Friday, March 22nd, 2024
Material, Operating strategy and REliability optimisation for LIFEtime improvements in heavy duty truck
MORELife will demonstrate improvements of materials and operating strategies to enhance the durability and reliability of fuel cells stacks in heavy duty truck application.
Degradation issues based on real life application data will be identified.
With these key degradation issues identified, highly specific accelerated stress tests (ASTs) for a shortened test duration for lifetime verification as well as advanced degradation models will be developed.
The project will reach ambitious goals of power density > 1.2 W/cm² at 0.675 V/cell and PGM loading ≤0.3 g/kW, while achieving system durability of 30,000 h of operation with <10 % performance loss.
Technical Innovation
MORELife will demonstrate improvements of materials and operating strategies to enhance the durability and reliability of fuel cells stacks in heavy duty truck application.
Degradation issues based on real life application data will be identified.
With these key degradation issues identified, highly specific accelerated stress tests (ASTs) for a shortened test duration for lifetime verification as well as advanced degradation models will be developed.
The project will reach ambitious goals of power density > 1.2 W/cm² at 0.675 V/cell and PGM loading ≤0.3 g/kW, while achieving system durability of 30,000 h of operation with <10 % performance loss.
After validation of the operating conditions based on the improved materials the results will be fed back into the models to validate the improvements compared to state of-the-art materials and prove a predicted lifetime of 30,000 h.
Activities within the project are divided into one management and four technical work packages. Tasks in technical WPs will take place in parallel. The project is divided into three phases: the initial phase focuses on gaining understanding of degradation modes in heavy duty applications. Therefore, an innovative multi-scale and multi-domain modelling framework for virtual MEA analysis is going to be built up. The second phase will focus on advancing and improving MEA materials. In the third phase those models and material improvements will be validated on the fuel cell test rig.
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 | MORELife has received funding from the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101007170.Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or CINEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. |