High quality and versatile fuel cell test station and research platform
	All regular test functions plus more
	Available for PEMFC, DMFC and SOFC
	System development platform with comprehensive system component options
	Educational demonstration system with teaching aide
	Plug-and-Play ready with user friendly control interface

Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd. (APFCT) was established in 2000. Its core technology is in the engineering and volume production of polymeric electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack and in their system applications. Power range is from 100 watt through 12 kilowatts. The primary areas of application have been in transportation and mobile devices. In addition, APFCT also has developed metal hydride based low-pressure hydrogen storage technology. APFCT also made significant progress in stations technologies for fuel cell testing and development. APFCT has applied its fuel cell expertise and years of experience in designing the FCED-P200 to fill the need for a multi-functional but economical fuel cell test station which is powerful enough for R&D and versatile enough for education demonstration.

FCED-P200 is a general purpose fuel cell research and test platform. It is the only platform designed for the multi-functions of fuel cell education and system development. To maximize its utility and value, the FCED-P200 has available a family of option modules to provide flexibility and specific requirements. APFCT is a pioneer and leader in fuel cell commercialization. The FCED-P200 reflects its many years of experience in fuel cell stack design and system integration. The unique features of FCED-P200 are being patented globally. Beyond the basic functions of fuel cell characterization, it provides a test platform for fuel cell system design and operations. Additionally, with the complementary experiment manual, it is a powerful teaching aide suitable for university level curriculum on fuel cell education.

Major Function Number 1:

Single cell and stack test station -- Basic fuel cell characteristics (V-I-P performance curve, Life test)

Main Characteristics:

Single cell and stack testing Direct Methanol Fuel Cell testing with DMFC optional module Configurable stack: Working 50 cm^2 configurable stack to demonstrate fuel cell principles and for component materials research. Labview control software: Versatile and user friendly Labview control software

Major Function Number 2:

Fuel Cell System Development PlatformDemonstrate the inter-relationships of all the fuel cell subsystem modules in system integration. A valuable tool for fuel cell system and subsystem developer and end-product applicators. This concept of system platform modularity can aid in subsystem interface specification, balance-of-plant subsystem development and system optimization analysis.

Main Characteristics:

Additional coolant heat exchanger Additional external cathode flow humidifier. Actual system humidity and temperature control simulation to analyze system limitations and optimum conditions Anode dead-end flow control enables monitor of hydrogen consumption rate to study fuel cell efficiency under different pressure, stack voltages and other operating conditions. This severe flow condition also can assist in design, test and optimization of fuel cell water management schemes. With the low-pressure metal hydride hydrogen supply module, test can be done on the fuel cell system "Energy Capacity" concept and to explore the subtleties of thermal exchange between fuel cell system and metal hydride hydrogen storage system.

Major Function Number 3:

Fuel cell educational platform with teaching aideThere is a lack of an integrated hardware/software teaching system for fuel cell education and experiment demonstration. The existing available educational fuel cell system hardware is limited to simple demonstration of basic principles and system concepts. There is also a lack of a well organized experimental manual to compliment the hardware to provide the student or researcher with a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of fuel cells. The FCED-P200 station, together with the teaching aide material is designed as the ideal educational platform to systematically and rigorously introduce the user to fuel cell principles and structures. Beyond the basics, the user can study the system component integration and operation requirements leading to a realistic and optimized system design.

Main Characteristics:

Understanding of fuel cell stack and system concept and structure Explore fuel cell stack and system operation requirements and conditions Study fuel cell system optimization