontal
passenger airbags where larger cushions are required.
APG uses hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2) in combination with inert
gasses, replacing conventional pyrotechnic substances for inflation of the
bag. As a result there are no particles
nor smoke from the combustion and
no effluent gases. The remaining product after combustion is vapor which,
when cooled off, becomes just a few
drops of 100% pure water. The APG
technology allows a reduction of the
weight by up to 20% compared to inflators with comparable performance.
The mixing and activation of the gases
now takes place inside the cushion,
instead of inside the vessel as in traditional inflators, allowing thinner
vessels to be used. If only a quarter of
Autoliv’s internal needs for passenger
airbag inflators is converted to the new
APG technology, Autoliv would save
1,000 tons of steel every year. The development of this new technology is
to release a dual-stage version to offer
a gas flow adaptable to the severity of
the crash.
Autoliv Inc., the worldwide leader
in automotive safety systems, develops
and manufactures automotive safety
systems for all major automotive manufacturers in the world. Together with
its joint ventures, Autoliv has more
than 80 facilities with nearly 50,000
employees in 29 countries. In addition,
the Company has ten technical centers in nine countries around the world,
with 21 test tracks, more than any other automotive safety supplier. Sales in
2011 US $8.2 billion.
Autoliv Sverige AB
Wallentinsvägen 22
447 83 Vårgårda
Contact: Kjell Enevoldsen
Tel: +46 322 626 974
kjell.enevoldsen@autoliv.com
www.autoliv.com
www.testcenter.autoliv.com
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University of Borås
University of Borås with 15,000 students in six different schools has a
broad range of education and specific
profiles in research.
The department “Resource Recovery” with a total of about 50 researchers,
more than 1,500 m² of well-equipped
labs and great national and international networks is a unique profile in
Sweden in developing technologies
and social aspects of converting wastes
into several value-added products and
energy, including hydrogen.
The labs are equipped with several
equipments and reactors for research
on hydrogen, such as several different
ovens, pressurized TGA equipment, a
continuous entrained flow lab scale reactor. There are also more than 40 continuous bioreactors and hundreds of
batch reactors, aerobic and anaerobic
incubators, HPLC, GC, GC-MS, Ion
Chromatograph, FTIR, qPCR, Freeze
dryer, low temperature (-80°C) freezer,
normal, continuous and high-speed
centrifuges, high-temperature and
pressure pretreatment reactors in lab
and pilot scales, etc.
The research on hydrogen production is carried out by thermal processes
using gasification; and biological processes using dark fermentation. The
thermal group experimentally looks
at the production of synthesis gas and
the reaction rate of different substances with respect to temperature and
gasifying media. On a theoretical basis
(quantum mechanical calculations),
the group investigates on different materials that have a catalytic effect on
especially the water-gas shift reaction
and thereby enhance the production
of hydrogen already inside the gasifier.
The biotechnology group is investigating on simultaneous production of
hydrogen and biogas, with the goal to
develop a rapid and economically viable dark fermentation and digestion
process.
University of Borås welcome collaborations with companies and universities in this field.
University of Borås
Allegatan 1
50190 Borås
Contact: Thermal H2 production:
Prof. Tobias Richards
Tel: +46 33 435 4207 or +46 073 230 5964
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www.hb.se/ih/resourcerecovery
tobias.richards@hb.se
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Contact: Biological H2 production:
Prof. Mohammad Taherzadeh
Tel: +46 33 435 5908 or +46 70 717 1032
mohammad.taherzadeh@hb.se
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Chalmers University
of Technology
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Together with our researchers, students
and entrepreneurs, we coordinate our
work in eight Areas of Advance. We
create arenas where new ideas are born
and different people take initiatives.
The Areas of Advance brings together
education, research and innovation,
which create excellent possibilities for
cooperation and dynamics.
One of the Areas of Advance that
supports the development of a possible
hydrogen future is the Energy area. This
is the largest single Area of Advance at
Chalmers and covers all the important
elements of basic science, energy technology and systems research, as well
as connections to economy and social
sciences. Special strengths are the close
cooperation between different energy
technologies and system areas. Chalm-
ers has also developed internationally
acclaimed energy systems models.
