The fuel cell testing and standardisation network

General Information

The main objective of the FCTESTNET is to create a network of research and industrial organisations involved in development and testing of FC and FC systems. This network will produce proposals for harmonisation of test procedures at the level of FC systems down to stacks and cells. Such harmonisation is necessary to enable objective comparison of R&D results and evaluation of technological progress. It will be a valuable input for international standardisation bodies working in FC technology.The consortium brings together 55 partners from well-known European research centres, Universities, research departments of the Industry and Small and Medium Enterprises working in the FC field.The strength of this project is in the combination of a top-down approach, starting from an analysis of various FC applications, with a bottom-up approach, starting from an inventory of existing test methodologies at the stack, cell and component level. These two approaches will result in an integrated framework of testing procedures, in which testing methods for FC systems, stacks and cells for different application areas are based on common, harmonised methodology.

EU-Programme Acronym and Subprogramme Area	FP5-EESD (Energy): Medium to long term target actions: (G) Fuel cells and hydrogen technologies
Project Type	Thematic Network
Contract Number	ENG2-CT-2002-20657
Co-ordinator	Verein Deutscher Ingenieure e.V. (DE)

Total Eligible Costs (€)	Hereon Eligible Costs (€)	EC Funding for Hereon (€)
2.214.805	41.900

Contact Person at Hereon

Dr. Thomas Klassen, Institute for Materials Research, WTP

Participants

Catella Generics AG (ES), Commissariat Energie Atomique CEA (FR), Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (NL), Ente Per Le Nuove Tecnologie, L'Energia e L'Ambiente (IT), European Commission (BE), FEV Motorentechnik GmbH (DE), Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (DE), Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (NL), Verein Deutscher Ingenieure e.V. (DE), Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung (DE)

Last Update: 16. April 2021