Thorsten Notthoff (pictured front), research assistant and expert in fuel cell operation, explains to his colleagues: “With the new test bench, we can carry out temperature-dynamic tests between -35 and +90 °C and take a very close look at the effects on bipolar plates, MEAs and GDLs, for example. And not just on a small scale: we can install quite substantial short stacks here.‘
Jörg Karstedt, Head of the Fuel Cells and Stacks Department, is delighted with the launch of the test bench: ’In the cold chamber, we can now investigate the cold start behaviour of fuel cell stacks or simulate the operating conditions for fuel cells in aviation, among other things.”
