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SUMMARY
The market driving force for micro fuel cells is the demand for better energy
sources than batteries. Renewable energy is needed to be the base source.
Batteries are a chemical process, but they do not last long enough. Fuel cells
promise to provide more reliable, longer portable power than batteries.
Investment is needed to decrease the micro fuel cell component costs.
Economies of scale are needed to make micro fuel cells competitive. Micro fuel
cell systems are far less expensive than the alternative battery technologies
in the long run.
Micro fuel cell products compete with power systems that utilize both direct
and indirect energy conversion methods. Direct conversion may involve fuels
such as methanol, ethanol and sodium borohydride that are converted into
electrons through a direct fuel cell system.
During the war in Iraq, the military ran out of batteries. Supply managers
took batteries out of every other location worldwide. Battery companies worked
24 x 7 and could not product the needed batteries. Three days of batteries
were on hand when the war ended. The military has to build a micro fuel cell
substitute for batteries.
The market demand for these fuel cells is evolving. Mass-market acceptance is
anticipated by 2008, with 145 million units in sales by 2010. The strong
growth is anticipated to be starting in 2007 and 2008.
Markets are strongly impacted by the timing of the approval of letting unit be
carried in the cabin of an airplane. Units are now approved for the baggage
hold of an aircraft, leading one to believe that approval in 2007 is a
reasonable expectation. The concern has been handling of explosive materials.
The market demand for micro fuel cells is building towards mass-market
acceptance by 2008. Markets are anticipated to be $510-million worldwide by
2008, with the strong growth occurring in 2007 and 2008 as technology becomes
mature and products start to work.
By 2013, micro fuel cell markets reach $11 billion. This represents a range of
PC, handset, PDA, and digital device segments in a variety of industry,
military, and health care segments.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. MICRO FUEL CELL MARKET DESCRIPTION AND MARKET DYNAMICS 1-1
- 1.1 Fuel Cell Description 1-1
- 1.1.1 Micro Fuel Cell Description 1-3
- 1.1.2 Market Opportunity for Micro Fuel Cell Products 1-5
- 1.2 Micro Fuel Cell Target Markets 1-8
- 1.2.1 Military As A Micro Fuel Cell Target Market 1-8
- 1.2.2 Micro Fuel Cell Portable Medical Equipment 1-12
- 1.2.3 Micro Fuel Cell Laptop Computer Market 1-14
- 1.2.4 Micro Fuel Cell Consumer Electronics Portable Power Source 1-14
- 1.2.5 Micro Fuel Cell Laptop Computer Power Source 1-16
- 1.3 Fuel Cell Fuel Distribution and Infrastructure 1-17
- 1.4 Approvals From The United Nations And Related Regulatory Organizations
