When can hydrogen fuel cells be used for cell phone charging?
According to foreign media reports, the British Intelligent Energy company developed into the phone's hydrogen fuel cell. This product development will likely bring substantial profits.
The hydrogen fuel cell announced this time belongs to Intelligent Energy personal consumer electronics research project. Last October, the company developed a battery powered by hydrogen and oxygen reaction, the role of almost zero pollution process. In a recent demonstration, the company successfully assembled the battery pack into the iPhone and Macbook. It is understood that the battery can even battery life up to a week. This is another major breakthrough for Intelligent Energy on fuel cells following UPP, a hydrogen fuel cell phone rechargeable battery.
However, this is not the first appearance of a hydrogen fuel cell. Lin Boqiang, director of China Energy Economy Research Center of Xiamen University, told reporters that the hydrogen fuel cell used on mobile phones is not much different from the battery working principle used in the car engine. "It's just different in size."
Safe and pollution-free
Perhaps domestic consumers still have little knowledge of the company, but the Loughborough, UK listed company has been engaged in fuel energy research and development since the 1980s, now has 2,000 patents (including patents pending), The company was founded by Loughborough University, the first project landed at Loughborough University, the University to provide academic support.
In addition to personal consumer electronics, Intelligent Energy's fuel-power systems are used on fixed power and powertrain systems.
As a semi-academic company, Intelligent Energy does not mass-produce its products, but instead works with other brands to provide them with energy solutions. Last year, Intelligent Energy partnered with Suzuki to develop a fourth-generation fuel cell power system that can be fitted to motorcycles and cars.
Intelligent Energy's core technology is its R & D fuel cell power generation system, which consists of fuel cell stacks, air, fuel and control systems. The battery stack uses PEM fuel cells. PEM fuel cell with lightweight and easy to carry and so on, can be used in computers and other portable electronic devices. In use, hydrogen is injected into the device and chemically reacts with the fuel cell to produce electricity. The power released can last up to a week for the phone.
In the iPhone shown by Intelligent Energy, small holes were also designed to remove water vapor after hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen supply is adjusted through the headphone jack charge. In order to facilitate business expansion, Intelligent Energy is currently developing a disposable hydrogen gadget - it can be inserted into the bottom of the phone, which contains hydrogen powder enough to support the release of power a week, through each fill can be repeated use.
Hydrogen can be consumed quickly and easily compared to traditional energy sources such as natural gas and LPG, which makes it easier to control its safety features in an open environment and, if released, will not pose a safety issue if properly controlled.
Due to the display with Apple devices, although executives said the battery pack is for the mass consumer electronics brands, more people still tend to bind it with the Apple brand. It is also pointed out that Apple is conducting research and development of fuel cell patents, but its official has never officially accepted this view.
Waiting for partners
Japan's Nikkei BP Clean Technology Institute has released survey data, after 2015, the hydrogen energy infrastructure market began to slow growth; and after 2020 the market will show an accelerating growth to 2025, the hydrogen energy infrastructure, the domestic market The scale will exceed the commercial.
It is understood that China produces 33 billion batteries annually, resulting in about 10 billion used batteries. There is currently no corresponding solution for mobile recycling countries. If such a zero-pollution fuel cell can be mass-produced and promoted, it will not only effectively protect the environment, Is also a huge market. Henri Winand, CEO of Intelligent Energy, believes that the market value of a product can reach £ 300 billion a year: "For us, this was never done before, and we are now able to make the fuel cell very thin, without Any shape change to the existing rechargeable battery can be placed in an existing cellphone. "The technology really took a big step forward because new technology is about making people feel really easy to use."
However, this product is expensive. Intelligent Energy has been investing heavily in technology research and development. Last October, the company developed embedded fuel energy. According to the 2015 semi-annual report, from September last year to March this year, it has spent 10.3 million pounds (equivalent to more than 100 million yuan) in research and development.
A large number of cost inputs caused the product price is not very grounded. Last year, Intelligent Energy announced that the price of its fuel-cell rechargeable batteries reached 149 pounds (about 1,497 yuan), and it costs £ 5.95 (about 59.7 yuan) each time it enters hydrogen.
This time, for the new battery system, the company decided to reduce product costs by mass production. Following ARM's technical property rights to sell hydrogen fuel cell systems, the low-margin manufacturing process is handed over to manufacturers.
Intelligent Energy threw hydrangeas on its partners and Mark Lawson-Statham, its CFO, said: "Our plan is that it's been commercialized for years, but its time to real is when our partners intend it do."
Some analysts expect this will bring huge profits to Intelligent Energy. 2015 revenue is expected to reach 100 million pounds, this figure is still 13.6 million pounds in 2014.
Zeus Capital analyst McColm said the company is likely to accept its partners to invest or even buy.
On business prospects, Lin Boqiang told reporters: "Now it is not possible to achieve mass production, this must rely on technology to reduce costs. Including charging voltage and other parameters, the current technology should not meet the production standards."
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