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Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC)

This project has been one of the finest achievements of my engineering career. It also earned me an MS degree. Right out of college with a fresh Chemical Engineering degree in my hands I started working at EAE Elektrik as the lead R&D Engineer in a project to build a PEMFC from "scratch". I put all the process design knowledge I had into practice; pumps, heat exchanger, humidifiers, process control unit, piping and instrumentation diagram, material selection... you name it. All chemical enginering fundamentals were put to work to design the fuel cell. It was also a great industry/university collaboration. When we had finished it back in 2003, it would be the first fully operational Proton Exchange Membrane Fuell Cell built "in Turkey". I also manufactured several membrane-electrod assemblies and tested them for my MS thesis. Browse through the pictures from those days to see what I have achieved.



Gasket and bipolar flow plates Putting the gasket on bipolar flow plates Membrane-electrode assembly Placing the membrane-electrode assembly on bipolar flow plates
Fuel cell stack Fuel cell stack Pumps, heat exchanger, humidifer etc... it starts taking shape Enjoying the almost finished prototype
Enjoying the almost finished prototype Finished 1.5 kW PEMFC prototype Finished 1.5 kW PEMFC prototype Finished 1.5 kW PEMFC prototype