1-17
- 1.4.1 Fuel Cells Compared to Rechargeable Batteries 1-19
- 1.4.2 Fuel Cells Compared 1-20
- 1.5 RV Recreational Micro Fuel Cell Markets 1-22
2. MICRO FUEL CELL MARKET SHARES AND MARKET FORECASTS 2-1
- 2.1 Market Driving Force For Micro Fuel Cells 2-1
- 2.2 Micro Fuel Cell Market Shares 2-8
- 2.2.1 Micro Fuel Cell Companies 2-9
- 2.2.2 Toshiba Direct Methanol Micro Fuel Cell 2-12
- 2.2.3 Medis Battery -Recharging Fuel Cell 2-16
- 2.2.4 Japanese Micro Fuel Cell Commercialization 2-16
- 2.2.5 United States Micro Fuel Cell Commercialization 2-17
- 2.2.6 Motorola 2-17
- 2.2.7 Ballard 2-18
- 2.2.8 Smart Fuel Cell AG (SFC) Fuel Cell Cost Reduction 2-18
- 2.3 Micro Fuel Cell Market Forecasts 2-19
- 2.3.1 Micro Fuel Cell Market Unit Shipment Forecasts 2-19
- 2.3.2 Micro Fuel Cell Market Shipment Forecasts, Dollars 2-20
- 2.3.3 Micro Fuel Cells Replace Portable Batteries 2-22
- 2.3.4 Viable Commercial Micro Fuel Cell 2-23
- 2.4 Digital Device Forecasts 2-24
- 2.5 Micro Fuel Cell Industry Segment Analysis 2-25
- 2.5.1 Military Uses Of Micro Fuel Cells 2-31
- 2.5.2 Micro Fuel Cell Military Applications 2-31
- 2.5.3 Micro Fuel Cell Business Strategy Leverages Strength in Military
Markets 2-33
- 2.5.4 Micro Fuel Cell Business Strategy Leverages Strength in Military
Markets 2-34
- 2.5.5 Wireless Handset Uses Of Micro Fuel Cells 2-35
- 2.5.6 Portable PCs Uses Of Micro Fuel Cells 2-38
- 2.5.7 Rechargeable Batteries Vs Micro Fuel Cells 2-39
- 2.5.8 Micro Fuel Cell Health Care Applications 2-40
- 2.5.9 Micro Fuel Cell Digital Camera And Camcorder Applications 2-41
- 2.6 Micro Fuel Cell Prices 2-41
- 2.7 Research Budgets 2-42
- 2.8 Micro Fuel Cell Delivery Of Fuel 2-44
- 2.8.1 Direct Methanol 2-44
- 2.8.2 Sodium Borohydride Mixture 2-45
- 2.8.3 Hydrogen 2-46
- 2.8.4 Nano Particles 2-47
- 2.8.5 Direct Borohydride 2-47
- 2.8.6 Industry Maturing 2-48
3. MICRO FUEL CELL PRODUCT DESCRIPTION 3-1
- 3.1 Digital Devices Provide Market for Fuel Cells 3-1
- 3.2 Toshiba Micro Fuel Cell 3-1
- 3.2.1 Toshiba Direct Methanol Fuel Cell 3-1
- 3.2.2 Toshiba Methanol Concentration 3-3
- 3.2.3 Toshiba Portege M200 Tablet PC Fuel Cells 3-3
- 3.2.4 NEC Fuel Cell Carbon Nanotubes Toshiba / CRDC Compact Fuel Cell
For Notebook PCs 3-4
- 3.2.5 Toshiba Methanol Fuel Cell for Notebook PCs 3-5
- 3.3 Casio Laptop Fuel Cell 3-6
- 3.4 Millennium Cell Power Laptop 3-7
- 3.4.1 Millennium Cell Laptop Fuel Cells 3-8
- 3.4.2 Millennium Cell / Protonex Portable Power System 3-8
- 3.5 Smart Fuel Cell (SFC) Fuel Cell Systems 3-9
- 3.5.1 Smart Fuel Cell (SFC) Direct Methanol Fuel Cells 3-12
- 3.5.2 Smart Fuel Cell (SFC) Applications 3-13
- 3.5.3 Smart Fuel Cell (SFC) Electric Device Power 3-13
- 3.5.4 SFC DMFC prototype 3-14
- 3.5.5 SFC Market 3-15
- 3.5.6 SFC PowerBoy 3-16
- 3.6 MTI MicroFuel Cells 3-17
- 3.6.1 MTI MicroFuel Cells 3-17
