The staff of New Vista Research has a great deal of experience in the field of Hydrogen Vehicles, Production, and Storage. The following are specific areas related to Hydrogen in which we have previous experience, and past projects related to those fields.
Areas of Experience
Hydrogen/Natural Gas Blend Vehicles (Spark Ignited Engines)
- Engine design
- Engine testing
- Engine efficiency measurements
- Engine emissions measurements
- Retrofit kit design
- Lean burn operation
- Stoichiometric-EGR-3 way catalysts
- Lean burn catalysts
- Selective catalytic reduction
- Hydrogen/natural gas blending
- Hydrogen/natural gas mixture storage
Hydrogen/Natural Gas Dual-Fuel Diesel Engines
- Engine design
- Engine testing
- Engine efficiency measurements
- Engine emissions measurements
- Retrofit kit design
- Additional diesel displacement with hydrogen
- Knock detection/control
- Mixing of natural gas/air/hydrogen
Hydrogen Storage/Dispensing
- Compressed storage to 10,000 psi
- Compressed/Cryogenic storage at liquid nitrogen temperature and 5000 psi
- Carbon fiber cryo-compressed storage tanks
- On Board compressed hydrogen storage tanks
- On Board compressed/cryogenic storage tanks at liquid nitrogen temperature
- On Board liquid hydrogen storage tanks
- Hydrogen station liquid hydrogen storage/dewars
- Compressed hydrogen dispensers
- Compressed-cryogenic hydrogen dispensers at liquid nitrogen temperature
- Liquid hydrogen dispensing
- Hydrogen liquefiers
Hydrogen Production
- Autothermal reforming of natural gas
- Steam reforming of natural gas
- Partial oxidation of natural gas
- Catalytic partial oxidation
- Ethanol reforming
- Bio fuel reforming
- Bio oil reforming
- Bio sugar/syrup reforming
- Bio mass reforming
- Recycled paper reforming
- Pyrolysis oil generation and reforming
- Algae oil reforming
- Fluidized bed reactors
On Board Syngas Generation
- Generate syngas on-board a vehicle for emissions and efficiency benefits
- On board catalytic partial oxidation reformer
- On board exhaust gas autothermal reformer
- On board plasma assisted partial oxidation reformer
Past Hydrogen Projects
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 Hythane |
An Affordable Low Emission High Efficiency Hythane Engine that Provides a Marketable Distributed Power System 
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Development of an Acoustic Based Gaseous Hydrogen Sensor
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On-Board Syngas Generation for Fuel Efficiency and Emissions Improvements
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A Natural Gas-Hydrogen (Hythane) Dual-Fuel Diesel Vehicle that Provides Reduced Fuel Costs and Improved Emissions
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 Cryogenic Technical Services |
Compressed-Cryogenic On-Board Hydrogen Storage and Fueling Station
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 Hyradix |
Renewable Hydrogen Generation
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Computational Modeling of the Hyradix Autothermal Reformer Reactant Injection System
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