Characteristics
- Technology
- centrifugal
- Type
- air
- Power source
- electrically-powered
- Portability
- stationary, mobile
- Lubrication
- oil-free
- Application domain
- industrial, for hydrogen application
- Applications
- for hydrogen fuel cell
- Other characteristics
- air-cooled, compact, high-efficiency, rugged, axial, high-performance, variable-speed, small, electric, light, multi-stage, modular, inverter, hermetically-sealed
- Pressure
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Max.: 10 bar (145.04 psi)
Min.: 1 bar (14.5 psi)
- Flow
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Max.: 350 l/s (92.46 us gal/s)
Min.: 8 l/s (2.11 us gal/s)
- Power
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Max.: 100 kW (135.96 hp)
Min.: 8 kW (10.88 hp)
Description
Hydrogen is one of the pillars of the ecological transition, because it is both a storage solution that can remedy the intermittence of certain renewable energies and a fuel capable of powering emission-free vehicles.
The mobilisation of public and private players in France and abroad heralds a decade resolutely focused on hydrogen-based solutions for cleaner mobility, industry and energy storage.
The fuel cell
This clean mobility is made possible by the development of fuel cells, which convert hydrogen fuel into electricity, which in turn will power electric engines. The fuel cell is thus at the heart of the vehicle, the hydrogen “engine”.
The compressor
Hydrogen is converted into electricity in a fuel cell. The air supply compressor is an essential and critical component in all fuel cells. As its name suggests, it ensures that enough air at the right pressure is supplied to the stack, the pile of electrodes where the reaction between hydrogen and oxygen in the air takes place.
