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Advanced Product Water Removal and Management (APWR) Fuel Cell System

Award Information
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Branch: N/A
Contract: NNC06CA18C
Agency Tracking Number: 040356
Amount: $599,314.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: X6.04
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2004
Award Year: 2006
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2005-12-05
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2007-12-05
Small Business Information
68 Bridge Street, Suite 115
Suffield, CT 06078-2126
United States
DUNS: 127073372
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 William Smith
 Principal Investigator
 (860) 668-1845
 wsmith@infinityfuel.com
Business Contact
 William Smith
Title: President
Phone: (860) 668-1845
Email: wsmith@infinityfuel.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The proposed innovation is a passive, self-regulating, gravity-independent Advanced Product Water Removal (APWR) system for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) primary fuel cell power plants that improves power plant efficiency and reliability, reduces reactant consumption, cost, weight and volume and simplifies the supporting system requirements in both near-term and advanced missions.
Phase I program single cell test results demonstrated the function and feasibility of the innovation. The APWR power plant study demonstrated reliability, reactant saving, weight and volume saving and scalability improvements relative to both alkaline and conventional PEM power plants. Elimination of the pumps, rotating water separators and other components these conventional systems require saves weight, eliminates parasite power, saves the reactants to produce parasite power and improves reliability. APWR also simplifies the stack saving weight and volume and providing power plant scalability. APWR is based on PEM technology proven in automotive and commercial applications but not applied to space power plants: NASA need not carry the cost burden of developing this technology alone.
The proposed Phase II program will demonstrate the viability of APWR technology at the stack level and establish an Engineering Data Base for power plant and full scale stack designs.

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