Another area of Advance where
hydrogen and fuel cells are in focus is
Transport.
Chalmers has a long scientific tradition in sustainable vehicle technologies.
All conventional transport modes are
represented and this area is developed
together with the Energy Area of Advance and has a set of strong research
centres, for example
Swedish Hybrid Vehicle Centre
(SHC) and Swedish Centre for Renewable Fuels (f3).
Three active fields have been
identified in the Transport area; Efficient powertrains, Vehicle concept
development, and System aspects of
vehicles.
Chalmers University of Technology
Physical Resource Theory, Department of
Energy and Environment,
412 96 Göteborg
www.chalmers.se/transport
www.chalmers.se/energy
Contact: Maria Grahn, PhD
+46 31 772 31 04
+46 706 22 09 34
maria.grahn@chalmers.se
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Energigas Sverige
Swedish Gas Association
Biogas, natural gas, hydrogen, vehicle
gas and LPG are gases used in the energy sector. These gases are clean and
efficient. They reduce climate emissions, improve air quality and are good
alternatives to oil-based products for
industry, as well as in the transport sector. The gases are a natural part of the
sustainable society and contribute to
efficient energy utilization, more jobs
and a cleaner environment.
Altogether, these five gases today
represent 4 percent of the Swedish energy supply. By increasing their use,
the Swedish Gas Association believes
that a number of political objectives in
the field of reducing climate and environmental emissions could be reached.
Therefore, the association and its members have set up an ambitious target
to increase from 4 to 7 percent of the
Swedish energy supply by the year 2020.
The Swedish Gas Association is a
member-funded, industry association
dedicated to promoting a greater use of
these gases for energy. The association
Energigas Sverige/Swedish Gas
Association
Box 491 34
100 29 Stockholm
www.energigas.se
works towards a safe, environmentally
responsible and efficient utilization of
gas and acts as a voice for all gases where
safety, technical matters, marketing and
advocacy are key elements. The association also promotes R&D within the
sector through its shares in the Swedish Gas Centre, SGC, where some bigger gas companies are the other share
holders. The assignment of SGC is to
co-ordinate Swedish industrial interest
in R&D concerning gas fuel technology.
Prioritized areas
• Increase knowledge and acceptance
concerning the potential of the gases in the energy sector.
• Increase awareness of the growth conditions of the gases and the need of political guidelines, goals and strategies.
• Develop guidelines, industry standards and authorization in the whole
gas field.
• Offer professional courses towards
a safe, environmentally friendly
and efficient use of gases.
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Contact: Anders Mathiasson
+46 8 692 18 41
+46 702 963 265
anders.mathiasson@energigas.se
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Gatubolaget
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Gatubolaget is specialised on the
coordination of Gothenburg City’s
vehicles and transportation. The organization is assigned to deliver environmentally friendly vehicles and
transport solutions to the municipal
companies and administrations in
the City of Gothenburg. The aim is
to create a clean and safe traffic condition in the city. This is achieved,
for instance, by delivering low emission vehicles consistent with high
safety requirements, car and bicycle
pools and training officials in ecodriving.
Other functions of Gatubolaget are
vehicle insurances and the training of
city employees in safety aware driving, according to the “Gothenburg City
Safety policy”.
Since Gatubolaget has a history
of being early adaptors of alternative
vehicles and fuels, it is consistent that
the organization takes interest in the
development of hydrogen and fuel cell
vehicles.
Göteborgs Gatu AB
Box 1086
405 23 Göteborg
Contact: Pelle Grönberg
+46 31 368 49 06
pelle.gronberg@gatubolaget.goteborg.se
www.gatubolaget.goteborg.se
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H2Skåne
H2Skåne is a network with the aim to
increase the growth of environmental technology in the region of Skåne.
Supported by the European Regional
Development Fund we work in a project that focuses on the cooperation
between regional actors dealing with
hydrogen.
We believe that hydrogen will play
a major role in the transition to a more
sustainable energy system. Through
networking and common projects we
promote the development of hydrogen
as an energy carrier. Activities in this
area also lead to an increased profitability for companies as well as to a
stronger research and innovation climate in Skåne.
