DMFC technology is suitable for all applications, where batteries or diesel generators are used today - adding the environmental benefits as well as securing extended runtime
(vs. batteries).
- Battery substitution and/or battery charging
- Diesel generator substitution
Since the distribution and storage of methanol is simple, DMFC is feasible for mobile as well as stationary applications.
- Mobile applications (e.g. power units for transportation)
- Stationary applications (e.g. power backup systems)
The mobility of this power solution makes the DMFC technology especially suitable for rural districts or remote areas, where charging of batteries or the installation and maintenance of diesel generators are difficult.
- Rural districts (e.g. power for telecom)
- Remote areas (light houses and bouys)
IRD's DMFC Fuel Cell Systems can be supplied with a nominal power of 500W or 800W.
500W generator
Fuel Cell based CHP Systems are an efficient and environmentally friendly way to secure both heat and power in private households.
By using the fuel cells' ability to convert hydrogen and air directly to electricity and heat in an electrochemical process, only pure water vapour is the waste product.
- Clean Energy (waste product is pure water)
- No Emission
- High Efficiency
At the same time, the decentral heat and power generation, produced in the very household itself, secures that losses from traditional distribution of heat and power are nonexisting. Yet, by this creating another efficiency advantage (loss in central heat & power grids is typical 40%).
The CHP system is connected to the grid, and is hereby an element in securing the overall power supply, capable of producing to other consumers (and industries) on the grid - still by the use of Renewable Energy as the source.
- No transmission loss (due to local production of heat & power)
- An element in securing distributed, reliable power for the grid
IRD's μ-CHP System has a nominal electrical power of 1,5 kW and a nominal heat generation of 1,5 kW