NPL offers cutting-edge testing and consultancy services for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFC). Our capabilities span from single cell testing up to short stacks. Testing is performed on state-of-the-art, fully automated test stations, ensuring measurement data of the highest quality, consistency and repeatability.
Our stable platforms support multi-modal measurements by seamlessly integrating online gas analysis or sampling from gas/liquid streams. We often leverage NPL’s broader expertise across materials science and analytical chemistry for ex situ and post-mortem studies with microscopy and spectroscopy.
We have a range of standard cell hardware with various actives areas from 25 cm2 to ca. 300 cm2 short stacks. We can adapt our testing to client requirements, but regularly test against recognised standards. Short stack fuel cell testing can also be performed with an anode recirculation loop, simulating practical applications and allowing for investigations into hydrogen utilisation, purge optimisation and more.
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