Natural Gas
HEI’s reputation within the space industry for Hydrogen COPV innovation attracted the world’s early adapters of Hydrogen for on-board use of automotive Hydrogen for fuel storage.
Products & Services
Filament Winding
HyPerComp
The 4 axis multiple spindle machines allows HEI to custom design wrapping patterns for custom COPVs and fiber or resin evaluations. The filament winding machines can utilize wet or prepreg filament winding processes to wrap COPVs. HEI specializes in custom designed patterns to design and build ultra-light COPVs.
Damage Tolerance
HyPerComp
HyPerComp has developed a "benign-failure-mode" capability which greatly reduces the likelihood of catastrophic pressure vessel failures resulting in injury or death. This technology has demonstrated the ability of a composite pressure vessel to survive the impact of a 50 caliber bullet round at 4,500 psi. The benefit of such a capability is readily evident in the form of increased safety for all users of high pressure fuel and oxygen storage who must operate in an environment exposing them to ballistic and other impact hazards. The decreased risk of injury due to fragmentation, explosion and "sympathetic detonation" of highly pressurized storage cylinders is of great potential benefit for the military across the board.
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Description
HEI’s reputation within the space industry for Hydrogen COPV innovation attracted the world’s early adapters of Hydrogen for on-board use of automotive Hydrogen for fuel storage. HEI successfully supplied the first “proof of concept” extreme high pressure gaseous and cryogenic compressed Hydrogen automotive solutions to the global leaders of automotive OEMs in the early adaption of Hydrogen COPVs and their proof-of-concept success. We have successfully demonstrated capabilities in cryogenic compressed Hydrogen as well as very high pressure gaseous hydrogen, of which there is a representative top-level summary below. Specifics are available to our clients on a case-by-case basis.
