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New Micro Fuel Cell Standard in Development
by Karen Hall
Vice President, Technical Operations of the National Hydrogen
Association
IEC/TC-105 has recently approved a new work item on Micro Fuel
Cell Power Systems – Safety. It will be introduced in the
program of work as Fuel cell technologies – Part 6: Micro
Fuel Cell Power Systems – Safety, under new working group
8. The convenor is Mr. Harry Jones at Underwriters Laboratories
in the USA. Nine P-member countries approved the new work item,
and six have nominated an expert to the new working group. ISO/TC-197
has also nominated two experts for liaison. Working group 7
has a similar activity underway for portable fuel cells. One
country voted to not create the new work item, but instead to
include the aspects of the proposal into an existing activity
on portable fuel cells, in working group 7. Early activities
for this group, presumably, will be defining the terms “portable
fuel cell” and “micro fuel cell”, and determining
requirements that may be different regarding safety. We will
report more as this activity develops.
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