Shanhaiqi Secures Tens of Millions in Angel Round Funding from CASSTAR for PEM Tech Expansion

[SMM Hydrogen Energy News Brief: Changdu Signs Large-Scale Hydrogen Energy Quad-Generation Comprehensive New Energy Project] Recently, facilitated by the Tibet Chamber of Commerce in Tianjin, a hydrogen, oxygen, heat, and electricity quad-generation system project with a total investment of no less than 1.5 billion yuan was signed and landed in Changdu City, Tibet, injecting new momentum into Tianjin-Tibet industrial collaboration and Tibet's clean energy development. The project was signed between the Changdu Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau and Hangzhou Fenghua Hydrogen Energy Technology Co., Ltd., a core enterprise under the Yangtze Delta Region Institute of Tsinghua University, Zhejiang. The project covers the entire industry chain of green industries, encompassing multiple sectors including PV, water electrolysis for hydrogen and oxygen production, ammonia and methanol synthesis, and hydrogen energy heavy-duty truck operations. The core technology adopts a megawatt-level PEM hydrogen-oxygen-heat-electricity quad-generation system, which relies on PV green electricity to produce green hydrogen and green oxygen, achieving cascaded energy utilization through oxygen supply and sales, hydrogen-to-electricity conversion, and waste heat heating, facilitating efficient energy utilization and livelihood improvement on the plateau.

[SMM Hydrogen Energy Brief: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics' New Air-Cooled Stack Technology Passes Appraisal] On May 10, the high specific power cathode-closed air-cooled stack technology developed by the team of Academician Chen Zhongwei and Associate Researcher Zhang Meng from the National Key Laboratory of Energy Catalytic Conversion at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics passed the scientific and technological achievement appraisal by China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation. This achievement breaks through three core key technologies, effectively resolving the industry contradiction between water retention and oxygen mass transfer in air-cooled fuel cells, and solving technical challenges such as low humidity performance degradation, carbon corrosion, dry membrane flooding, and high power thermal management. Currently, the team has construction completed a full-chain independent R&D system from materials and components to systems, holds 21 China invention patents, has established an automated production line and possesses large-scale delivery capability. Related products have been applied in fields such as agriculture and forestry operations, power inspection, and emergency rescue. Industrial drones equipped with this technology have achieved a driving range improvement of more than twice that of traditional batteries.