R&D 100 Awardee

Back in the middle of the Summer, I received an email from a client saying we had won an award.  But I couldn’t say much about it until now.  I’ve been working with Bill Smith and Al Meyer at Infinity Fuel Cell & Hydrogen since they were a two person company.  In fact, they were my first client when I started Callahan Engineering. The company has grown since then, and being a recipient of a 2011 R&D 100 Award recognizes a significant technology development that we have been working on with the NASA Glenn Research Center and Qinetiq North America.

A fuel cell is a device that converts flowing hydrogen (or a hydrogen rich stream) and flowing oxygen (or an oxygen rich stream like air) to produce electricity without combustion.  The specific innovation that Infinity has developed reduces the need for moving parts like pumps and blowers and prevents the need for venting the fuel cell.  This increases efficiency of the device and NASA likes efficiency when it comes to the power sources for their space missions.

About the R&D 100 Awards
From the R&D Magazine website – “The Awards, widely recognized as the “Oscars of Innovation”, identifies and celebrates the top high technology products of the year. Sophisticated testing equipment, innovative new materials, chemistry breakthroughs, biomedical products, consumer items, high-energy physics: the R&D 100 Awards spans industry, academia, and government-sponsored research.”