The open fuel cell was presented at the Maker day 2023 at the public library in Duisburg. Many crafters showed interest in our open fuel cell. The visitors were able to see that the open fuel cell is able to produce electricity – and even more if they use a […]
Yearly Archives: 2023
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Is the open fuel cell just meant to be a nice to have item used for some basic educational applications? By far: NO! On the 13th and 14th September 2023 our little open fuel cell had its debut on the hy-fcell exhibition in Stuttgart. This exhibition is one of the […]
What is it for: 3D printing technology has become a significant fabrication technology for the fabrication of prototypes as well as small series production during the recent years. Compared to other technologies such as milling processes the needed material is only deposited where it is needed. Under ideal conditions items […]
Today is the first Open Fuel Cell Meeting after I started working at ZBT. So I was able to pick up Leander and Frauke from the entrance and lead them to Burghard’s office. Today is the day on which we want to test a first OFC assembly for tightness. There […]
Livia and Roland are on vacation; so there is only a small Open Fuel Cell team meeting. We meet at the Chair of Energy Technology. Leander reports about the experiences he made when he tried to print more end plates using SLA. He had problems with the threads, which were […]
We meet again at May 9, this time at the NanoEnergieTechnikZentrum, NETZ. Leander is back from his holidays and amazingly added lots of CAD files to the website. Roland brought a package that was shipped to my name but it contained nothing related to the Open Fuel Cell but Merch […]
After a few weeks break, the open fuel cell team meets again. This time at the Chair of Manufacturing Engineering. Open Fuel Cells travel to Mannheim Burghard immediately starts to report: Alexandra and himself sent the fuel cell which we assembled in a previous meeting, together with another fuel cell […]
The Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) is the central component of every PEMFC and has to fulfill a variety of different requirements. As a mechanical barrier it has to prevent the hydrogen and air/oxygen on the anode and cathode side respectively from mixing with each other and thereby generating an explosive […]
This post will help you understand why you’d need flow fields and how to make them yourself from off-the-shelf printed circuit boards (PCBs). Table of Contents Why PCBs? Current collector and gas distribution In a PEMFC, the flow field plates generally fulfil two different purposes. One is to conduct the […]
Learn more about the 3D printed end plates.