Abstract
Proton exchange membrane fuel cell and electrolyzer manufacturing are in the early stages of rapid expansion. Many companies have announced plans for significantly increase their manufacturing capacity through new facilities or expansion of existing facilities. This increase in scale is necessary to achieve system-cost and emission-reduction targets. However, manufacturing speed is not a knob that can simply be turned up to produce high performance, durable systems. Manufacturing processes must be understood and developed to produce fuel cells and electrolyzers that meet the requirements for both throughput and performance.The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO) has launched a new consortium, the Roll-to-Roll (R2R) Consortium, to conduct process science and engineering research for fuel cell and electrolyzer manufacturing. R2R’s mission is to advance efficient, high-throughput, and high-quality manufacturing methods and processes to accelerate domestic manufacturing and reduce the capital cost of durable and high-performing systems. Three major research thrusts in catalyst synthesis process science, MEA fabrication process science, and quality control are set to address challenges associated with high-volume manufacturing, which is supported by additional activities including the development of characterization tools suited for the needs of the manufacturing environment, process modeling, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and technoeconomic analysis (TEA). The objective of these activities is to enable increased production speed, yield, and efficiency to achieve fuel cell and electrolyzer manufacturing rate and cost targets. This talk will provide an overview of the R2R Consortium’s research activities.
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