NEXT GENERATION FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY
Advent Fuel Cells Outperform
Competition
Any Fuel, Anywhere
Advent technology allows fuel cells to be:
Bringing down cost/kW - Advent's fuel cell technology enables
longer-lasting, lower cost, more robust and more powerful fuel
cells
Advent vs incumbent LT-PEM technology
•
Long lasting
•
Degradation is still a problem for fuel cells
Advent can more than triple lifetime (~10,000 hrs to 10% power loss vs 3,500)
Hydrogen infrastructure can be delivered quickly and efficiently with methanol or other
hydrogen sources such as biogas
.
Fuel-Flexible
Impurities in regular hydrogen such as 10 ppm CO (carbon monoxide) kill a low
temperature fuel cell - our materials withstand > 2% CO
-HT PEM Advent
Resilience -Highest T
-Low Temp
160
140
120
Lifetime/60
100
80
(hrs to 10% Voltage
loss)
Runs Humid or Dry
40
[%RH range (delta)]
20
Resilient
• The same holds true for air purity; air pollution decreases power in low temperature
fuel cells
Reducing humidity and temperature issues increases life and reduces cost, and these
units work anywhere in the world
• Low temperature cannot run hot and dry - no less than 50% Relative Humidity (RH) and
not hotter than 70 °C while our technology runs from 0% RH (Nevada) to 100% (Florida
in the summer)
At least as powerful as current tech (1,100 mW/cm2 peak power) without the extra
weight and volume of complex cooling and water management
Roll-to-roll processing mated to catalyst technology that reduces platinum 8-10 fold
Simpler system design and fuel flexibility drop TCO massively
Fuel Flexibility
[CO Tolerance/1000
(ppm)]
•
High Power
.
Cost Competitive
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Peak Power/10
(mW/cm^2)
ADVENT
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