So much ..... more to come in Q4 2021, hold onto your hats!!8 Oct 2021 13:26
"Multiple new product releases expected for second half of this calendar year."
From the half-year Report dated 23 June 2021
Bearing in mind that the second half of 2021 started just 8 days after the RNS, AFC must have been HUGELY confident of the product releases happening in the time frame advised. Product releases can be held back from the market until the company decides they are ready to be released, so as we have not had any new products in the last 3 months, I think they must be timing them for COP26 or something.
Top of the list for release in Q4 2021 is the S Series 'membrane' Fuel Cell, which AFC said would see prototypes released this calendar year. This will open up new multi-£Bn markets to AFC, in competition with products for the huge FC manufacturers.
Half year results RNS:
"Preparation for delivery of full prototype high power dense AEM fuel cell by calendar year end. "
"We believe there is likely to be strong backing for our S Series fuel cell technology once our first prototypes are ready later this year, and we are already in discussions with multiple ship designers, power providers and ship operators who are exploring the adoption of alkaline fuel cell systems onboard new and retrofitted ships as part of their commitment to achieving 50% greenhouse gas emission reductions by 2050."
"The opening of our world-class AEM research and testing facility at Dunsfold in February directly supports our roadmap for demonstration of a pre-commercial prototype of our new S-Series fuel cell stack in the second half of 2021"
Here's a left-field one that could possibly be released. I'd expect it to be a JV between AFC and De Nora, so well and truly under NDA due to their World leading Electrolysis and Chlor-Alkali knowledge.
Chior-Alkali Process and Plant
https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=GB137555604&tab=PCTDESCRIPTION&_cid=P21-KU9PDY-47204-1
Then we have the possibility of an Electrolyser, which can also be reversed to be a Fuel Cell to balance renewable energy, where you'd have several stacks set up as electrolysers (with Hydrogen storage buffer), and depending on the wind/solar/etc output level, you'd reverse some of the stacks to make them work as Fuel Cells to top up the power coming from the renewables. This is also likely to be a JV with De Nora and under NDA.
FUEL CELL OR ELECTROLYSER ASSEMBLY
https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2019069095&_cid=P21-KU9PDY-47204-1
Here's another left-field one. In the Alkamem launch PR, AFC said Alkamem was suitable for 'Fuel Synthesis'. What is 'Fuel Synthesis' I hear you ask! Just have a read of this! And it can be done by extracting CO2 from the air or from the sea!
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342018086_Fuel_production_using_membrane_reactors_a_review
Other things AFC could release are:
1) Ammonia Cracker as discussed on here recently
2) Redox Flow Battery (in the Alkamem PR)
3) Salt Water Battery (in the