# Presentation: 185176

## Fuel Cells

**International Fuel Cells**

**195 Governor's Highway**

**South Windsor, Connecticut  06074 USA**

**(860) 727-2200**

**www.ifc.com**

**PRE-0407**

**Fuel Cells**
**Cradle to Grave**

**June 2001**

- 1488f10

## IFC CORPORATE STRUCTURE

- PPT01517
- R010606

**Transportation**

**Space & Defense**

**Research**

**Center**

**Residential**

**Commercial Power Systems**

- WCN15802

- CA0815

- United Technologies Corporation

- Pratt & Whitney
- Power Systems

- Pratt & Whitney CanadaMicroTurbine

## HEALTH AND SAFETY

- United Technologies Corporation will not be satisfied until its workplace is safe from hazards, its employees are injury free, its products and services are safe, and its commitment and record in protecting the natural environment are unmatched.
**Objectives**
- Eliminate all employee injuries by making the workplace free from hazards and unsafe actions.
- Drive pollutants in manufacturing processes to the lowest achievable levels.
- Conserve natural resources in the design, manufacture, use and disposal of products and delivery of services.
- Establish safety and environmental protection standards that both comply with local laws and go beyond, when necessary, to achieve the goals of this policy.
- Hold operating managers accountable for safety and environmental performance and for providing leadership and required resources.
- Require all employees to comply with these standards.
**Support**
- Quantify safety and environmental goals, measure progress regularly and report progress to the UTC Board of Directors, employees and communities; and respond to suggestions and needs of others.
- Develop technologies and methods to assure safe workplaces worldwide and to protect the environment, and promulgate these outside UTC.
- Make safety and environmental considerations priorities in new product development and investment decisions, and in our dealings with contractors and suppliers.
- Work with governments and industry associations to advance laws and regulations supporting these goals.

- PPT-01951
- 011806

## UTC GOAL TO SUBSTITUTE MATERIALS OF CONCERN - 2001

- Phase out use of materials of concern by 2007 (new products)and 2012 (legacy products)
- Materials of concern - heavy metals & solvents
- Cadmium, lead, mercury, and hexavalent chromium
- Chlorinated solvents
- Basic requirement is to inventory uses of materials, identify substitutes, and work to overcome technical obstacles to substitution** **

- PPT-01952
- 011806

## IFC FUEL CELL MARKETS

- PPT-01169

- R051401

**Number of units delivered**

**225**

- PC25TM operating fleet

**- Fleet hours**

**over 4 million hours total**

**- Longest Continuous**

**Operation**

**9,506 hours**

**200 KW NATURAL GAS POWER PLANT**

## FACILITY OVERVIEW

- FC41547PPT

- R001805

**WCN16163D**

**BIDWELL ROAD**

**CA-0342**

**PC25 ASSEMBLY**

**CA-0344**

**CSA MANUFACTURING**

**WCN15903**

**WCN15927**

**CN-45648**

**CSA TEST STAND**

**FPS BUILDING**

**GOVERNOR'S HIGHWAY**

**280,000 square feet**

**PEM development and test**

**PC25 manufacturing**

**Acquiring 60,000 sq. ft. adjacent**

**to Bidwell Rd. facility**

## WORLDWIDE INSTALLATIONS

- PPT-01167

- R0124704

** ****225 Units delivered**
** ****Over 4 million operating hours**
** ****Automatic control**
** ****Remote monitoring**

## COMMERCIAL POWER SYSTEMS

- R011306

- PC25 market focus

- Condé Naste, NYC, NY

- Omaha, Nebraska

- Deer Island, Boston, MA

- RELIABLE POWER

- WASTE WATER TREATMENT

- GREEN POWER/COGENERATION

- DISTRIBUTED GENERATION

-  Central Park, NYC, NY

- 1487-17

- CA0517

- © 2000 Andrew Gordon

- 1488-1

- WCN-15801

## PC25C DESCRIPTION

- PC25 Power Plant preparing to ship

- PPT-01953
- 011806

## PC25C MAJOR SYSTEMS 

- PPT-01954
- 011806

## PC25 - MAJOR SUBASSEMBLIES

- PPT-01955
- 011806

- Total Weight 40,000 lbs.

## PC25 - WEIGHT OF MATERIALS

- PPT-01800
- 010106

- Total Weight 40,000 lbs.

## PC25C

- Disassembly sequence - present

- PPT-01956
- 011806

## CURRENT DISPOSITIONS

- PPT-01957
- 011806

## PC25C DISPOSITION BY WEIGHT PERCENT

**Hazardous****0.03%**
**Waste**

**Landfill**

**5%**

**Recycle **

**95%**

- PPT-01958
- 011806

## MATERIALS GENERATED DURING 

- R012006

- MATERIALS GENERATED DURING
- OPERATION OF PC25

- lbs/year

## Q-PLUS SUPPPLIER ASSESSMENTS

_**Safety:**_
**Machines**
**Operator Actions**

_**Inputs:**_
**Materials**
**Energy**

**Product Output**

_**Non- product output:**_
**Waste**
**Injuries**

**Pollutant releases**

***Use EH&S assessment to help identify opportunities for process improvement***

- PPT-01961
- 011806