A view of Hanwha Aerospace Pangyo R&D Center. Photo Credit: Hanwha Aerospace
Hanwha Aerospace (Changwon, South Korea), a subsidiary of Hanwha Group (Hanwha Cimarron, manufacturer of large, Type IV composite tanks, is also housed under this group), is starting to develop a hydrogen fuel cell system to be used in urban air mobility (UAM), which follows an order the company recently won for the “Fuel Cell Lightweight Technology Development for Aviation Mobility” project announced by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Korea Energy Technology Evaluation Institute.
The four-year project costs approximately 21 billion won ($17 billion). Hanwha Aerospace plans to secure core technologies for hydrogen fuel cells for aviation by 2025, such as improving fuel cell performance and reducing system weight.
To get to this point, the company has already…