Recently, the 110kW marine fuel cell system independently researched and developed by China Shipbuilding Power Engineering Institute Co., Ltd. (CSPI) under CSSC Power(Group) Co.,Ltd.(CPGC) has successfully obtained the Approval-in-Principle (AIP) from Bureau Veritas (BV).
This type of marine fuel cell module has many performance advantages, such as environmental protection, high-quality materials, safety and explosion-proof, convenient maintenance, strong adaptability etc. The final emission of its fuel cell is just water, which truly enables the realisation of zero carbon emission. The model adopts high-performance graphite-metal composite bipolar plate PEMFC, which achieves the development of single-stack single-system high-power fuel cell module. The box and system einterior of the modul have two-stage passivation blowing function, which greatly improves system safety. Also, by adopting the design of electric stack and BOP partition, the maintenance is more convenient.
In addition, in order to fit the ship application environment and layout requirements, the model adopts modular structure design and layered information communication architecture, which can implement the rapid development of parallel systems with different numbers of modules, making the equipment layout more flexible and applicable to a variety of ship types, such as bulk carriers, business ships, excursion ships and so on.
The module has a broad industrialisation application prospect and is suitable for power systems up to 2 MW. It can be used as a power unit for hydrogen fuel cell ships, an electric auxiliary device for large ships, as well as applied to mobile charging stations or distributed power station systems.
In addition, the product meets the requirements of the latest “Guidelines for Fuel Cell Power Systems for Marine Use” issued by CCS, which can help the industrialisation and application of green and intelligent ships in inland waterways.
