ACTIF – Advanced Characterisation of Fuel cell stacks for automotive applications

• Research unit: SFOE
• Project number: SI/501764

Key words (English)

Model-based characterization of proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEFC) stacks, degradation modeling, state-of-health estimation of PEFC, dynamic drive train analysis

Short description (English)

The project ACTIF aims at optimized operation strategies for automotive fuel cell systems regarding the three main aspects efficiency, life-time and costs on the stack level. This will be enabled by a significantly enhanced understanding of fuel cell stacks on the base of innovative and advanced characterization and analysis. The project is a French-German-Swiss initiative for research collaboration on fuel cells and hydrogen for automotive application. German partners apply for funding within NIP2 (National Innovation Programme for Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Technology). French partners will apply for funding at Direction Générale Energie et Climat. ZHAW from Switzerland will apply for Swiss funding. Collaboration within Switzerland between the Institute of Computational Physics at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and the Swiss company GreenGT will target the time-dependent modelbased characterization of fuel cell stacks and fuel cell systems. This will include the modeling of stack degradation depending on load and humidity cylcing and the calculation of estimators to predict the state-of-health of a fuel cell stack.

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