2011 Annual Progress Report

VI. Manufacturing R&D

This section of the 2011 Progress Report for the DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program focuses on manufacturing R&D. Each technical report is available as an individual Adobe Acrobat PDF.

Manufacturing R&D Sub-Program Overview, Nancy Garland, DOE

  1. Fuel Cell Membrane Electrode Assembly Manufacturing R&D, Michael Ulsh, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  2. Reduction in Fabrication Costs of Gas Diffusion Layers, Jason Morgan, Ballard Material Products, Inc.
  3. Modular, High-Volume Fuel Cell Leak-Test Suite and Process, Ru Chen, UltraCell Corporation
  4. Manufacturing of Low-Cost, Durable Membrane Electrode Assemblies Engineered for Rapid Conditioning, Colin Busby, W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
  5. Adaptive Process Controls and Ultrasonics for High-Temperature PEM MEA Manufacture, Dan Walczyk, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  6. Cause-and-Effect: Flow Field Plate Manufacturing Variability and its Impact on Performance, Eric Stanfield, National Institute of Standards and Technology
  7. High Speed, Low Cost Fabrication of Gas Diffusion Electrodes for Membrane Electrode Assemblies, Emory De Castro, BASF Fuel Cell, Inc.
  8. MEA Manufacturing R&D Using Drop-On-Demand Technology, Peter Rieke, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  9. Development of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies for Low Cost Hydrogen Storage Vessels, Mark Leavitt, Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc.
  10. Non-Contact Sensor Evaluation for Bipolar Plate Manufacturing Process Control and Smart Assembly of Fuel Cell Stacks, Eric Stanfield, National Institute of Standards and Technology
  11. Optical Scatterfield Metrology for Online Catalyst Coating Inspection of PEM (Fuel Cell) Soft Goods, Eric Stanfield, National Institute of Standards and Technology