Kawasaki Awarded Order for High-Pressure Hydrogen Regulators for a New Fuel Cell City Bus; High-pressure hydrogen regulator for a new fuel cell city bus
February 21, 2024 at 09:51 am EST
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Tokyo--Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. announced today that it has been adopted for high-pressure hydrogen regulators to be used in a new fuel cell city bus by one of the world's largest commercial vehicle manufacturers in Germany.
The product plays the important role of reducing the pressure of hydrogen gas, which is supplied from a hydrogen tank installed on the fuel cell bus at a high pressure of approximately 350 atmospheres, until the pressure reaches a level where the gas can be used in the fuel cell stack.1 This regulator contributes to space savings and increased range by improving fuel efficiency. This is achieved by enabling efficient reduction of hydrogen gas pressure using high-precision gas control technology, and by stabilizing hydrogen gas pressure during power generation. At the same time, it offers superior reliability, having cleared durability tests that suggest a life of 20 years.
This high-pressure hydrogen regulator is the fruit of Kawasaki's technological capabilities and experience built up over the years on hydrogen products. Kawasaki successfully manufactured and supplied this product to a client for a mass production fuel cell vehicle in 2018. Based on the client's high evaluation of Kawasaki's contributions to the fuel cell vehicle, reliability and overall high-level technological capabilities at the time, Kawasaki has earned the client's trust and confidence, which led to the recent adoption for use in the new fuel cell city bus.
Kawasaki is honored to contribute to the client and is pleased to see that our hydrogen product continues to expand. In Kawasaki's Group Vision 2030, which describes the company's future vision for 2030, 'Energy and Environmental Solutions' has been specified as one of the areas it will focus its efforts on. The company will continue to contribute to global decarbonization efforts through the promotion and use of hydrogen as a clean energy source.
Fuel cell stack: a component that generates electricity by using the chemical reaction of hydrogen and oxygen.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. specializes in manufacturing and marketing of transportation and industrial machines equipments. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- sale of motorcycles and engines (29.8%);
- sale of aerospace equipments (19.9%): aircrafts, helicopters, missiles, electronic equipments, monorails, etc.;
- sale of gas turbines (19.8%): turbines for naval, marines and industrial applications, generators, propulsion systems, etc. The group also develops naval construction activity (construction of ships, submarines, bulk carriers, oil tankers, etc.);
- sale of precision machines (16.8%): primarily hydraulic machines. The group is also developing a manufacturing of industrial machinery activity (tunnel boring machines, curling machines, grinding machines, etc.);
- sale of railway equipments (8.4%): train cars, electric and diesel locomotives, monorails, etc.;
- other (5.3%).
Kawasaki Awarded Order for High-Pressure Hydrogen Regulators for a New Fuel Cell City Bus; High-pressure hydrogen regulator for a new fuel cell city bus