The political will of the region and
a growing commitment for renewable
H2 Skåne
www.h2skane.se
energy makes Skåne suitable for early investments in hydrogen technology. The
geographic position also allows an inspiring cooperation with other countries.
What can hydrogen do for the
environment?
Hydrogen can be produced from all
kinds of energy sources, even from
renewables such as solar, wind and
water.
Fuel cells are a technology that in
a very efficient way can transform hydrogen’s chemical energy into electricity and heat. The emission of a fuel cell
together with hydrogen is pure water.
The environmental benefits are significant, provided that the step before the
final use does not imply any major environmental impact.
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Contact: Anna Alexandersson
+46 709 71 99 56
anna@h2skane.se
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Honda
Honda’s first fuel cell vehicle was demonstrated as early as 1999. Since then
development has taken great steps forward. Today’s fuel cell stacks are smaller, lighter, more compact and more
powerful than before. The FCX Clarity
has since 2008 been leased out to customers in California and Japan.
– Honda’s own developed FCX
Clarity is ready for production, but
is dependent on a functioning infrastructure for refuelling hydrogen.
Once in place, many people will enjoy uncompromising mobility with
zero emissions, as this is clearly described in our environmental vision
“Blue Skies for our children”, says Maria Johansson PR Manager for Honda
Sweden.
Honda, along with several other
manufacturers, has made a joint statement (9 Sept 2009) that we can pro-
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Honda Nordic AB
Box 505 83
202 15 Malmö
www.honda.se
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duce and introduce fuel cell vehicles to
the market from 2015.
– It is important that everyone tries
to reduce dependence on fossil fuels
and develop technical solutions using
alternative energy sources, continues
Maria Johansson.
2011 Honda pledged to reduce CO2
emissions from its products by 30% by
2020. To achieve the vision of a sustainable future, research is conducted in a
variety of techniques, such as natural
gas-, hybrid-, fuel cell-, battery/electricand plug-in hybrid -vehicles, but also
with solar cells.
Fuel cell vehicles powered by hydrogen does not emit CO2 or other
harmful emissions and still meet high
standards of performance and convenience. They can be the key to a bright
and sustainable future for the automotive industry in the community.
Contact: Maria Johansson
+46 40 380 709
+46 73 699 07 09
maria.johansson@honda-eu.com
Innovatum
Innovatum is one of northern Europe’s
strongest development centres. We
focus on energy technology and environmental engineering, production
technology and the creative industry.
We consist of a science centre, a project
arena and an incubator.
Innovatum wants to inspire new
thinking and our point of departure is
that the very best way to generate learning and new knowledge is when people
cooperate. We are therefore concentrating on arenas with resources which
stimulate and utilize precisely this.
The operations and projects are
financed by public funds as well as
by active participants in the industry
and the world of academia. Innovatum is operated according to the Triple Helix model. This means a strong
collaboration between university, industry and government in order to
drive activities.
Since the beginning we have runned
over 100 projects and helped over 60
start up companies. Each year we run
35 projects at a total current project
balance of 200 MSEK. And each year
over 70 000 people visit the interactive
exhibitions at our science centre.
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Innovatum
Contact: Lillemor Lindberg
Box 902
+46 520 289 323
461 29 Trollhättan
lillemor.lindberg@innovatum.se
www.innovatum.se
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Intertek Semko AB
Intertek is a leading provider of testing
and advisory services for batteries and
fuel cells. With more than 50 years of
track record in evaluating power sources, Intertek has developed a deep understanding of operating conditions across
a wide range of end-use applications.
From electrical vehicles to cellular
phones and medical devices, Intertek has
the expertise to ensure that your product
meets the performance reliability and
safety criteria for batteries and fuel cells.
We go beyond testing, inspecting and
certifying products; we help customers
improve performance, gain efficiencies
in manufacturing and logistics, overcome market constraints, and reduce risk.
micro fuel cell systems up to larger stationary fuel cell systems, as well as electrolyzer systems. Intertek’s diversity of
test environments allows for testing
against national and international fuel
cell standards as well as customized test
programs. We hold extensive global accreditations, recognitions, and agreements for virtually every market in the
world and these can take the form of
test reports, or full certifications and
product marks.
