Bronkhorst
Renewable energy

(Renewable) Energy

We understand that flow control and dosing solutions play a key role in your processes for solar cell production. Also, hydrogen production and fuel testing rely on accurate flow controllers. Let us help you! Bronkhorst is well known within the Energy Research and Production Market as a supplier of mass flow & pressure measurement and control solutions.

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Examples of applications

  • gas mixing for yield and pollution research
  • humidification of fuel cell gases
  • (photovoltaic) solar cell production
  • odorisation of natural gas


Application notes

Flow controllers in battery manufacturing

Flow controllers in battery manufacturing

In battery manufacturing, mass flow controllers are used to dose electrolyte in a lithium-ion battery for the best lifetime and the highest capacity.

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Leak testing of fuel cell stacks

High quality fuel cell stacks are important parts in the process of car manufacturing. Read our customer story using flow/pressure combinations used for the quality control of these fuel cell stacks.  

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Leak testing of fuel cell stack for cars
Hydrogen storage in liquid organic hydrogen carriers

Hydrogen storage

Read our application note about Coriolis Flow Meters combined with WADose HPLC pump or HNP pumps for a research setup to investigate hydrogen storage with synthetic aromatic-based heat transfer oils that act as a liquid organic hydrogen carrier, LOHC.

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Power to gas

Customer story about a natural power-to-gas application for storing green electricity by using hydrogen and CO2 as 'food' for bacteria. The excreted methane can be fed into the natural gas network already present.

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Natural power to gas application
Hydrogen storage in metal hydride

Hydrogen storage in metal hydride

Application story by the DLR in Stuttgart about alternative ways to store hydrogen for use in fuel cells or vehicles using gas flow meters and pressure controllers. 

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Humidification of fuel cells

Application story of Bronkhorst evaporation system used in a test bench in the German automotive industry for generating a controlled water vapour flow for humidification of fuel cells.

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Fuel cell for automotive industry
Solar panels

Passivation layers for solar cells

Flow instruments can be used for applying thin aluminium oxide passivation layers on solar cells for efficency improvement.

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Flow control in PV solar cell production

In the manufacturing process for photovoltaic (PV) solar cells, supply of gaseous or liquid chemical compounds plays an important role.

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Solar panels
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Reducing earthquakes when exploiting geothermal energy

Geothermal energy seems to be a good replacement for a part of the currently used nuclear energy in Switzerland.

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Electrolyser membrane testing

Mass flow meters are used in this setup to measure the hydrogen en oxygen flow. Read more about using flow meters in electrolyser membrane testing!

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Hydrogen flow meter in setup
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Flow control in formic acid production

The replacement of fossil fuel is a hot topic these days. Team FAST, a student team of the TU/e is working on an initiative, introducing a revolutionary sustainable fuel called Hydrozine.

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Other markets

Bronkhorst instruments are used for numerous applications in many different markets. They can be found in laboratories, universities, industry, production and pilot plants and even in areas or installations with risk of explosion. A substantial part of the produced instruments is integrated in manufacturing machines or equipment of so called OEM-customers (Original Equipment Manufacturers).