Battery Market

Leveraging a 15 billion dollar market for battery power across the consumer, military, and industrial sectors, HPI is developing a hydrogen battery - a safe and convenient portable source of active and stand-by power.

One of the most promising approaches for providing high energy density and longer runtime to mobile and remote power sources are hydrogen powered fuel cells. In these fuel cells, hydrogen is oxidized to produce water and electric power. They have the potential to deliver more energy per volume and/or weight compared to lithium-ion batteries and to run for longer durations. With full commercialization just around the corner, fuel cells are transitioning from stand-alone charger-type products to a fully integrated design that replaces the existing battery within the device. There is also an inherent advantage in that fuel cells provide a constant voltage while fueled, unlike batteries where voltage diminishes as they cycle down.

HPI’s battery replacement technology began with the development of AlumiFuel™, the high energy density technology that powers the chemical reaction between the water, aluminum and environmentally friendly catalyst in the Hydrogen Now™ process. It is the feed fuel designed for use in generators producing high-purity hydrogen. HPI has integrated lightweight, compact hydrogen generators with low-wattage small hydrogen fuel cells. AlumiCell™ is a battery replacement technology developed to fully realize the potential of fuel cells as battery replacements. The result is a power source that provides a constant voltage and a longer running time than is achievable with conventional battery technology. HPI believes the adoption of hydrogen fuel cells will be greatly accelerated by this efficient, cost effective, and safe process of controlled on-demand hydrogen production.

In addition to hydrogen fuel cells for battery replacement, AlumiCell™ is also being configured in higher wattage desktop units to serve as remote battery charging stations as well as a direct power source for electronic devices.