Thanks to our modular system design, we can offer you flexible and customizable test units for electrolysis and fuel cells that match your specific needs. Our parallelized systems guarantee identical conditions for electrocatalyst and cell component testing. They also enable fast, comparable, and reproducible results thanks to the use of a single common infrastructure.
The research field of electrolysis and fuel cells holds massive innovation potential. However, a broad range of parameters have to be tested for the development of new electrocatalytic processes. In addition to the process parameters typically encountered in heterogeneous catalysis, such as pressure, temperature, feed composition, and volume flow, new parameters like current surface load, applied potential difference, surface resistances, or diffusion resistances in membranes are emerging, some of which are more difficult to control.
At hte, we help research and development teams to handle this complexity and find answers to their questions more quickly. Our high throughput systems can operate up to 16 electrochemical cells in parallel. In contrast to serial test systems, they can therefore guarantee identical conditions and produce larger amounts of data. Thanks to our various lab systems and modular system design, we can offer you flexible and customizable test systems for electrolysis and fuel cells that match your specific needs.
A high throughput system offers the highest possible comparability of test results, as it uses a common feed supply and measurement infrastructure for all cells.
Specifications: Electrode surface area up to 20 cm2, current load up to 20 A per cell, full-scope analytics (cyclic voltametry), potential curves, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy.
A bench-scale system represents upscaling of a high-throughput system. Larger electrode surfaces (up to 25 cm2) can be used here, and cells can be supplied individually with gases or electrolytes (single-cell test system)
Specifications: Electrode area up to 25 cm2, current load up to 150 A per cell, analysis includes CV, potential curves up to 150 A, and EIS up to 20 A.
The stack tester represents a special application of a bench scale system, in which the individual supply lines are connected to test a single stack.
Specifications: The current load can be more than 150 A, the analytics include CV, potential curves with more than 150 A, and EIS up to 20 A.
At hte, we are the world’s leading solution provider of lab-scale R&D workflows. We also have extensive application know-how in the field of high-throughput research. We have applied this knowledge and our technology platform for heterogeneous catalysis to electrocatalyst testing:
Our methodology of parallelization, digitalization, and automation facilitates faster evaluation of material activity and stability under real-world application conditions, including accelerated aging protocols.
Our customers rely on our test systems for electrolysis and fuel cells to provide them with comparable and reproducible data under identical conditions.
