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VALENCIA TECHNOLOGY FIRM ENLARGING FACILITY.


Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services

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 Technology Inc. in the Valencia Industrial Center is expanding its hydrogen sensor manufacturing facilities, more than doubling its current facility.

The new production and test capacity will allow DCH to respond to the increased demand for its proprietary hydrogen sensors, process monitors and leak detectors.

The use of the company's Robust Hydrogen Sensor in several different safety applications is driving this expansion. DCH has received an influx of orders following its successful installation and performance in monitoring a nuclear reactor nuclear reactor, device for producing controlled release of nuclear energy. Reactors can be used for research or for power production. A research reactor is designed to produce various beams of radiation for experimental application; the heat produced is a waste  power-plant upgrade in Russia. Additionally, there has been an overwhelming demand by automotive and truck customers for gas sensors to be installed in alternative fuel vehicles Alternative fuel vehicle

Conventional fuels such as gasoline and diesel are gradually being replaced by alternative fuels such as gaseous fuels (natural gas and propane), alcohol (methanol and ethanol), and hydrogen.
 and fueling stations.

The expansion is necessary to accommodate a growing demand for the company's products, company officials said. Industries covering a broad range are contacting DCH for service.

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 (Privacy Enhanced Mail) A standard for secure e-mail on the Internet. It supports encryption, digital signatures and digital certificates as well as both private and public key methods. Not widely used, work on PEM later evolved into S/MIME. See MIME.  Hydrogen Fuel Cell.

DCH sensors are being used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration, artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial), , Westinghouse, Ford, General Motors, Lockheed Martin For the former company, see .

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta.
, Allied Signal and several other multinational companies.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:May 7, 1999
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