The reporter learned from the New Energy and Material Chemistry Research Office of the Institute of Nuclear Energy and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University that the industrialized production of catalysts for key fuel cell materials has been overcome by the joint R&D team of the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Laboratory of Tsinghua University and a Wuhan science and technology company. At present, the catalyst has obtained 17 patents, the production capacity reaches 1200 grams per day, and the price is only half that of imported products.
Catalyst as a fuel cell core material, its comprehensive performance and localization are directly related to the core competitiveness of China's fuel cell technology and its industrialization prospects. However, relevant intellectual property rights have always been in the hands of a few western developed countries, and catalyst core materials have long been dependent on imports. The high cost situation restricts the independent development of China's hydrogen energy industry.
In 2015, Tsinghua University and Wuhan Himalayas Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. carried out in-depth cooperation between schools and enterprises to jointly use the catalyst preparation process of Tsinghua University to conduct mass production technology research on Pt/C catalysts. Currently, the catalyst production capacity reaches 1200 g/day. The scale can meet the needs of 40 36kW fuel cell stacks, and have large-scale industrial production conditions. This series of achievements has completely broken the long-term monopoly of a few countries on the technology, and the price is only half of similar imported products.
Catalyst series products have been applied in the fuel cell stacks of Chinese Academy of Sciences, universities and many fuel cell companies. By the end of this year, hydrogen fuel cells produced using this catalyst could reach 1,000 units.
The leader of the research team, Wang Cheng, director of the hydrogen fuel cell laboratory at Tsinghua University, said that in the next step, the team will continue to upgrade the catalyst's indicators, improve the tolerance to impurities such as sulfides and nitrides, and continuously improve the localization of fuel cells in China. Inject powerful power.
