(Invited) High Performing Fuel Cell Stack and Systems

Abstract

PowerCellGroup has worked in the field of fuel cell systems and fuel cell stacks for more than 25 years. The development of both systems and stacks have gone hand in hand and have been important to reach the targets for both.The fuel cell stack currently offered to the market has been developed during the last 10 years. Starting out with focus on passenger vehicles to achieve the requirements on power density. The second step the development was tailored to meet the demands from heavy-duty usage, that requires high efficiency at high power output and longer durability as well as increased operating temperature. This second stage unlocked the usage of fuel cell in more applications like, stationary high-power generation, off-rad machinery and lately the aviation sector.The later years the implementation of hydrogen and fuel cell on the market have accelerated and more commercial usage putting larger requirement on higher power, longer durability, higher operating temperatures etc. For example, how to install several MW into marine vessels.The third phase that we are now entering is to take the fuel cell to the next level, to the sky. Improving power density towards 5-6 kW/kg, operating temperature up to 120°C, and larger stack sizes 300 kW scalable to about 1 MW this to meet the higher power demand by aircraft. PowerCell is on a good track in all these aspects to be ready for the future. In this talk will be about how we constantly improving and challenging the fuel cell system and fuel cell stacks to be used in commercial operation.