Hydrogen Aviation Power

Recently, the 2023 China International Electric Aviation Development Forum was held for the first time in Beijing Daxing International Airport's Airside Economic Zone with the theme of "Electric Aviation Development and China's Market Opportunities". With the continuous progress of hydrogen energy technology, hydrogen fuel cells are attracting more and more attention in the field of electric aviation. Ji Donghui, Product Director of Hydrogen Aviation Technology, revealed at the forum that Hydrogen Aviation Technology has been preparing for the airworthiness certification of hydrogen-powered aviation power supply, and is now mainly doing research on domestic and international regulations and standards and setting up a team.




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Supporting self-developed hydrogen-powered aviation power supply The company's hydrogen-powered drones have performed well




Hydrogen Aviation Technology's hydrogen-powered aviation power supply is the first on the self-developed hydrogen-powered UAV, through the research and development of the "Hydrogen Spin 4" and "Hydrogen Thunder Mini" two models of multi-rotor UAVs, withstood the foggy and rainy weather, low-temperature cold areas and other application scenarios, and excellently The two UAVs, "Hydrogen Thunder" and "Hydrogen Thunder Mini", have stood the test of application scenarios such as foggy and rainy weather, low-temperature and cold areas, and accomplished various tasks.


In September 2022, Hydrogen Technology's fuel cells passed the Shanghai Automotive Testing Centre's strong inspection and certification. One of the more difficult technical conditions for air-cooled reactors is fast start-up and fast activation. In the Shanghai testing and certification, Hydrogen Air's air-cooled heap has a start-up speed of 1.8 seconds. Based on the advantages of air-cooled electric heap shown in the performance, the two hydrogen-powered UAVs developed by the company have completed the practical experiments of foggy and rainy weather, wind tower, high altitude, low temperature, hovering, and other kinds of performance and environmental adaptation with excellent performance and have been certified by two CNAS laboratories of the Chinese Academy of Electric Sciences (CAES) and the Ministry of Public Security (MPS).




In recent years, Hydrogen Air Technology's Hydrogen Power System has completed the co-operation application of hydrogen-powered UAVs with several head UAV companies and research institutes. 2021, Hydrogen Air Technology reached a co-operation with State Grid's Zhejiang Shuangchuang Centre to jointly develop Hydrogen Thunder, a hydrogen-powered UAV for fine inspection of power grids. The Hydrogen Thunder flew for 2 hours and 25 minutes in Wenzhou, successfully completing the autonomous inspection operation of Wenzhou's 500kV Wangnan Line channel; in March 2022, Hydrogen Aviation Technology and Head Helicopter Research Institute jointly developed a hydrogen-powered variable-pitch multi-rotor UAV to complete the experiment, with the duration of the aerial hovering test being more than 3h. In addition to the above, the Hydrogen Aviation Technology's Hydrogen-powered UAV completed its first maritime In 2022, Hydrogen Air's multi-rotor UAV "Hydrogen Spin 4" completed the aerial inspection of Wenling tidal light complementary intelligent PV power station, with the inspection radius covering 50 km. Hydrogen Air's self-produced and self-researched hydrogen-powered aerial power supply UAVs have been rigorously tested in the market, and are in the same class of UAVs. After rigorous testing in the market, the UAV has demonstrated obvious advantages in its class, and its operational efficiency, economic benefits and environmental friendliness are all at a high level in the low altitude.




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100kg class EVTOL electric aviation Hydrogen Airtech aviation hydrogen power supply completed the first test



In 2022, Hydrogen Air Technology cooperated with an aircraft manufacturer in Shanghai to develop a new energy vehicle demonstrator, bringing a complete set of hydrogen fuel cell system solutions as a market precursor, and completing the feasibility verification of hydrogen fuel cells on a 100kg class UAV. Subsequently, the two parties have exchanged and learnt about jointly exploring the application of hydrogen fuel cell technology on medium and large-sized UAVs.



In July of the same year, the 100kg class engineering prototype completed the hydrogen-lithium hybrid hovering test within the company, and successfully completed the prototype delivery. 2023, the real machine operation is completed, and will open the flight verification. Within one year, Hydrogen Air Technology's hydrogen fuel cell has rapidly completed the verification on the 100kg class UAV, and has rapidly laid out the application of hydrogen power system in UAVs above 25kg with forward-looking vision.


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Anchoring the "Green Aerospace Manufacturing Development Programme (2023-2035)" Hydrogen Aviation Technology completes validation first



In October 2023, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Ministry of Finance (MOF), and Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) recently issued the "Outline for the Development of Green Aviation Manufacturing Industry (2023-2035)", which explicitly and actively laid out the hydrogen energy aviation track. The outline proposes that by 2025, electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL) to achieve pilot operation, hydrogen energy aircraft key technologies to complete feasibility verification.


Hydrogen Aviation Technology has been actively promoting the pilot construction of hydrogen power supply for aviation, from the testing and certification of hydrogen fuel cell stacks in the early stage, the independent research and development of hydrogen-powered UAVs to verify the hydrogen power system in specific use scenarios, and then to the joint head of the aircraft manufacturers and research institutes to develop a variety of drones for the validation of the compatibility of the different drones on the verification of the hydrogen aviation power supply in hydrogen aviation through the verification of the three major directions to deepen the hydrogen power supply for aviation gradually. Reliability. At present, Hydrogen Air Technology will further investigate the airworthiness conditions of hydrogen-powered aviation power supply, conduct in-depth research on domestic and overseas regulations and standards, set up a high-level team to create standardised, high-quality and highly reliable products of hydrogen-powered aviation power supply, and seize the opportunity for development to continue to plough into the construction of airworthiness standards for hydrogen-powered systems in the field of aviation.