Education

In universities and engineering schools, fuel cells are the subject of ever increasing interest. This subject is often taught in a theoretical manner only, without any practical work on real life objects.

HELION offers a highly instrumented and autonomous educational test system, accompanied by a pedagogical package and a simulator that allows practical work under optimal safety and teaching conditions.

PRACTICAL TEACHING ON PEM FUEL CELLS

Relying on its expertise in the design of test benches for its own requirements, HELION has developed in partnership with universities and engineering schools, an educational test bench that offers the best compromise between safety, students autonomy and pertinence of results.

The educational test bench employs a PEM type fuel cell supplied with hydrogen and air and has a power of 1 kWe. It is designed to operate without specific equipment in the operating premises, and provides a practical work autonomy of around 4 hours.

This practical work permits a better understanding of the physical phenomena in play such as temperatures, flow rates, pressures, stoechiometry… via the didactic package that includes an instrumented bench, professional analysis and simulation tools and forward compatible pedagogy.

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