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Cost-efficient and reach-compliant surface treatment of bipolar plates

In fuel cells, stacks of several hundred bipolar plates are combined in membrane electrode assemblies, in which the electrochemical reactions take place. As a result, it must be possible to produce the bipolar plates cost-efficiently. In addition, the corrosion resistance in the surrounding medium and the electrical conductivity have to be sufficiently high. As stainless steels show passivation over time, more expensive materials, like graphite or noble-metal coatings, are used. This paper describes an alternative coating, which can fulfil the above-mentioned requirements. Using electroplating, Cr coatings with thicknesses > 20 µm can be deposited at low costs and REACH compliant. Subsequently, the Cr layers are gas nitrided resulting in a dense Cr-N coating with electrical and corrosion properties exceeding the ones of common stainless steels. Using this new approach, well-performing fuel cells could be produced cost-efficiently.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:36249
Date25 November 2019
CreatorsScharf, Ingolf, Müller, Markus, Höhlich, Dominik, Mehner, Thomas, Holländer, Ulrich, Maier, Hans Jürgen, Lampke, Thomas
ContributorsTechnische Universität Chemnitz
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion, doc-type:conferenceObject, info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject, doc-type:Text
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relationurn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa2-357204, qucosa:35720

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