Fuel cells are one of the most promising new forms of energy generation. The technology is clean, quiet and efficient but there are hundreds of components, or layers, in a commercial-scale fuel cell stack and the number of stacks needed to generate sufficient power make it almost impossible to manually assemble them at speed and at a competitive cost.
Cambridgeshire-based GB Innomech (Innomech) has designed and recently completed the world’s first automated manufacturing system for alkaline fuel cells for industrial power generation: the system can assemble many thousands of layers per day. The new assembly equipment has been developed for AFC Energy as part of its EU-backed POWER-UP consortium to develop and install industrial…
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