The successful CUTE / ECTOS projects come to an end - what's next?
Over the last two years, 33 fuel cell powered buses have been operated in inner city areas as part of the CUTE / ECTOS projects which are supported by the EU. The buses have been in daily operation in ten European cities and in Perth, Western Australia. This highly innovative, energy efficient, low-noise and clean urban public transport system has been demonstrated successfully.
To show the new technology's potential to reduce the emission of Kyoto gases, especially CO2, and the elimination of local NOx, SO2 and particle emissions, the project has been accompanied by multi environmental studies considering the total life cycle from a systems perspective. These studies not only include the production and operation of the FC buses, they also cover the applied technologies for hydrogen production used in the different cities (e.g. onsite electrolysers/steam reformers etc.). The studies have been coordinated and conducted by IKP (University of Stuttgart) and PE Europe GmbH. The findings will be presented at the final CUTE conference early next year. First results on the hydrogen production technologies have been published and presented at various conferences, e.g. F-Cell 2004 in Stuttgart, IHEC 2005 in Istanbul.
Due to the large success of the project especially the positive feedback of passengers, a prolongation of the operation of the project is currently under negotiation with the European Commission and is expected to start soon. www.fuel-cell-bus-club.com
The successful CUTE / ECTOS projects come to an end - what's next?
Over the last two years, 33 fuel cell powered buses have been operated in inner city areas as part of the CUTE / ECTOS projects which are supported by the EU. The buses have been in daily operation in ten European cities and in Perth, Western Australia. This highly innovative, energy efficient, low-noise and clean urban public transport system has been demonstrated successfully.
To show the new technology's potential to reduce the emission of Kyoto gases, especially CO2, and the elimination of local NOx, SO2 and particle emissions, the project has been accompanied by multi environmental studies considering the total life cycle from a systems perspective. These studies not only include the production and operation of the FC buses, they also cover the applied technologies for hydrogen production used in the different cities (e.g. onsite electrolysers/steam reformers etc.). The studies have been coordinated and conducted by IKP (University of Stuttgart) and PE Europe GmbH. The findings will be presented at the final CUTE conference early next year. First results on the hydrogen production technologies have been published and presented at various conferences, e.g. F-Cell 2004 in Stuttgart, IHEC 2005 in Istanbul.
Due to the large success of the project especially the positive feedback of passengers, a prolongation of the operation of the project is currently under negotiation with the European Commission and is expected to start soon. www.fuel-cell-bus-club.com
GaBi 4 offers full EcoSpold compatibility
A feature of the newly released, updated GaBi 4.2 software is its full compatibility with EcoSpold. From now on the GaBi system will be able to import information in an EcoSpold format and will also export datasets in an EcoSpold data file.
GaBi 4 ecoinvent integrated customers receive a matching list for importing data from ecoinvent 1.2 into GaBi 4 databases in a consistent manner, despite the different nomenclatures. This leads to a full compatibility between GaBi 4 and ecoinvent. GaBi 4.2 offers an ergonomic editor to view and edit documentations according to the Eco-Spold format.