(Invited) Fuel Cells for Heavy Duty Vehicles

The commercialization of fuel cell products for a variety of applications including forklifts, buses, cars and heavy duty trucks is well underway. Particularly in the heavy duty fuel cell market, recent studies suggest that in Europe, fuel cell electric buses (FCEB) total cost of ownership (TCO) wil...

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Veröffentlicht in:Meeting abstracts (Electrochemical Society) 2020-11, Vol.MA2020-02 (34), p.2179-2179
Hauptverfasser: Bellerive, Julie, Hu, Jingwei, Dutta, Monica, Knights, Shanna D, Bach, Peter
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Zusammenfassung:The commercialization of fuel cell products for a variety of applications including forklifts, buses, cars and heavy duty trucks is well underway. Particularly in the heavy duty fuel cell market, recent studies suggest that in Europe, fuel cell electric buses (FCEB) total cost of ownership (TCO) will breakeven with battery electric buses (BEB) by 2023, and with internal combustion engine buses (ICEB) by 2024 1 . For applications such as long-distance and heavy-duty transportation, the hydrogen route appears the decarbonisation option of choice, and can become cost competitive with internal combustion engines by 2030 2 . Over the past 30 years, Ballard has developed a wide array of technology “building blocks” for Fuel Cell stacks components. The application requirements (duty cycle, speed, vehicle weight, lifetime and environmental exposure) will determine the key stack features and result in customization of components where economically viable. In contrast with fuel cell stacks developed for passenger cars, Fuel Cells for heavy duty vehicles are particularly challenged by high durability requirements 3 , with MEA attributes such as catalyst loading and peak efficiency point significantly affecting stack and fuel costs. Building on proven and demonstrated stack durability in the field of more than 35,000 hours in heavy duty vehicles 4 Ballard’s MEA development activities draw from extensive field experience to support step changes in durability with each subsequent product iteration. The use of an accelerated testing and modeling approach developed and validated over numerous product iterations enables continuous cost decreases and gains in power density, operational robustness and reliability, with a calculated risk tolerance for new technology introduction. Those MEA durability prediction models along with a good understanding of failure mechanisms are a cornerstone to developing the next generation of Fuel Cells for heavy duty vehicles. Of particular importance is the use of the voltage degradation model to evaluate the time to reach the degradation target for heavy duty applications (USDOE Ultimate target of 10% degradation at 30,000 hours 5 ). Simulation results as a function of the electrode composition show the relationship between cathode catalyst loading and lifetime, and assist in making electrode design and composition choices for a successfully durable product. A sharp increase in voltage loss is observed when local oxygen transport resistance
ISSN:2151-2043
2151-2035
DOI:10.1149/MA2020-02342179mtgabs