Intertek’s laboratory and procedures
have been assessed to ISO 17025 – General Requirements for Competence of
Testing and Calibration Laboratories.
Energy Storage
Intertek’s fuel cell services cover all
chemistries and sizes – from smaller
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Intertek Semko AB
Torshamnsgatan 43, P O Box 1103
164 22 Kista
www.intertek.se
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Contact: Eva Fontes
Managing Director Energy Storage
+46 8 750 04 30
eva.fontes@intertek.com
KTH - Royal Institute
of Technology
KTH has a strong environmental
awareness, which is reflected in the
orientation towards the environment
and energy in KTH’s education and
research. KTH accounts for one-third
of Sweden’s technical research and
engineering education capacity at university level with over 17,000 students,
more than 1,500 PhD students and
nearly 3,000 full time equivalent employees. To meet societal and industrial
needs for the future, KTH has consolidated research, innovation and education into prioritized focus areas and
formed cross-disciplinary platforms.
Research on hydrogen and fuel cells is
one of the important activities in the
Energy platform.
The Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology has a long
history on fuel cell related research.
With a focus on energy conversion
processes, fuel cells are studied from a
system perspective at Energy Processes.
The chemical conversion of energy and
matter is the focus of Chemical Technology with activities in fuel reforming to hydrogen-rich gas for fuel cell
applications. The research at Applied
Electrochemistry addresses electrolytic
processes and electrochemical devices,
such as batteries and fuel cells. Fuel
cells is a major field with activities both
on high temperature MCFC and SOFC,
and low temperature PEMFC. Recent
and on-going projects concern cell
design, activity and stability of components in the system, including catalysts,
supports and electrolytes, mass transport of species in the system, and the
influence of fuel contaminants.
KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
Department of Chemical Engineering
and Technology Applied Electrochemistry
Teknikringen 42
100 44 Stockholm
www.kth.se
Contact: Prof . Göran Lindbergh
+ 46 8 790 81 43
goeran.lindbergh@ket.kth.se
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myFC
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No matter where you go in the world,
there is one common challenge - energy.
It was with this in mind researchers at
the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology started to develop a new energy solution a few years ago, and finally founded
myFC in 2005. Our mission is to provide
high performance, environmentally
friendly and affordable portable power
and energy solutions. Having secured
numerous patents around proprietary
shape-flexible fuel cell systems with record high power density, myFC is today
a world leader in micro fuel cells.
myFC technology and products
serve a range of markets and applica-
tions to improve and simplify the lives
of people throughout the world within
three market segments; outdoor, safety
and daily use. Our product PowerTrekk is the world’s first Water Charger
consumer product for mobile phones,
cameras, GPS devices. PowerTrekk
is both a fuel cell and a portable battery pack. The fuel cell enables instant
charging from a depleted battery state
without ever needing a wall charge. Users simply insert a fuel pack and add
water.
myFC AB
Saltmätargatan 8A
113 59 STOCKHOLM
www.myfc.se
Contact: Björn Westerholm
CEO
+46 70 656 20 07
bjorn.westerholm@myfc.se
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Permascand AB
Permascand AB celebrating 40 years of
experience this year! Permascand head
office and main site is in Ljungaverk in
central Sweden.
Permascand is one of the leading
producers of electrodes and electrochemical equipment, serving electrochemical processes such as Chlorate,
Chlor-Alkali, Alkaline Water Electrolysis, Water treatment or Electrowinning worldwide.
On account of the stringent requirements in this field for material strength, weight and corrosion
resistance, Permascand has developed high level of know-how in the
forming and welding, design and
construction in different demanding
materials.
Historically the manufacturing
know-how in titanium equipment have
led Permascand into the process, off-
Permascand AB
P O Box 42, Folkets Husvägen 50
840 10 Ljungaverk
www.permascand.com
shore and marine industries in Scandinavia, Europe and worldwide.
