Metal Hydride Hydrogen Storage Supplier, H Bank Technology Inc., becomes 2nd Taiwanese Company to Join the Fuel Cell Markets Platform
Fuel Cell Markets is delighted to announce that H Bank Technology Inc. has joined Fuel Cell Markets. H Bank Technology is a leading Taiwanese developer of metal hydride and hydrogen purification technology.
“H Bank’s metal hydrides offer good cycling properties” commented Duncan Bott, Managing director of Fuel Cell Markets “. Their technology is well suited to backup remote power applications in regions where load shedding is a common occurrence and long autonomy is a required condition.”
Fuel Cell Markets will be working with H Bank to increase global awareness of their hydrogen metal hydride technology for remote power and renewable energy storage applications.
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“About H Bank Technology Inc.
Our products are considered as an excellent hydrogen storage solution for renewable energy projects. With the widespread recognition, H Bank’s hydrogen storage systems are de facto a symbol of the best hydrogen storage solutions for 1-20KW FC devices. Our products have been successfully tested in dozens of laboratories in Europe, North America and Asia with different experimental fuel cells as well as with standard FC products from Plug Power, Ballard, Voller, FC R&D, et al. Due to his experienced R&D team, H Bank is able to design the right compositions for the storage alloys in very short period of time and offer to his customers high quality tailor made storage products, which can fully meet their demands.
Our Patented Material
Using special vacuum technology, rare-earth and transition metals can be melted into alloys, which are able to absorb hydrogen from the gas phase. These alloys, at room temperature and under certain hydrogen pressure, are absorbing extremely large quantities of hydrogen by forming solid metal hydrides. The chemical reaction of hydride formation is accompanied with release of heat into environment. The hydrogen absorption process can be reversed if the hydrogen pressure is lowered below some certain value. In this case, desorption of hydrogen gas is accompanied with heat absorption from environment.
The hydrogen storage alloys, based on rare-earth metals, Ti, Zr, Fe, et. al, are extensively studied. However, only rare-earth based AB5-type and transition metal based AB2-type alloys have reached the stage of mass production and commercialization. At the same time, as a reversible gas storage material, only AB5-type alloys can operate at moderate temperatures (from -20°C up to +60°C), while the AB2-type ones require additional heating.
Developed by H Bank in 2000, our patented alloy compositions are able to absorb hydrogen as high as 1.65wt.%, whereas the maximum values for commercial AB5-type alloy is below 1.5wt.% so far. Our alloy outperforms any existing AB5-type alloy.
In 2004, we devoted in putting the solid state hydrogen storage idea into the market. We have developed a big variety of hydrogen storage tanks and containers with amount of stored hydrogen from 10 up to 100,000 litres. All our rights on these products are protected with corresponding patents. We will devote every effort to replace dangerous high-pressure hydrogen cylinders with safe metal-hydride based storages. ”
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