Fuel cell systems can be used at all places where a silent and clean energy source is needed, mobile or stationary. Because of the generation of electricity it is the most easy to equip an already existing electrical application with fuel cells. Although the combination of a fuel cell and electrical motor is in principal applicable at every place where an internal combustion engine is used now.
Below some possibility’s and finished projects.
For a company in the heavy vehicle sector H2Consultancy developed a prototype 30 kW fuel cell system with Nedstack stacks. Together with the customer this system has been build and integrated in a truck. It is now daily used for over one year.
Together with HAN university a Fiat Doblo has been converted to hydrogen fuel cell driven. This demo vehicle was supplied with a 10 kW fuel cell range extender. After the RDW approval this vehicle was provided with a hydrogen licence. The community of Arnhem did use the Fiat Doblo in regular service. www.han.nl
This city bus equipped with a 30 kW fuel cell has been tested and improved by H2Consultancy to get it reliable for demonstration purposes.
For B-Style & Business a 20 kW fuel cell system has been made for a 21 person regional bus. This bus won the Innovation award at Busworld 2011
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For a Still forklift truck an 8 kW fuel cell system has been made. This system replaced the original battery. It was a challenge to make the system heavy enough as it also serves as counter weight.
For a foreign customer a 5 kW fuel cell system has been made as a telecom backup system. The challenge in this project was to run the system also with an outside temperature of 40 degrees.
In the agricultural sector it is possible to supply the energy with a fuel cell in all kinds of used vehicles. This opens the opportunity for a new generation hydrogen electric driven agricultural vehicles. This is especially interesting in combination with local energy generation and hydrogen production.
Industrial vehicles of all sorts and sizes can be supplied with hydrogen fuel cells. This gives the advantage of a long operation time without emissions, so the vehicles can also be used inside.
This airport tractor is equipped with a 8 kW fuel cell and has been tested on Schiphol airport.
Fuel cell systems can be used both as clean and silent APU, as well as main propulsion on smaller ships.
