DCH Technology Sucessfully Demonstrates Hydrogen Fuel Cell.

VALENCIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 1999--DCH Technology, Inc., (OTC BB:DCHT), successfully demonstrated their PEM Hydrogen FuelCell, for the first time publicly, at the 10th Annual National Hydrogen Association Meeting in Vienna, Va., simultaneously powering a small portable television, a CD player and a fluorescent light.

It was the largest crowd ever assembled at an NHA conference, with a record 200 people in attendence.

Stated David Haberman, VP of Planning and Technology, "This marks a major technical milestone for DCH, and demonstrates our ability to develop and fabricate hydrogen fuel cell systems, that do not require fans, blowers or pumps to operate.

"DCH works closely with the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory and we were very pleased to have had this opportunity to showcase the performance of a scaleable power cell operating on either gas or hydrides. DCH will present further information on their fuel cell systems at the upcoming meetings in Lucerne, Switzerland in June and at the DRI International Fuel Cell Conference in Lake Tahoe, scheduled for the week of October 25, 1999."

DCH Technology is a technology development and manufacturing firm specializing in patented and proprietary gas sensor and safety products developed at US National laboratories, that are licensed for manufacture and sold to industrial and government customers worldwide. DCH's core technologies include the Robust Hydrogen Sensor, the Universal Gas Sensor, and the PEM Hydrogen Fuel Cell. DCH sensors are currently being used by NASA, Westinghouse, Ford, General Motors, Allied Signal, and several other multinational companies.

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For further information contact David Haberman at DCH Technology, Inc., telephone [phone] ext. 11, or Email [e-mail] DCH Technology web site http://www.dcht.com.