USFCC Publishes Protocol on Fuel Cell Component Testing: Primer for Generating Test Plans

A joint task force of the USFCC Materials and Components Working Group and the USFCC Transportation Working Group has issued a Protocol on Fuel Cell Component Testing: Primer for Generating Test Plans. The USFCC and the fuel cell industry are very interested in the potential effects of impurities in hydrogen on the performance of fuel cells. USFCC has generated a series of documents to support the effort on investigating these impurities. The intent of these documents is to give guidance to the investigators so that test data that is collected will be sufficient to generate numeric models to predict the performance of a cell with time.

The purpose of this document is to supply guidance to the fuel cell industry on the testing of fuel impurities on Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrodes. This guidance is in the form of a primer for generating test plans. This primer addresses the types of testing and the sequence of testing required by the industry to generate the test data necessary for determining the effects of an impurity on the performance of a fuel cell.

The primer is available on the USFCC website at:
www.usfcc.com/resources/Trans-H2Quality-Primer-04-003.pdf