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Article: Faster, Cheaper Fuel Cells: New $1.6 Million DoE Grant Supports Fuel Cell Manufacturing Innovations
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- March 24, 2009
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute issued the following news release:
The multi-year grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy, aims to create new technology and processes for faster, more cost-effective manufacturing of fuel cell membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs). Comprised of a stacked proton exchange membrane (PEM), catalyst, and electrodes, MEAs are the heart and soul of a fuel cell.
"The new system we plan to develop is essentially a high-speed, high-quality assembly process for fuel cell MEAs," said Ray Puffer, principle investigator of the project and program director for industrial automation at Rensselaer's Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS). "If ...