Canada-based ZincNyx Energy Solutions has started “mass production” of zinc-air battery fuel cell and charging components, owner MGX Minerals has announced.
MGX did not release production details, but said ZincNyx, which it acquired last year, had received its “first shipment of components for its 20 kilowatt / 120 kilowatt-hour storage zinc-air fuel cell battery”.
The core regenerator and fuel cell module components were manufactured using high volume injection moulding, MGX said. “The design for manufacturing of the components was completed at the end of June and transition to tooling and production has proceeded smoothly.”
“The regenerator and fuel cell parts form the nucleus of ZincNyx’s commercial mass storage system which will provide four times the capacity of earlier models,” MGX said.
ZincNyx has said its technology “consists of three main subsystems that use zinc and air to store energy in the form of zinc particles”. The company has already developed a modular energy storage system for energy storage in the 5kW to one-megawatt range “for extended periods of time”.
MGX president and CEO Jared Lazerson said earlier this year ZincNyx intended to produce 1,000 flow battery units annually by early January 2019.