Our range of services includes
• Design, modelling, construction
and manufacturing of electrodes,
cells and systems
• Production of electrodes, mainly
for the process industry
• Renovation and surface treatment
of electrodes
• Design, modelling and construction
of lightweight, strong, corrosion resistant products for various markets
As a total supplier Permascand offers
turnkey projects.
Permascand is a brand of AkzoNobel, the largest global paint and coating
company and a major producer of specialty chemicals with headquarters in
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Contact: Erik Zimmerman
+46 691 355 00
erik.zimmerman@akzonobel.com
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PowerCell
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PowerCell Sweden AB is a Gothenburg
based company founded in 2009 with
heritage from extensive research activities within the Volvo Group. Our
mission is to offer our customers environmentally friendly power systems
developed with unique fuel cell and
reformer technology that is suitable
for both existing and future fuel infrastructures.
PowerCell is convinced that future
energy supply needs to become cleaner
and more efficient and that those targets will be met by a combination of
various breakthrough technologies.
One of those is the fuel cell technology
that will play a major role in many applications due to its:
• ultra low to zero emission foot print
• high efficiency and durability
• attractive life cycle cost
Throughout the years, PowerCell has
gained significant know how and experience in fuel cell systems which
currently is being translated into near
term product demonstration projects
running on pure hydrogen and soon
also on road diesel fuel. Thus, PowerCell is about to show that the technology not only works, but it is here to stay!
The applications that benefit from
the features are many; backup power
systems, vehicle propulsion systems,
auxiliary power supply onboard trucks,
local heat and power generation at
greenhouses and residents.
PowerCell is stand by to help you
find out how you can make your energy cleaner and more efficient.
Please contact Andreas Bodén or
Philip Chaabane for further information.
PowerCell Sweden AB
Ruskvädersgatan 12
418 34 Göteborg
www. powercell.se
Contact: +46 31 720 36 20
Andreas Bodén
andreas.boden@powercell.se
Philip Chaabane
philip.chaabane@powercell.se
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Processkontroll GT AB
GT means Green Technology. Processkontroll GT AB designs, manufactures and erects various types of gas
refueling stations for natural gas and
biogas (CNG, CBG, methane) and
Hydrogen in Northern Europe. We are
mainly focused on methane but the
same compressor technology is suitable for hydrogen refueling also.
We have considerable experience
of mother, daughter and bus stations,
transport systems and service. A mother
station is the type that is connected to a
pipeline, and can be erected anywhere
there is a permanently installed gas pipeline that can be extended to the station.
We have developed a transport system
that supplies our daughter stations with
gas. The system is based on the standardised swap loader system. Compressed gas
is held in steel or carbon fibre composite
cylinders. Carbon fibre composite gives
best volume per transport unit.
Processkontroll GT is part of family
owned entrepreneur company founded
Processkontroll GT AB
Tankstationsbyggarna
Box 2088
444 02 Stora Höga
www.pkgt.se
www.tankstationsbyggarna.se
1970 within Swedish process industry.
Since 1997 we have built more than
100 gas refueling stations for methane.
Processkontroll GT is the leading
constructor of CNG-gas refuelling
stations, and offers a national service
network for all their refuelling stations.
Regular maintenance means that the
quality is retained and any malfunctions are prevented.
Processkontroll GT contributes to:
• Design, manufacturing and erection of gas refuelling stations.
• Hands-on development of reliable
technology within refuelling systems for gas driven vehicles.
• Design, manufacturing and supply
of high volume gas transportation
units. Based for existing and widely
used swap load system.
• Preventive maintenance.
• Repairs.
• 24/7 on call service.
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Contact: Tarmo Pohjonen
Managing Director
+46 303 79 81 00
tarmo.pohjonen@processkontroll.com
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Region Västra Götaland
The climate issue is a huge challenge, but
also a business opportunity for small and
large entrepreneurs. Region Västra Götaland and the region’s 49 municipalities have
defined the challenges and determined
what agreements are needed to make
things happen. The aim of the regional
climate strategy, adopted in 2009, is to reduce climate effects impact while creating
growth and jobs. The main objective is to
be independent of fossil energy by 2030.
