Field trial agreed for ITM Power’s latest innovation

ENERGY storage and clean fuel company ITM Power has agreed the first field trial of a device that will be used for brazing components within aircraft refrigeration systems.

Ametek Airtechnology Group has agreed to trial the HFlame unit.
 
The HFlame is an alkaline electrolyser technology producing a premixed oxy-hydrogen flame.

Sheffield-based ITM Power, which has also established links with several firms to test its HFuel hydrogen fuel vehicles, claims HFlame offers a safer and more convenient method than traditional technologies which rely on bottled gases.

HFlame has been designed to replace standard gas and oxy-acetylene systems for a variety of laboratory, small industrial and workshop applications including brazing, soldering, cutting and polishing of metal, plastic, glass and quartz.
 
Dr Graham Cooley, chief executive of ITM Power, said: “HFlame is a key early revenue product for ITM and the Ametek group is an ideal trial partner for us. This product has significant advantages over the current widely used alternatives and we see great potential in several well developed markets.”