Rapid End-of-Line Testing for the Hydrogen Economy

氢经济的快速下线测试

• 批准号: 575749-2022
• 负责人: Kjeang, ErikEA
• 金额: $ 11.51万
• 依托单位: Simon Fraser University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=760553
• 关键词: Rapid; End; Line; Testing; Hydrogen

The hydrogen strategy for Canada sets the target for hydrogen to provide up to 30% of the country's energy demand by 2050. In this context, green hydrogen produced by electrolysis is the cleanest source of hydrogen, and hydrogen fuel cells offer the most efficient and clean method for generating power from hydrogen. Therefore, fuel cells and electrolyzers are perceived as key enablers of the emerging hydrogen economy. As technology and infrastructure development for the hydrogen economy advances, mass manufacturing practices to rapidly produce and test electrochemical cells at high throughput and low cost becomes of critical importance. In this context, the electrochemical stack end-of-line (EOL) process has typically three stages: leak-test, activation, and electrochemical characterization. These tests take several hours to complete, whereas the EOL manufacturing requirement is to complete the EOL stage within minutes. The proposed research is envisioned to develop rapid EOL test methods and diagnostic hardware that can detect a failure in an electrochemical stack within minutes, thereby addressing one of the major bottlenecks in the mass production of the hydrogen economy. The project will form a new university-industry research partnership between Simon Fraser University (SFU) Fuel Cell Research Lab (FCReL) and Greenlight Innovation Corp. (GI), covering the required expertise, facilities, and knowledge translation to generate transformative results and outcomes. Specifically, this partnership will merge FCReL's vast expertise and research tools on fuel cell diagnostics with GI's industrial leadership as the most established global leader in electrochemical test systems.

加拿大的氢策略设定了氢的目标，到2050年到2050年，最多可提供该国的能源需求的30％。在这种情况下，电解产生的绿色氢是最清洁的氢来源，氢燃料燃料电池是从氢中产生动力的最有效，最干净的方法。因此，燃料电池和电解液被认为是新兴氢经济的关键推动剂。随着氢经济发展的技术和基础设施的发展，以高吞吐量和低成本生产和测试电化学细胞的大规模制造实践变得至关重要。在这种情况下，电化学堆栈线（EOL）过程通常具有三个阶段：泄漏测试，激活和电化学表征。这些测试需要几个小时才能完成，而EOL制造的要求是在几分钟内完成EOL阶段。拟议的研究设想开发快速的EOL测试方法和诊断硬件，该方法可以在几分钟之内检测到电化学堆栈中的故障，从而解决了氢经济大规模生产的主要瓶颈之一。该项目将在西蒙·弗雷泽大学（SFU）燃料电池研究实验室（FCREL）和Greenlight Innovation Corp.（GI）之间建立新的大学行业研究合作伙伴关系，涵盖了所需的专业知识，设施和知识翻译，以产生变革性的结果和成果。具体而言，这种伙伴关系将将FCREL的庞大专业知识和研究工具与GI的工业领导力合并为电化学测试系统中最知名的全球领导者。