Think local, lead global
Region Västra Götaland promotes development and investments in the renewable
energy area, in the form of and hydrogen
and fuel cells, biogas, solar energy and
wind power. The region also supports
the market for energy-efficient building
including passive houses as well as smart
grid solutions in Västra Götaland.
demia and organisations – together
decide on more concrete measures and
agreements and take responsibility for
their implementation in Västra Götaland.
It is through collaboration and regional policymaking these environmental measures can make a larger
impact, when creating markets for new
products or trying to change attitudes
in people.
Region Västra Götaland is the democratically elected organisation charged
with promoting growth and sustainable
development and offering the region’s
inhabitants good healthcare. Region
Västra Götaland supports and drives
development for a good life in Västra
Götaland. With just over 50,000 employees Region Västra Götaland is one
of Sweden’s biggest employers.
A multitude of networks and
partnerships in Västra Götaland
Public and private stakeholders – from
municipalities, trade and industry, acaSuppliers
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Region Västra Götaland
The Environmental Secretariat
462 80 Vänersborg
www.vgregion.se
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Contact: Tomas Österlund
+46 10 441 40 29
thomas.osterlund@vgregion.se
Sweco
SWECO delivers qualified consulting
services in all areas regarding development of society. We work with the
whole chain in projects, from feasibility studies, strategic planning, to
engineering design and project management. SWECO has about 7400 employees and is among the largest players in Europe in terms of technical
consulting. Sustainability is key for
SWECO and sets the foundation for
the way we work. We analyze complete
energy systems and incorporate the
“Sustainable City” concept wherever it
is possible.
Participating in development
of hydrogen as the new energy
alternative
Energy is needed in all parts of today’s
society and transport has a significant
share of the demand. It is heavily dominated by fossil fuels and is growing
continuously; hence it is of utmost importance to find renewable alternatives.
Hydrogen is an important link beSweco AB
Gjörwellsgatan 22
Box 34044
100 26 Stockholm
www.sweco.se
tween intermittent power and its storage possibilities. That’s why SWECO is
a member of Vätgas Sverige (Hydrogen
Sweden). We believe that hydrogen will
become a vital component in future society and we want to explore its fullest
potential, for stationary and backup
applications as well as for transportation use.
SWECO has great experience in
energy supply and transport issues
and our expertise covers most aspects.
Some examples are:
• Renewable energy
• Scenario analyses
• Strategic optimization
• Sustainability evaluations
• Infrastructure planning
• Energy storage and distribution
systems
Additionally we are experienced in
international collaborations involving
EU commissions, stake holders, private companies and governmental authorities.
Suppliers
Contact: Farzad Mohseni
Energy Systems Analyst
+46 8 6955828
farzad.mohseni@sweco.se
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Triventus
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Triventus is a renewable energy group
focusing on wind power and biogas.
We have specialized on developing sustainable business ventures, from idea
to recycling, we are offering complete
solutions that creates added value for
our customers.
Accumulated in the group we have
a width and competence that makes
Triventus unique on the market.
• Triventus supplies high quality renewable energy solutions.
• We have a large number of specialists in biogas, and wind power who
work together in teams.
• Our products and services are customised to meet our customers’
needs and comply with the requirements of current legislation and licences.
• The services we provide are characterized by a professional approach
and an understanding of safety and
the environment.
Triventus AB
Box 33
311 21 Falkenberg
www.triventus.com
Contact: Martina Braglin
+46 10 45 40 732
+46 706 52 11 60
martina.braglin@triventus.com
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Volvo Technology
Volvo Technology is the centre for in- ics. Simulation, modelling and systems
novation, research and development in engineering are important tools.
Volvo Technology is located at
the Volvo Group.
The mission of our company is to Lundby­strand and Chalmers Science
develop a lead in existing and future Park in Göteborg and at Volvo’s estabtechnology areas of high importance to lishments in Lyon, France and GreensVolvo. This means that we focus on both boro, USA.
Being part of the Volvo Technology
hard and soft projects within a system
approach framework. Our expertise is team is challenging and gives opporalso used to drive common group initia- tunities for personal development in
tives in certain key expert functions such many different directions. More than
as intellectual property, standards, intel- in most other companies the main
asset in Volvo Technology is the indiligence and Volvo Production System.
