Toyota Motor Company (Toyota) has developed a product that packages a gas cell (FC) system right into a compact module and plans to start promoting it within the spring of 2021 or later. The brand new module can be simply utilized by corporations which might be growing and manufacturing FC merchandise for broad number of functions, together with mobility corresponding to vans, buses, trains and ships, in addition to stationary turbines (referred to hereafter as “FC product corporations”).
As varied insurance policies for using hydrogen have been adopted in recent times in every nation and area and lots of corporations have been getting into the market one after one other. Consequently, the necessity for hydrogen and FC applied sciences has been growing in a wide range of functions.
Along with its effort to popularize FCEVs, Toyota will proceed to strengthen its initiatives as an FC system provider to advertise hydrogen utilization by the popularization of FC merchandise along with varied FC product corporations with the goal of lowering CO2 emissions to curtail world warming and to contribute to the achievement of carbon neutrality.
Toyota has been taking varied initiatives towards the creation of a hydrogen society, corresponding to promoting the “Mirai” FCEV and the “SORA” FCEV bus, promoting FC techniques to FC product corporations, in addition to permitting royalty-free use of its FCEV-related patent licenses. By these experiences, the corporate has realized that many corporations concerned in FC merchandise in a wide range of industries are in search of FC techniques that may be simply tailored to their very own merchandise.
Subsequently, to handle these wants, Toyota has developed a product that packages particular person FC system-related merchandise of second era Toyota Mirai with enhanced efficiency, such because the FC stack, in addition to parts that deal with air provide, hydrogen provide, cooling, and energy management, right into a single compact module. The brand new module is obtainable in 4 fashions―a vertical kind (Kind I) and a horizontal kind (Kind II), with rated output of both 60 kW or 80 kW.
Toyota developed the FC module using applied sciences it cultivated by its improvement of FCEVs over a few years, in addition to the information and experience gathered in a wide range of utilization environments world wide and utilized within the Mirai. The next part describes the precise options of the module:
Extremely versatile product lineup and excessive installability
- The brand new module has a large voltage vary (400 to 750 V) and could be instantly related to an present electrical instrument supplied with a motor, inverter, and battery, and so on., due to a built-in, devoted FC enhance converter that simplifies the event and manufacture of FC merchandise. As well as, the system’s modularization drastically improves comfort.
- The 4 module fashions could be mixed in accordance with the applying, flexibly adapting to the output degree and quantity of set up area out there.
- Modularization eliminates the necessity to create designs for individually putting in FC system-related parts and to attach particular person parts. It additionally integrates and reduces the variety of areas the module should be related to a tool, permitting for simple set up.
Schematic instance of connecting the FC module to an exterior system
Glorious security/reliability and assist construction for peace of thoughts throughout use
- To make sure security associated to the usage of hydrogen and excessive voltage, the countermeasures cultivated in the course of the improvement of electrified autos corresponding to FCEVs and HEVs had been applied. These measures are primarily based on the essential strategy of guaranteeing that hydrogen doesn’t leak and, within the unlikely occasion that any leaks ought to happen, guaranteeing their speedy detection and stoppage.
- The module was designed to work in a broad vary of working environments, guaranteeing system operation at low or excessive temperature, at greater altitude the place the oxygen degree is decrease, and below functions involving vibration.
- When FC product corporations determine to make the most of the module, they’ve the choice to request the assist of extremely skilled engineers in figuring out optimum format and design in accordance with gas economic system, utilization period, and working price, and so on.
Glorious primary efficiency (excessive output and economical effectivity)
- Capitalizing on the traits of the compact Toyota FC system, which eradicated the humidifier by circulating the water generated throughout energy era contained in the FC stack, the brand new module has achieved a world-class, prime degree output density per unit quantity.
- The upkeep necessities of the brand new module are easy and rare, serving to to cut back the whole price, from procurement and utilization, to disposal.
This module is scheduled to be exhibited on the Gas Cell Expo (FC EXPO) to be held at Tokyo Huge Sight (Koto-ku, Tokyo) from March 3-5, 2021.
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SOURCE: Toyota
