AirGen has announced that the company has developed a breakthrough mechanism that can deliver on-demand hydrogen at ambient temperature.
The technique is based on the use of an aqueous solution and involves the chemistry of colloidal metals catalysis. The company has also filed various patents that mainly cover three applications that are – bulk hydrogen generation, metal reduction, and on-demand hydrogen generation.
AirGen also stated that they believe their technique can open a whole new era of hydrogen generation that has never been explored before. The technique is capable of generating 600 watt-hr for a liter of solution that is double what we get from lithium ion battery technologies. The company also claimed that they can increase the current-density once they develop a way to recycle the water output from the cell as feedstock to the reaction.
The technology also promises to be cheaper than other chemical hydride technologies, since this one makes use of metals which are commercially available at low cost. AirGen demonstrated a unit with just a quarter of the aqueous solution that produced a continuous supply of hydrogen for 15 days and is now powering a fuel cell at ambient temperature without any external power source. The company also hopes that the rate of generation can be enhanced by a factor of about five times through enhanced cell designs.
This research offers massive prospects for micro fuel cell developers and the company has already received excellent responses from major market players in this field.
Via: EV World
