Fuel Cell Test

For research, development, or manufacturing of fuel cells, you need test tools to evaluate and validate fuel cell technology. Test systems must provide flexible data acquisition, monitoring, and control to precisely handle fuel cell operation and experiments. As you constantly incorporate new measurements into your tests, you need reliable, accurate, and flexible test systems to help shorten development cycles, increase quality, and lower costs for all stages of fuel cell development, from research and design validation to manufacturing and manufacturing test.

Benefits of NI's Fuel Cell Test Approach

• Faster and more accurate measurement and control
• Shorter development cycles, faster time-to-market using LabVIEW
• Open and flexible approach, scalable to future systems
• Increase test throughput while lowering your cost to test

Bring your products to market much more quickly using National Instruments software and hardware to automate your fuel cell tests, while simultaneously creating a production test platform that scales to your changing test needs and has a long lifetime. Whether your challenge is testing fuel cell stacks, reformers, or the entire fuel cell system, the NI fuel cell test solution can automate the test for you, reducing both your cost and development time.

• Build a system
• Buy a system
• Find an integrator

Build a System with NI Tools

See how you can use NI products to configure a fuel cell test system

• Fuel Cell Testing - The NI Way -- This tutorial provides an overview of different types of fuel cell technology, and how NI can help solve fuel cell test measurement and automation challenges.
• Download Fuel Cell Testing Article -- Automotive Engineering Int'l, March 2001. This article discusses the need for test capabilities that deliver reliable monitoring and control and the benefits of a flexible configuration. Scientists can tailor test systems that keep up with fuel cell development.
• Download Advanced Measurements Fuel Cell Test LabVIEW Demo -- Advanced Measurements, a National Instruments Select Integrator, has developed a LabVIEW demo for Fuel Cell Stack Testing. Advanced Measurements has also developed fully customizable test systems for the development, validation, and testing of fuel cell stacks and systems.

Find a System Integrator

If you have time constraints and limited internal resources, we have the answer for you! Our chosen Fuel Cell Solution partners have the consulting expertise and ability to provide the ideal solution for your application.

Americas

• AMI
• Bloomy
• Viewpoint Systems

Europe

• MeasX
• EUtech

Eurasia

• H₂ ECOnomy

Buy a Turnkey System

Speed your time-to-market by purchasing a complete, pre-built system from a National Instruments partner.

• Advanced Measurements, Inc.
• Download brochure on Advanced Measurements Fuel Cell Test System — Advanced Measurements, a National Instruments Select Alliance Partner, has developed a system for Fuel Cell Stack Testing. Advanced Measurements has also developed fully customizable test systems for the development, validation, and testing of fuel cell stacks and systems.