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Our new project has started! Together with 6 project partners, we are researching the fuel cell production of the future. The i-skaB project (innovative, scalable fuel cell production) is funded by the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport Affairs (BMDV). The project sponsor is Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH.
Revolutionizing the production of fuel cells – seven partners from research and industry want to achieve no less in the joint project i-skaB. The common goal is innovative, scalable fuel cell production (i-skaB) and stack production in 30-second cycles. The project started at the beginning of the year and is funded by the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport.
As part of i-skaB, fuel cell production processes are to be further developed in such a way that production, which is still largely manual today, can become fully automated. The aim is to increase annual production by a factor of 20: from up to 25,000 today to over 500,000 fuel cells per year on one line in the medium term. The degree of automation in production lines for fuel cells and their central components such as bipolar plates (BPP) and membrane electrode assemblies (MEA) is still very low. Currently, a production line has such short cycle times that it can only produce a few fuel cell stacks per day.
Read more: Further information on the project and the project partners can be found here.
