Research Equipment

We design lab equipment, including handheld and bench top tools, which can be used to run experiments, adjust parameters, test outputs, and accelerate R&D cycles.

ECOtality, a renewable energy company that develops and commer-cializes clean energy technologies, needed to advance the research and development of their hydrogen storage method. ECOtality
engaged GreenMountain to take their initial technology research, pursued with the assistance of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to the next stage. We developed a set of laboratory-scale test reactors to enable them to characterize the reaction kinetics of their magnesium hydride process.

In addition to designing and building the reactors, GreenMountain
used COMSOL multiphysics to model heat and mass transfer to verify test results and improve the design of future systems. ECOtality used
the reactors to characterize the reaction kinetics of their system and achieved results that had significant implications on their further technology development.

Learn more about the COMSOL model created for this project >