Despite their environmental and social benefits, fuel cells have not been incorporated into consumer products. Their performance and failure modes have not been translated into industrial and commercial standards, quality control protocols, and safety regulations.

Our research in this area includes work on: accelerated testing and component degradation, failure diagnosis, humidifier design, and material properties (e.g., membranes and electrodes).

Under a collaborative NRC-UBC agreement, we have investigated refueling systems for fuel cell vehicles. This research has modeled and measured the effects of the refueling conditions on the temperature distribution within a compressed hydrogen cylinder. The motivation was to identify the optimal sensor location(s) to enable fuel metering via temperature and pressure measurements only.

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