Final CRADA Report for Small Business Voucher (SBV) Pilot Project with TreadStone Technologies, Inc. ? Novel Coating for Fuel Cell Metal Bipolar Plates [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 621.3 Electrical, magnetic, optical, communications, computer engineering; electronics, lighting
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: 13 p. : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 256324
• Chủ đề: 1. 30 direct energy conversion; 2. 36 materials science

Tóm tắt

 Light-weight metal is the preferred material for bipolar plate in the automotive proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack. The challenge using metal bipolar plates is the high surface electrical contact resistance and the poor corrosion resistance in PEM fuel cell operation conditions. This SBV project involved specialized capabilities and expertise at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) supporting TreadStone Technologies, Inc. and included <
 em>
 ex-situ<
 /em>
  and <
 em>
 in-situ<
 /em>
  drive-cycle tests that incorporated coated metallic bipolar plates (LANL tasks) and analysis of the surface chemistry and microstructure of coatings on stainless steel substrates (ORNL tasks).