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From construction siteto inspection drone:

How zero emission hydrogen fuel cells are delivering benefits today.

July 2019


World leading fuel cell engineering

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Commercial offices

Loughborough, UKHQ, main facility

JapanTokyo– Commercial Office

Regional representation

India, USA, China

Development center

Loughborough, UK

Small, light and efficient hydrogen fuel cell power products.


Our technology

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• Our technology offers a unique solution

• Fuel cells offer extended flight times and quick refuelling

• Fuel cells are a natural solution for UAV manufacturers moving into larger UAVs with heavier payloads

UAVs Motive Portable power

• Our expertise opens up a range of opportunities in the motive sector, for range extenders and prime power

• Solutions up to 100kW+

• Back-up power and diesel replacement, for telecom towers, construction and a range of other sectors

• Field proven in India, with uptime of close to 100%

• Core fuel cell technology running on hydrogen and ambient air to produceclean DC power in a simple, cost-effective, robust and lightweight package

Fuel cell stack


Hydrogen Fuel Cells for Portable Power

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Example: Portable Power

First Zero Carbon Cabin

• Launched Feb 19

• Utilises both Fuel Cell and Solar PV

• Completely silent and emission free – perfect for ultra low emission zones

Customer: GAP Hire Solutions

• March 2019 Heathrow trial with at a Morgan Sindall construction site.

• Case study on GAP group web site

• Now in commercial deployment

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Portable Power Generator

• ECO GH2 is a 1kW hydrogen power generator

• Near silent, zero emission and off grid power

• Compact easy to handle unit

• Fuelled by hydrogen

• Can be coupled with external hybrid battery pack raising peak load capability to 5kW

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Mobile lighting tower

• Emission free, no NOX or CO2 at point of use

• Near silent operation, meets Section 61 of Control of Pollution Act 1974 with ease

• Lower life-cycle costs than standby diesel generators; with minimal service requirements

• Applications in construction and temporary events

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Hydrogen Fuel Cells for UAVs

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Measure your flight time in hours rather than minutes

• Typical battery flight time = 15mins

• Typical fuel cell flight time = over 60 minutes

Quick refueling (minutes)

Dependable flight duration

• Simple fuel pressure measure yielding measure of flight duration

Green benefits - zero emissions at point of use


Customer scenario 1: Mapping benefits

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ExampleFuel Cells

Batteries

Survey Area (km2) 160 160Number of waypoints

(refueling locations)9 36

Minimum number of refuels 36 142Time to complete survey

(days)9 16

Drones Required 1 2Maximum area scanned / day 19.5 11.2 Staging Point

Mapping Sequence

Fuel Cell: Quicker time and lower cost to complete the task


Customer scenario 2: Flight time benefits

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World's biggest offshore wind farm with 300 turbines built in Lincolnshire (2013)

Batteries

ExampleFuelCell

Small Drone

Large Drone

Flight speed (m/s)* 10 10 10

Distance covered per cylinder / battery (miles)

40.5 10.1 20.3

Distance to subject (miles) 5 5 5

Available flight time at subject 45 1 24

Fuel Cell powered drone is an application enabler

*Includes 8m/s head wind


How is this possible?

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Fuel cells and hydrogen provide much higher on board energy density.

That’s why they create value to the end user.


Example: UAV

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Professional sports filming, TV and broadcast

Battery

• 20kg MTOW

• 5kg payload

• Flight time 11 to 17 minutes

Fuel Cell

• 20kg MTOW

• 5kg payload

• Flight time 60 to 70 minutes thehydrogendrone.com


Example: UAV

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Robodex

Remote inspection

• Demonstrated at Fukushima robot test facility 12th July 2019

• Using commercially available DJI M600 drone

DJI M600 Configuration Payload Flight Time

Standard Battery 3.0kg1.5kg

20 minutes27 minutes

Fuel Cell• 2x IE FCPM 800W• 4.7ltr cylinder

1.5kg 45 minutes(200 bar cylinder)70 minutes(300 bar cylinder)

Next step• 1x IE FCPM 2400W• 9.0ltr cylinder

3.0kg 82 minutes(300 bar cylinder)

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