Our customers include all Volvo viduals and our ambition is that our
Group companies and Volvo Cars but different tasks shall result in a good
working environment. Therefore we
also some selected suppliers.
We participate successfully in national are constantly looking for individuals
and international research programmes who can create sustainable concepts,
involving universities, research institutes “sell” these to colleagues and customers
and other companies. The range of areas and realise them in a way that generwhere we participate is very broad and in- ates benefits for the Volvo Group.
cludes e.g. telematics, logistics, ergonomics, electronics, combustion and mechan-
Volvo Technology
CTP avd. 6104
405 08 Göteborg
www.volvogroup.com
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Contact: Azra Selimovic
+46 31 322 67 83
azra.selimovic@volvo.com
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Vätgas Sverige
Hydrogen Sweden
Hydrogen Sweden is a Public Private
Partnership with members and financiers from industry, NGO’s and local,
regional and national government. The
PPP was founded in January 2007 and
promotes a balanced and pragmatic
approach to hydrogen. Hydrogen Sweden is non-profit, includes circa 50
members, financiers and partners at
the moment.
Hydrogen Sweden’s mission is to
facilitate the introduction of hydrogen as an energy carrier in Sweden.
To do so we initiate demonstration
projects, disseminate information
and strengthen the collaboration
between actors from various fields
with a joint interest in hydrogen. We
are also open to exploring synergies
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Vätgas Sverige Hydrogen Sweden
Drottninggatan 21
411 14 Göteborg
www.vatgas.se
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with other alternative fuels and technologies.
Hydrogen Sweden contributes to:
• Increased knowledge and awareness about the potential of hydrogen as an energy carrier
• More practical applications and
demonstrations of hydrogen and
fuel cell technologies
• Involving more actors with interests in the hydrogen area
• Hydrogen being included to a larger
extent in political strategies, regulations and legal framework as well as
in research programmes
• Economical growth and more
working opportunities in the trade
and industry related to hydrogen
Contact: Björn Aronsson
Managing Director
+46 31 334 37 73
+46 70349 09 58
bjorn.aronsson@vatgas.se
Hydrogen Sweden Board Members 2012
Magnus Blinge
Senior Lecturer, Co-director
Area of Advance, Transport
Chalmers University of Technology
Andreas Bodén
Manager Fuel Cell Development
PowerCell
Oddvar Fiskesjö
Pro tempore head of department of
Environmental strategies Region Skåne
Jeanette Johansson
CEO
Consat Sustainable Energy Systems AB
Göran Lindbergh
Professor
KTH, Department of Chemical Engineering
and Technology Applied Electrochemistry
Lillemor Lindberg
Unit head/Operation Manager Energy and
Environmental Technologies, Innovatum
Else-Marie Malmeken
CEO Malmeken – Sustainable Business
Development
Claes Tullin
Director
Biomass Combustion, Aerosol Particles
Energy and Environment
SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden
Leif Zachrisson
Global Account Manager
Air Liquide Gas AB
Erik Zimmerman
Business Development Manager
Speciality Products, Permascand AB
“Hydrogen is very interesting as an energy
carrier for the future. It is a way of storing excess
renewable energy from for instance wind and
solar power.”
Oddvar Fiskesjö,
Pro tempore head of department of Environmental strategies at Region Skåne
and newly elected member of Hydrogen Sweden’s board, May 2012.
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Enabling fuel cell solutions
based on existing fuels
PowerCell PowerPac
Designed to generate clean, silent and reliable electrical power anywhere at anytime,
replacing existing combustion engine generators for applications such as leisure, industrial
and automotive.
We will soon introduce our first diesel fueled
3 kW PowerPac.
PowerCell Fuel Cells
PEM fuel cell stacks leverages the best of two
worlds being hydrogen or reformate indifferent.
Our fuel cells are being integrated by customers in stationary and automotive systems
with great success. We also support our customers optmimizing their system by providing engineering services.
Contact us to get product information and
how we can make your energy needs cleaner
and more efficient.
www.powercell.se