DuraFuelCell

In the ‘DuraFuelCell’ research initiative, twelve professors from seven faculties at Ohm University are investigating the service life and efficiency of hydrogen fuel cell technologies in stationary applications and heavy commercial vehicles in nine sub-projects using an interdisciplinary and networked research approach.

The project aims to answer the following research questions: 
1. Which molecular species can be observed under certain operating conditions and how does the electrocatalyst change its chemical state from an active to an inactive species? 
2. To what extent (i.e. chemical state) and under what conditions can deactivation be reversed, when does it become irreversible and why? 3. How do the deactivation steps proceed on the surface of a single membrane electrode assembly (MEA) and in the various cells of a fuel cell stack?