While more and more automobile giants joined the electric vehicle competition, the supply chain start to mature, and the costs are reduced. However, the range extension is still one of the main concerns on lithium ion battery based EVs, especially for heavy duty vehicles, maritime application, and even electric planes. With the expansion of the power consumption and operation duration, hydrogen fuel cell gains advantage with its significant higher power density and energy density.
The high cost due to emerging supply chain and the lack of infrastructure are the main barriers for FCV. Stakeholders have started to stockpile technology know-how and intellectual property for the upcoming thrive of hydrogen economies.
In one of our consultancy projects, we provided micro-scale and stack-scale PEMFC simulation with integration of kinetics, heat and mass transfer, fluid field models. The models are used for cell performance evaluation, sensitivity study, and parametric scanning of different cell designs.
In the micro-scale, state-of-the-art material development in the academia has been scanned. Catalyst performance and integrated cell kinetics are evaluated in the simulation as well as laboratory button-cell/stack test. In the stack level, simulation is primarily used to reduce the risks of heavy investment. Advices on the manufacturing process of cell components are provided for the scale up of the cell mass production.
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