HyPoint is investing GBP 11 million in its team, as well as a new research, development and production centre at Discovery Park in Kent in UK. It is part of its commitment to advancing zero carbon-emission aviation by developing its turbo air-cooled hydrogen fuel cell systems for aviation and urban air mobility, in the UK. The NASA award-winning hydrogen fuel cell pioneer is accelerating hydrogen innovation in the UK, from its new flagship location, less than two hours southeast of London. From its new facilities, HyPoint will apply its technology for a variety of aviation and urban air mobility uses, including for logistic drones, air taxis, electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles eVTOLs and fixed-wing airplanes. Over the next two years, the company plans to increase its team to more than 50 employees at the Sandwich-based science and innovation park.The environmental potential offered by HyPoint was recognised by 10 Downing Street at the Green Investment Summit in October 2021. By the end of 2025, the company expects to employ more than 100 workers and have 100 megawatts of onsite plant capacity.HyPoint’s NASA award-winning approach utilises compressed air for both cooling and oxygen supply to deliver a hydrogen fuel cell system that radically outperforms existing battery and hydrogen fuel cell alternatives. By utilising specialised high-temperature membranes and an industry-first air-cooling system, HyPoint’s technology is able to deliver unprecedented performance while reducing total system weight by more than 60 per cent. Testing has shown that HyPoint’s current system delivers 2,000 W/kg of specific power, more than triple the power-to-weight ratio of traditional liquid-cooled hydrogen fuel cells systems, and 1,500 Wh/kg of energy density, more than seven times the energy density of current battery systems.Aviation produced 2.4 per cent of global CO2 emissions in 2018, which as a country would rank it 6th in the world between Japan and Germany and represents a greater share of global CO2 emissions than the 136 lowest-polluting countries combined. Non-CO2 effects, such as warming induced by aircraft contrails and other pollutants, bring aviation’s combined total contribution to global warming to approximately 5 per cent. With fossil fuelled airplanes sold today expected to be in operation for decades, and air transportation is expected to continually increase, aviation’s contribution to climate change is expected to grow rapidly compared with other sectors that are already decarbonising.
HyPoint is investing GBP 11 million in its team, as well as a new research, development and production centre at Discovery Park in Kent in UK. It is part of its commitment to advancing zero carbon-emission aviation by developing its turbo air-cooled hydrogen fuel cell systems for aviation and urban air mobility, in the UK. The NASA award-winning hydrogen fuel cell pioneer is accelerating hydrogen innovation in the UK, from its new flagship location, less than two hours southeast of London. From its new facilities, HyPoint will apply its technology for a variety of aviation and urban air mobility uses, including for logistic drones, air taxis, electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles eVTOLs and fixed-wing airplanes. Over the next two years, the company plans to increase its team to more than 50 employees at the Sandwich-based science and innovation park.The environmental potential offered by HyPoint was recognised by 10 Downing Street at the Green Investment Summit in October 2021. By the end of 2025, the company expects to employ more than 100 workers and have 100 megawatts of onsite plant capacity.HyPoint’s NASA award-winning approach utilises compressed air for both cooling and oxygen supply to deliver a hydrogen fuel cell system that radically outperforms existing battery and hydrogen fuel cell alternatives. By utilising specialised high-temperature membranes and an industry-first air-cooling system, HyPoint’s technology is able to deliver unprecedented performance while reducing total system weight by more than 60 per cent. Testing has shown that HyPoint’s current system delivers 2,000 W/kg of specific power, more than triple the power-to-weight ratio of traditional liquid-cooled hydrogen fuel cells systems, and 1,500 Wh/kg of energy density, more than seven times the energy density of current battery systems.Aviation produced 2.4 per cent of global CO2 emissions in 2018, which as a country would rank it 6th in the world between Japan and Germany and represents a greater share of global CO2 emissions than the 136 lowest-polluting countries combined. Non-CO2 effects, such as warming induced by aircraft contrails and other pollutants, bring aviation’s combined total contribution to global warming to approximately 5 per cent. With fossil fuelled airplanes sold today expected to be in operation for decades, and air transportation is expected to continually increase, aviation’s contribution to climate change is expected to grow rapidly compared with other sectors that are already decarbonising.
