WESTWOOD, Mass., April 17, 2008 - Acumentrics Corporation announced today that it will be exhibiting its wall-mounted residential combined heat and power (CHP) units at the Hannover Fair this April in Hannover, Germany along with its partner Merloni Termosanitari (MTS Group), a leader in the European heating market.
The system - the first fully enclosed wall-mountable CHP unit - is designed to meet the power and heating needs of an average-size European home using a 1 kilowatt solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) in combination with a 24 kilowatt condensing boiler, and operates on natural gas. Acumentrics and MTS demonstrated the system to potential utility partners at the ELCO (a brand of the MTS Group) facility on October 18th. MTS will leverage its extensive experience in heating and water-heating domestic products to finalize the integration of the CHP system in a European size wall-hung boiler.
A model of the micro-CHP system will be on display at the Massachusetts booth, Hall 13, F30. The 2008 Hannover Messe runs from April 21-25. Thomas Buss, Renewables Group Manager from the MTS Group will join Acumentrics at the booth on April 24.
The Acumentrics-MTS collaboration to jointly develop SOFC based CHP appliances for the European heating market was announced in August, 2005 as a three-to-four year development, testing and commercialization process.
About Acumentrics
Acumentrics' unique, durable, fuel-flexible tubular ceramics-based fuel cell technology has exceeded performance standards in U.S. Department of Energy Solid-State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA) Phase I tests, demonstrated the ability to operate for 1300 hours on synthetic JP-8 fuel, become the first biogas-fueled SOFC system in an installation at the innovative GlashusEtt environmental information center in Stockholm, and received a 2007 New England Innovation Award from the Smaller Business Association of New England. Acumentrics also sells rugged, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) to the military and other mission-critical markets.
About MTS Group
The MTS Group is a leading international company in the heating and water heating sector. In 2006 the Group recorded sales totaling about € 1.2 billion; 6.8 million pieces were manufactured in 23 production units located in 10 countries; it has 7,300 employees and 45 subsidiaries in 25 countries. The Group offers a complete range of products, systems and services mainly under the brands Ariston, Chaffoteaux & Maury and Elco. The Group demonstrates its commitment to energy efficiency issues through significant investments in renewable energies and in the development of sophisticated energy saving products.
About the Hannover Fair
The Hannover Fair was established sixty years ago, and today ranks as the leading international showplace for industrial technologies, materials, and emerging technology. It is held in Hannover Germany. Technical innovation is one key element in the success of HANNOVER MESSE. Another is its sharp focus on the creative application of existing knowledge. At Hannover the visitor can experience whole value chains and swap information with experts from a spectrum of industries. For more information see http://www.hannovermesse.de/homepage_e.