- 3.7 Medis Technologies 3-18
- 3.7.1 Medis Technologies Micro Fuel Cell 3-18
- 3.7.2 Medis Micro Fuel Cell 3-18
- 3.7.3 Medis Fuel Cell Products 3-18
- 3.7.4 Medis Fuel Cell Disposable Power Pack Products 3-19
- 3.7.5 Medis Fuel Cell Refuelable Power Pack 3-22
- 3.7.6 Medis Fuel Cell Technology 3-23
- 3.8 Samsung DMFC Prototype Fuel Cell 3-26
- 3.9 Ballard Micro Fuel Cells 3-26
- 3.10 NEC Fuel Cell Carbon Nanotubes 3-28
- 3.10.1 Fuel Cell Nanotechnology at NEC 3-29
- 3.10.2 NEC Laptop PC Powered By Micro-Fuel Cells 3-31
- 3.11 Materials and Energy Research Institute Tokyo (Merit) Direct
Borohydride Technology Powers Fuel Cells 3-35
- 3.12 Wireless Handset Fuel Cell Products 3-38
- 3.13 Nokia Fuel-Cell Battery Plans 3-38
- 3.14 NTT Mobile-Phone Hydrogen Fuel Cell 3-39
- 3.15 Motorola Direct Methanol Fuel Cell 3-39
- 3.16 Manhattan Scientifics Delivers Fuel Cell Unit To U.S. Army 3-40
- 3.17 NEC DMFC Mobile-Phone Hydrogen Fuel Cell 3-41
- 3.18 Hitachi, Toshiba Show Portable Direct Methanol Fuel Cells 3-42
- 3.18.1 Hitachi And Toshiba Mobile Phone Fuel Cell Rechargers 3-44
- 3.19 NTT DoCoMo and Fujitsu Laboratories Mobile Phone Fuel Cell Rechargers
3-45
- 3.20 NEC DMFC Fuel Cell Launch 3-45
4. MICRO FUEL CELL SERVER TECHNOLOGY 4-1
- 4.1 Fuel cell Electrochemical Reaction 4-1
- 4.2 Organizations With Fuel Cell Information 4-2
- 4.3 Micro Fuel Cells For Consumer Electronics 4-2
- 4.3.1 Toshiba 4-3
- 4.3.2 Hitachi / Tokai 4-4
- 4.3.3 SFC Energetic Revolution powered by Smart Fuel Cell 4-4
- 4.4 Clean And Silent Micro Fuel Cell Power Generation By Methanol 4-7
- 4.5 Storing Hydrogen 4-7
- 4.5.1 Sodium Borohydride Storing of Hydrogen 4-7
- 4.5.2 Borohydride Hydrogen Generation 4-8
- 4.5.3 International Electrotechnical Commission Forms Working Group 4-8
- 4.6 PolymerElectrolyte Membrane 4-9
- 4.7 Sodium Borohydride Chemical Power 4-10
- 4.8 Bacterial Enzymes Replacement For The Platinum Catalysts 4-11
- 4.9 Portable Applications 4-12
- 4.9.1 Fuel Cell Power Packs 4-12
- 4.9.2 Casio Use Of Fuel Cell Technology In Mobile Devices 4-13
- 4.9.3 PolyFuel Honeycomb Membrane 4-14
- 4.9.4 Portable Electronic Fuel Cell Devices 4-14
- 4.9.5 Marketing Limitation Of Hydrogen Gas Or Methanol Powered Fuel
Cells 4-15
- 4.9.6 Hitachi Compact DMFC 4-16
- 4.9.7 NEC Compact DMFC 4-16
- 4.9.8 Toshiba's DMFC 4-17
- 4.9.9 Toshiba Fuel Cell 4-17
- 4.9.10 PolyFuel Direct Methanol Fuel Cells 4-18
- 4.9.11 PolyFuel Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Membrane 4-18
- 4.9.12 NEC Product Plans 4-19
- 4.9.13 Toshiba Prototype Battery Charger Based On Direct Methanol Fuel
Cell Technology 4-19
- 4.9.14 Hitachi Direct Methanol Fuel Cell 4-20
- 4.9.15 PolyFuel Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Membrane 4-20
- 4.9.16 MTI Micro 4-20
- 4.9.17 Manhattan Scientifics 4-21
- 4.9.18 Manhattan Scientifics / NovArs Mid -range Fuel Cell Technology
