Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has a research project under way with the goal of developing a robotic assembly process for fuel cell stacks for PEM fuel cells:
“Many of the materials in PEM stacks are thin, flexible, soaked in corrosive acids, or highly sensitive to changes in humidity and temperature,” Puffer says. “This makes material handling orders of magnitude more difficult than methods used for simple flexible materials such as paper.” The researchers will use existing automated methods to gain a deeper understanding of how PEM stack materials respond to various handling techniques, while also researching new ways to sense material properties throughout the process.
source: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
