Bramble Unveils Hydrogen Fuel Cell Integration in Industry Whitepaper
Bramble Energy has announced the release of its latest whitepaper, detailing the ground-breaking system advantages of its patented Printed Circuit board Fuel Cell (PCBFC™) technology.
Through innovative fuel cell stack design, Bramble Energy has highlighted not only a significant leap forward in cost-effectiveness for hydrogen fuel cell design but also introduces a paradigm shift in simplifying system architectures.
Bramble Energy’s core competency lies in the development of PCBFC™ stacks, which have been engineered to overcome the boundaries of conventional fuel cell technology. The result is a low-cost, scalable fuel cell solution applicable across various sectors that offers the pathway to achieving an unprecedented fuel cell stack cost of $60/kW.
In its latest whitepaper, Bramble Energy highlights how its innovative technology extends to system architecture simplification. Bramble’s fuel cell stacks streamline system builds, component choices, and integration with the ultimate goal of empowering the hydrogen economy by creating a system that is simple, efficient, and cost-effective.
One major advantage when used within an electric powertrain is the reduction or removal of the power conversion unit as current and voltage output of the stack can be customized to meet the application or readily available component specifications. The whitepaper explains that based on operating parameters, it is possible through module design to remove the DC-DC converter altogether to reduce mass, volume, cost, and system complexity.
Furthermore, the PCBFC™ allows integrators to remove the deioniser and the complex deionized cooling loop as the cooling channels are not in electrical contact with the stack, and replacing this with a simple water-glycol mix coolant. Removing the requirement for a de-ionized cooling water loop and the deionized, results in lower maintenance and capex costs as well as a further simplified, lower mass, volume, and cost system required to operate the fuel cell.
Vidal Bharath, Chief Commercial Officer, Bramble Energy said, “Bramble Energy has designed fuel cell stacks that simplify system builds, component choices, and integration. In doing so, by using our low-cost stack technology we’ve shown the pathway to the simplest, lowest-cost system architecture. Our goal is to empower the hydrogen economy, whatever the application. Therefore, as far as we’re concerned, there is little point in having the lowest cost fuel cell stack if the system to run it requires immense complexity and specifically made expensive, bulky, heavy components. A low-cost stack means little without a low-cost system to run it.”
