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Stem Education ‘Horizon’ | FUEL CELL: Hydrostik PRO
$ 120.00 excl. GST
► This Stem Education HYDROSTIK PRO fuel cell cartridge is a secure & versatile hydrogen storage solution to fuel your hydrogen powered devices.
• Rather than compressing hydrogen gas, HYDROSTIK PRO reliably binds hydrogen with a metal alloy to form a solid metal hydride.
• The hydrogen is safely stored in a non-compressed, solid metallic form and is compatible with a range of Horizon products (sold separately) powering fuel cells up to 30W.
* To recharge the HYDROSTIK PRO : the HYDROFILL PRO hydrogen source is required.
Features:
• Designed with an aluminum alloy enclosure and a AB2 alloy for hydrogen absorption.
• After activation, the AB2 alloy is capable of absorbing hydrogen, expanding and releasing heat until saturation.
• The internal pressure of the fully charged cartridge remains at 30Bar (435PSI) at ambient temperatures of 20˚C to 25˚C and the weight is around 0.9 gram higher.
• Once the cartridge valve is opened and pressure is reduced, hydrogen will be continuously released from the alloy that will absorb heat.
• If the heat absorption rate decreases, so will the hydrogen release rate.
• The aluminum alloy cartridge enclosure has excellent heat conductivity properties that can facilitate heat conduction of the alloy during gas absorption and release processes.
• Gas absorption efficiency of the alloy can be significantly impacted by oxidization due to humidity; therefore dry hydrogen gas with a purity of no less than 99.99% is required for charging use.
Experiment:
– Powers most of the experiments in Horizon’s advanced educational range.
[View HYDROSTIK PRO pdf info: HNLWH22-10L-5-datasheet ]
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Stem Education 'Horizon' | FUEL CELL: Hydrostik PRO
• This Stem Education HYDROSTIK PRO fuel cell cartridge is designed with an aluminum alloy enclosure and a AB2 alloy for hydrogen absorption.
- After activation, the AB2 alloy is capable of absorbing hydrogen, expanding and releasing heat until saturation.
- The internal pressure of the fully charged cartridge remains at 30Bar (435PSI) at ambient temperatures of 20˚C to 25˚C and the weight is around 0.9 gram higher.
- Once the cartridge valve is opened and pressure is reduced, hydrogen will be continuously released from the alloy that will absorb heat.
- If the heat absorption rate decreases, so will the hydrogen release rate.
- The aluminum alloy cartridge enclosure has excellent heat conductivity properties that can facilitate heat conduction of the alloy during gas absorption and release processes.
- Gas absorption efficiency of the alloy can be significantly impacted by oxidization due to humidity; therefore dry hydrogen gas with a purity of no less than 99.99% is required for charging use.
- Portable Hydrogen:
Get excited about hydrogen as a clean, efficient technology that can run cars, buses, planes, power plants and even space rockets.
Capture the future imagination and possibilities with this kind of renewable technology. - Leading innovators are making truly impressive machines, but it’s worth remembering the smaller innovations, the ones that are here, right now, making a tangible difference to the way people live.
- Portable energy is the perfect example aiming to create longer-lasting power sources that produce a fraction of the greenhouse gas emissions from traditional lithium batteries.
Hydrogen cartridges can be stored for much longer without a noticeable drop in performance.
They are safer as the hydrogen can be stored in solid state inside the casing, and they can be refilled quickly and easily. - A single HYDROSTIK PRO is capable of delivering ten hours of power at continuous consumption of 1W, and can be recharged up to 100 times.
In conjunction with a hydrogen refueling station, HYDROSTIK PRO are therefore the equivalent of 1000x disposable AA batteries.
(Used HYDROSTIK PRO can either be exchanged for full cartridges or refilled using 'Horizon’s HYDROFILL PRO: an on-demand refueling station that produces hydrogen from distilled water'.) - When hydrogen becomes a viable alternative for all those little, day-to-day activities – suddenly those cars, buses planes and rockets will seem like the natural next step rather than a far distant future.
Camping trips with consumer electronics?
- A full extra charge for smartphones and tablets for business travelers used to long trips without access to mains electricity?
- Fueling stations to refill hydrogen cartridges that require only distilled water to create hydrogen through electrolysis?
- Well, all this technology already exists, and every passing year brings new developments – longer periods between recharging, smaller cells that are easier to store, more powerful Hydropaks that can run productivity devices. - Horizon already works in partnership with Stem Education related portable power leading brands:
- 'Boc Industrial Gases' [The Hymera DC standalone unit automatically monitors/recharges batteries used for security cameras, electrified fences, backup power for IT and communication systems.]
- 'Air Liquide' on a range of portable power products distributed as an internal promotion tool.
- 'Brunton Hydrogen Reactor' which builds on Horizon’s Minipak providing a portable recharging system for electrical devices such as smartphones, tablets, GPS devices, cameras, MP3 players and flashlights.
[View HYDROSTIK PRO pdf info: HNLWH22-10L-5-datasheet ]
WHY FUEL CELLS and HYDROGEN ?
► Fuel cells can be thought of as alternative energy devices.
They convert chemical energy into electrical energy.
Hydrogen fuel cells do this very cleanly, with no toxic emissions, and with a better efficiency.
Fuel cells do not generate energy out of thin air.
They use hydrogen.
Hydrogen is an outstanding carrier of energy.
► Hydrogen is non-toxic, renewable, easily obtained, and packed with energy.
When it combusts with oxygen, it turns into water.
This water can again be split into hydrogen and oxygen via electrolysis.
The generated hydrogen can be combusted once again, thus undergoing a limitless cycle without toxic emissions.
With a fuel cell, you can convert hydrogen into electric current without combustion.
Fossil fuels are converted into usable energy through combustion.
► The energy released during combustion is inherently difficult to capture and inefficient.
It also produces carbon dioxide, which cannot easily be converted back into a usable fuel.
A fossil fuel combustion engine at a power plant is only about 30 to 40% efficient.
This means it coverts only 30 to 40% of the energy in the fossil fuels to usable energy (electricity).
Engines in a car are even less efficient, and reach the level of 15 to 20% of efficiency.
Where does the rest of the energy go? It escapes as heat, vibration, and noise.
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