Construction of a direct methanol fuel cell stack

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: JOUE0074

Project closed

Start date 1 September 1991

End date 31 May 1993

Funded under

• Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of energy - non-nuclear energies and rational use of energy - (JOULE), 1989-1992

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

Siemens AG
Germany

Objective

Construction and test of a direct acidic methanol 100 KW fuel cell stack with the following characteristics :

cell voltage = 0.4 V
current density = 0.1 A/cm2
voltage drop 0.1 V
anode potential = 0.35 V
cathode potential = 0.85 V
electrolyte temperature = 60 C

Electrochemical measurements and long-operation testing (100 hours).

Three phases :

1. Preparation and tests of catalysts and electrodes (Pt-Ru anode and Pt, PtAu or preferably active carbon cathode) and tests of two types of methanol fuel cells concepts : solid polymer electrolyte or matrix (SIEMENS, INNOVISION).

2. Construction and performance of single cells to define the system for the stack (SIEMENS).

3. Construction of a small 10 Watt 5-cell stack for the reproducibility of cell production and cooling plate & sealing procedure testing. Definition of current-voltage characteristics for 100 kW stack (SIEMENS, INNOVISION).

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.

• natural sciences › chemical sciences › polymer sciences
• natural sciences › chemical sciences › organic chemistry › alcohols
• natural sciences › chemical sciences › catalysis
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › energy and fuels › fuel cells

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Programme(s)

• FP2-JOULE 1 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of energy - non-nuclear energies and rational use of energy - (JOULE), 1989-1992

Topic(s)

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Call for proposal

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Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Siemens AG

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Werner-von-Siemens-Straße 50 ; 91052 Erlangen ; Germany
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

Innovision A/S

Denmark

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 75,Lindvedvej ; 5260 Odense S
• Total cost: No data