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 […]
Meetings
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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 […]
We thought this would be easy: milling the conductor plates according to Burghard’s design to produce the flowfield and the open electrode. We gave a set of milling cutters to Frauke from the FabLab and were excited to receive the cut parts within the next few days. Instead, we received […]
Amazingly, our group is growing and so is our determination to bring the open fuel cell to the world. We are thus very happy that it did not need an awful lot of advertisement for people to express their interest if the OFC. Lotay Tshering (prime minister of Bhutan), Peter […]
So we’ve printed the pressure plates on the SLA printer at the Chair for Energy Technology. The next step will be somewhat more difficult: milling the conductor plates, i.e. the flowfield and open electrode. For this, Leander reached out to his friend Livia who joined us today for our OFC […]
Today, we met at the Chair of Energy Technology and showed Roland and Burghard the printed pressure plates. For the next hour we discussed the website structure and distributed the content creation responsibilities between us.
The morning after our last meeting, Leander started the SLA printing job for the first pressure plate. He invited me to come to the institute early afternoon when the print is finished. The plate looks really nice. However, we struggle to get it off the print bed. Leander tries with […]