Toyota Installs Recently Developed Fuel Cell Generator At Its Honsha Plant In Japan

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Toyota recently installed newly developed stationary fuel cell generator at its Honsha Plant in Japan. The generator has a startup time of 40 seconds and a rated output of 100 kilowatts. (Photo courtesy of Toyota.)

Toyota Motor Corporation recently installed a new fuel cell (FC) generator at its Honsha Plant in Toyota City, Aichi, in Japan. The stationary generator, which Toyota recently developed alongside Toyota Energy Solutions, Inc., features the same fuel system used in the company’s Mirai Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle. The three-phase, three-wire FC generator has a rated output of 100 kilowatts, a rated voltage of 210 volts, frequency of 50/60 hertz, and a startup time of 40 seconds. It shares six components with the Mirai: two power control units, two fuel cell stacks, and two secondary batteries.

Effective & Efficient

To start, Toyota will perform a series of verification tests with the FC generator running at its rated output for 24 hours a day. The company will then evaluate the generator’s efficiency, output stability, durability, and ease of maintenance. Following those initial tests, Toyota plans to install more FC generators at its plants, all of which will use hydrogen from the production and testing processes as fuel. This move is part of the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050 initiative, which includes the Plant Zero CO2 Emissions challenge where the company “will continue to steadily engage in reducing the amount of CO2 it emits during its production processes.”

Toyota says it will funnel all of the information from these tests into research and development and focus on “improving the generator’s product appeal by enhancing its energy efficiency and durability, making it more compact, and reducing costs.”

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Source: Toyota