Honeywell partners with DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Honeywell has partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory on a year-long collaboration to prototype and support the commercialization of a cartridge-based hydrogen fuel storage solution for Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles. Honeywell will provide technological expertise, testing for fuel cartridge technology, supply chain support, prototyping and fuel cell evaluation to qualify for the “Fuel Additives for Solid Hydrogen Carriers in Electric Aviation” project. The FLASH project will mature a new hydrogen carrier technology developed at NREL as part of the HyMARC project. The program is funded by a partnership of the DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office, NREL, and Honeywell. The FLASH project seeks to deliver an alternative approach in which efficient and long-lasting hydrogen storage is coupled to a fuel cell that converts hydrogen to electricity to power electric UAV flight.