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Update: IEC TC-105's Technical Report on Fuel Cell Terminology
On
February 18, 2003 the International Electrotechnical Commission's Technical Committee
105 on fuel cell technologies (IEC TC-105) presented their 4th draft of the Technical
Report on Fuel Cell Terminology for review.
The report (IEC TC105-1), presented
by Working Group 1, "provides uniform terminology in the forms of diagrams,
definitions and equations related to fuel cell technologies in all applications
including but not limited to stationary power, transportation and portable power
applications,"according to the report’s introduction. The report
does not contain words and phases which can be found in standard dictionaries,
engineering references or IEC’s Multilingual Dictionary on Electricity, Electronics
and Telecommunications.
Chairman Kelvin Hecht reports: To
date, the document has been used by the other Working Groups to insure terminology
consistency with the 105 series of documents. Also, the Japanese National Committee
is suggesting the inclusion of numerous terms presumably to make this document
into a general glossary for the entire fuel cell community. Currently,
the suggestion of the Japanese National Committee is under review. The next
committee meeting is scheduled for June 18 in San Diego, the day before the 2003
IEC TC105 plenary meeting.
For another resource on C&S activities (in
addition to the Hydrogen Safety Report), visit www.fuelcellstandards.com
which houses a collection of worldwide codes and standards activities relating
to fuel cells, hydrogen and related activities. Use the username “demo”
and password “nrel.”
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