A Billerica company's clean-energy technology will help refrigerated tractor-trailers run more quietly and emit far less carbon when making fresh- and frozen-food deliveries.
Nuvera Fuel Cells won a $650,000 U.S. Department of Energy grant to adapt its Orion hydrogen fuel cell to power trailers' refrigeration units in place of small diesel engines.
Under the two-year, $1.3 million project, Nuvera will work with Thermo King, a Minneapolis maker of transport temperature control systems, to develop the prototype system for a refrigerated trailer with food-service supplier Sysco Corp. and the H-E-B grocery chain, both based in Texas.
"A fuel cell system is probably two or three times more efficient than a diesel engine, (and) also natural gas is a much cleaner fuel," said Gus Block, Nuvera's director of marketing and government affairs.
Sysco and H-E-B already have equipment in place to generate hydrogen, as both use hydrogen-powered forklifts. H-E-B uses Nuvera's PowerTap system, which uses natural gas and water to make hydrogen. The increasing adoption of fuel cells is bolstering hydrogen's place in other areas of transportation, including the commercialization of hydrogen cars slated for introduction in 2015, Block said.
"We're very excited about this project," he said, "but we put it in a much bigger context, looking to the years ahead when hydrogen becomes more and more used for transportation."
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