Plug offers fuel cells for back-up power

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 155 KB
• Volume: 2002
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-2859
• DOI: 10.1016/s1464-2859(02)11024-8

✦ Synopsis

cell products, following the signing of a strategic supply agreement for reduced and competitive product costs. The agreement calls for 3M to provide Avista Labs with all of its requirements for commercial MEAs to the end of June 2004.

3M will supply MEAs for use in Avista Labs' 250 and 650 series fuel cell cartridges, integral components in the company's Independence™ product line. Avista Labs cartridges are standard electrical building blocks necessary to assemble reliable, air-cooled products for power needs in applications ranging from 50 We to 5 kWe.

3M has been involved in fuel cell programs since 1994. The company has expertise in developing customized components for fuel cell technologies including membranes, catalysts, gas diffusion layers, seals and gaskets. It also has in place automated assembly equipment to massproduce high-quality products.