Instructor
This unique demonstration and training module was designed especially for universities and vocational schools in order to explain fuel cell technology more clearly and more tangibly.
The Instructor is a complete 50 Watt fuel cell system (PEM technology). Students and trainees can put the components into operation step by step, so that they can explore in more detail how a fuel cell system works as their knowledge increases.
The learning curve therefore rises continuously. This facilitates the introduction to the technology, allowing you to hold the attention of your audience with the increasing complexity of the subject matter and to offer new, exciting and more complex experiments from the world of fuel cell technology even after extended use of the Instructor.
You can use the Instructor both for experimental demonstrations, e.g., during lectures, and for experimenting in practicals. Included in the package is an extensive experiment manual and a software package for recording data.
The Instructor teaches the basic principles and the application knowledge on the subject of fuel cells: structure and functioning principle of a fuel cell, thermodynamics, characteristic curves and efficiencies, systems and power electronics.
Areas of Application
The Instructor is excellent for teaching basic knowledge and system competence for technical subjects and occupations, e. g., electrical engineering, energy engineering, process engineering, mechanical engineering and automotive engineering.
The product is also an excellent module for use in any "Alternative Energies" course or practicum.
The product has a modular design. Various equipment options are available. For the available versions, please refer to the product data sheet:
- <//a> Includes a 50 W fuel cell stack with a fuel cell controller, hydrogen flow meter, air supply, LED displays for all essential system parameters (current, voltage, temperature, fuel and air supply).Fuel Cell Module FC 50:
- Electronic Load Module EL 200: For manual or computer-assisted adjustment of constant rated currents for the fuel cell for recording characteristic curves.
- Connecting Set for Compressed Gas Cylinders: Pressure reducer with connecting hose for standard compressed gas cylinders.
- Instructor manual: Experiment manual with well-prepared practical experiments
- CD-ROM Learning Module: CD with background information on fuel cells (in German only)
- Textbook "Fuel Cell Systems Explained": Classic textbook on fuel cell technology (in English only)
- Frame for holding experiment panels and cable set with all connecting cables
Optional:
- DC Converter VC 100: Enables set-up of Instructor with autonomous power supply with simultaneous supply of 12 V consumers.
- Traffic Light Circuit TL 10: LED traffic light as a sample 12 V consumer.
- Metal Hydride Storage Canisters with Charging Set: Innovative metal hydride storage canisters, also on an experiment panel, enable convenient operation for an entire practicum day without a lab gas cylinder. Includes charging set for refilling from standard compressed gas cylinders.
- Hydrogen Generator with Metal Hydride Storage Canister: The most convenient method for supplying the Instructor with hydrogen. An electrolyzer is used instead of the lab gas cylinder for filling the metal hydride storage canisters.
- Fully equipped fuel cell system for teaching basic and advanced principles
- Truly unique training product
- Detailed supplementary material including basic principles, experiment manual and software
- Stringent quality standards: robust design and high safety standard
- Easy set-up and operation
- Versatile, suitable for both lectures and practicums
- Introduction to the operation of a fuel cell system
- Characteristic curve and output curve of the fuel cell
- Dependence of output on air supply and temperature
- Hydrogen-current characteristic curve of the fuel cell
- Efficiency of the fuel cell stack
- Set-up and operation of an autonomous power supply with a fuel cell
- Efficiency of the fuel cell system
- Sample application of independent power supply: How long can a fuel cell supply an autonomous consumer
- Sample application for fuel cell car: Determination of the fuel consumption based on the load profile
Client Testimonial
"The Instructor is the best educational system that I have seen on the market in terms of quality and reliability. I recommend this product to any institution or school that is looking for a fuel cell learning tool as it covers hydrogen supply, electrical generation through fuel cells and application of the electricity generated."
Denis Cote, Instructor/Fuel Cell Coordinator, NAIT, Canada
"The documentation and the operation of the modules is very transparent and logical. The students quickly understand the system and can work with it independently. We are very satisfied with the Instructor."
Prof. Jewgenii Terukov, St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University, Russia
