In the fuel cell market, many companies are competing, and it is a “winner take all” environment. You need to be first to market and do it right. If not, there could be repercussions for your brand. Material selection will have a strong influence on first-time right by improving lifetime, efficiency and safety.
Fuel cell systems need to use materials that are pure. If not, ion leaching and hydrolytic and heat aging can occur. These two failure modes and the risks and consequences can hurt your brand image. Impure materials increase the risk of ion leaching, and higher water absorbing materials show more ion leaching, which you do not want. Also, impure materials increase the risk of hydrolytic and heat ageing— PA9T and PA66 are not good performers.
Main ion leaching source is the breakage of interface between the GF and polymer matrix. Material cation ion leaching is strongly related to material water up-taking. GF enforced material has more leaching than material itself.
Material ions leaching relative indication
Higher water absorbing materials tend to show more ion leaching
Hydrolytic and heating aging modulus
DSM’s tailor-made PPS is the purest material solution on the market today and offers the best in performance in fuel cells available today.
Today, Xytron PPS is trusted by industry-leading manufacturers and Tier1s worldwide. Xytron PPS offers the lowest ion leaching and best strength and toughness retention in hydrolytic environment to ensure fuel cell systems are efficient, have a long life, and are safe and reliable. At DSM, we are constantly evolving our material solutions to meet the demand for fuel cell applications.
During this 60-minute Talk, find out the latest insights about hydrogen fuel cell technology, and its advantages over lithium ion batteries (LiBs), plus what are the best materials solutions for these hydrogen fuel cell systems and components.
Hydrogen will first play a major role in the heavier and long-range transportation segments—buses, vans, and medium to large cars (in fleets and taxis) because they are heavier vehicles and have longer range distances driven. DSM has been on the forefront of hydrogen fuel cell technology—we have already done extensive research on and development of hydrogen storage tanks and fuel cell components.
When people think electric vehicles, they immediately think of batteries. Learn about how hydrogen fuel cells can power the cars of the future.
Most often when we think of electric vehicles, we think of them being powered by lithium ion batteries, but if it’s the most environmental friendly solution? Maybe not. As an alternative, automobiles can be powered by fuel cell technology.
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