HYTRAN
Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies for road transport
HYTRAN focuses on hydrogen and fuel cells technologies for road transport and the scope of the project is to advance the fuel cell technology towards solutions that are commercially viable. As a background, it has to be noticed that components and sub-systems are considered as major bottlenecks for fuel cell based vehicle systems. HyTRAN is therefore largely focused on the development of the necessary components and sub-systems to make them meet the actual requirements derived from the two applications.
This goal will be achieved by the development of two specific fuel cell systems or Technological Platforms (TPs):
- TP1 "POWERTRAIN": development of a system for traction power by an 80 kW direct hydrogen PEM fuel cell system implemented on a passenger car.
- TP2 "APU": development of 5 kW Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) for both light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles, including microstructured diesel oil steam reformer, clean-up reactors, an innovative reformate hydrogen stack and balance of plant components.
Contact: Dr. Gunther Kolb, Head of Energy Technology and Catalysis Department,
Phone: +49 6131/990 341
