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The Ion Pair MEA does not use water as the conducting medium.
It is based on a unique proprietary chemistry developed by Advent and our collaborators. “No water needed” means that the HT-PEM fuel cell system’s balance of plant and thus the design, testing, and manufacturing is much simpler.
Things you don’t have to worry about:
Overheating, freezing, humidity high or low, ambient temperature (-20 °C to 55 °C), purity of air intake. All these factors have minimal or no effect on the HT-PEM fuel cell performance while they can be life-ending for a typical LT-PEM system.
And all this while being able to use a liquid fuel like eMethanol (a perfect green hydrogen carrier) directly.
(Our systems require a single-stage methanol or alternative eFuel gas reformer, typically yielding approximately 70% hydrogen and 1-2% carbon monoxide, with the remaining balance being carbon dioxide. In contrast, competing systems necessitate costly multistage reformers and palladium-based purifiers to maintain carbon monoxide levels below 10-15 ppm, a requirement for the operation of LT PEM.)