4-21
- 4.9.19 Millennium Cell / Samsung 4-23
- 4.10 Bacteria Micro Fuel Cell Products 4-26
5. MICRO FUEL CELL COMPANY PROFILES 5-1
- 5.1 Altair Nanomaterials 5-2
- 5.2 Asahi Glass 5-3
- 5.3 Ball Aerospace 5-8
- 5.4 Ballard 5-11
- 5.4.1 Ballard AET 5-13
- 5.4.2 Ballard NGL Recovery Unit 5-13
- 5.4.3 Ballard Nitrogen Rejection 5-14
- 5.4.4 Ballard Monomer Recovery 5-15
- 5.4.5 Ballard Ammonia Purge Gas 5-16
- 5.4.6 Ballard Methanol Purge Gas 5-16
- 5.5 Dow Chemical Company 5-17
- 5.5.1 Energy Is Business Critical For Dow 5-18
- 5.6 E-TEK 5-20
- 5.7 Fuel Cell Components and Integrators 5-21
- 5.7.1 Fuel Cell Components and Integrators / TechnaPulse 5-23
- 5.7.2 Fuel Cell Components and Integrators (FCCI) Facilities 5-23
- 5.8 Gore 5-24
- 5.8.1 Gore Fuel-Cell Business Model 5-25
- 5.8.2 Gore MEA Recycling 5-26
- 5.8.3 Gore MEAs For High-Temperature / Direct Methanol Fuel Cells 5-26
- 5.8.4 Gore Sales And Customer Service Sites 5-26
- 5.9 GrafTech International 5-27
- 5.9.1 GrafTech Revenue 5-28
- 5.9.2 GrafTech International Patents 5-28
- 5.10 Hoku Scientific 5-28
- 5.10.1 Hoku Scientific / SANYO Electric 5-29
- 5.10.2 Team 5-31
- 5.11 ICM Plastics' 5-32
- 5.12 Johnson Matthey 5-34
- 5.12.1 Catalyzed Components For Fuel Cells 5-37
- 5.12.2 Johnson Matthey Global ECT auto catalyst 5-38
- 5.13 Manhattan Scientifics 5-39
- 5.14 Medis Technologies 5-39
- 5.14.1 Medis Partners 5-40
- 5.15 Millenium 5-41
- 5.15.1 Millennium Cell / Dow Chemical Military And Commercial
Applications 5-41
- 5.15.2 Millennium Cell Fuel Cell Product Platforms 5-42
- 5.15.3 Millennium Cell Fourth Quarter Revenue 2004 5-43
- 5.15.4 Millennium Cell 5-44
- 5.15.5 Millennium Cell Hydrogen Energy Systems 5-45
- 5.15.6 Millennium Cell Technology Differentiation From Batteries And
From Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFC) 5-45
- 5.16 Mechanical Technology Incorporated (MTI) 5-46
- 5.16.1 MTI MicroFuel Cells 5-47
- 5.16.2 MTI MicroFuel / Intermec 5-48
- 5.17 Motorola 5-48
- 5.17.1 Motorola Positioning 5-49
- 5.17.2 Motorola Revenue 5-50
- 5.18 NEC Corporation 5-54
- 5.18.1 NEC Research And Development Labs 5-54
- 5.18.2 NEC IT And Networking Technologies 5-57
- 5.18.3 NEC Network Solutions Business 5-61
- 5.18.4 NEC Internet Broadband Network Positioning 5-62
- 5.18.5 PEMEAS Fuel Cell Technologies 5-62
- 5.18.6 PEMEAS Celtec® Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) 5-64
- 5.18.7 Celtec®- Heart Of The Fuel Cell 5-64
- 5.19 SGL Technologies 5-66
- 5.19.1 SGL Technologies Graphite Electrodes 5-67
- 5.20 Smart Fuel Cell 5-69
- 5.20.1 Smart Fuel Cell Designs 5-69
- 5.20.2 Smart Fuel Cell SFC Partners 5-69
- 5.20.3 SFC Development Directions 5-70
- 5.20.4 SFC Fuel cell stack 5-70
- 5.21 Solvay 5-71
- 5.22 Toshiba 5-73
- 5.22.1 Toshiba Organization 5-74
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