Another National Key R&D Program Hydrogen Energy Project Approved

Recently, the National Key Research and Development Program "Hydrogen Energy Technology" 3.4 project "Design and Integration of a Single Megawatt Scale Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Cogeneration System" was officially approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Tsinghua University, Ningbo Institute of Materials of Chinese Academy of Sciences, North China Electric Power University, China Electricity Academy of Sciences, Beijing Jiaotong University and so on form an industry-academia-research and technological research team, focusing on breakthroughs in scientific problems and key technologies of high-efficiency membrane electrodes, high-power power power stacks, megawatt-scale cogeneration systems and high-efficiency power electronic systems, and realizing the design and integration of a single megawatt-scale proton exchange membrane fuel cell cogeneration system. The team will realize the design and integration of a single megawatt-scale proton exchange membrane fuel cell cogeneration system, select Xinjiang Yili as a demonstration base to realize the technology landing, focus on promoting the application of hydrogen fuel cells in the field of cogeneration, and gradually realize the popularization and application of multiple scenarios of standby power supply, distributed power generation, industrial power generation, etc., so as to promote China's fuel cell cogeneration overall technology upgrading and industrial chain development.

Fuel cell cogeneration systems are widely used in households, industry, commercial buildings and small and medium-sized distributed power generation. It is expected that in the next ten years, the fuel cell cogeneration system produced by the technical achievements of the project can realize thousands of sets of promotion and application, and the sales volume can be more than 5 billion yuan. It is estimated that, compared with the power purchased from the power grid, 10 MW fuel cell cogeneration system can realize cost balance in 2.5 years, and save 510 million yuan in the whole life cycle; and compared with the traditional energy sources, 10 MW fuel cell cogeneration system can reduce CO2 emission by 10,590 kg for every 1 hour of operation, which is of great significance for the construction of environmentally friendly hydrogen energy society in a comprehensive manner.