WO2022101351A2 - Herstellungsverfahren für komponenten eines brennstoffzellenstapel - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a manufacturing method for components of a fuel cell stack according to the type defined in more detail in the preamble of claim 1.
- the invention also relates to a manufacturing method for bipolar plates for a fuel cell stack.
- thermosets provided with electrically conductive fillers are hot-pressed in a relatively lengthy process of 30 to 90 seconds.
- cold pressing can also be used to produce such components based on thermoplastics.
- This has the disadvantage of a significantly lower strength.
- other methods such as rotary embossing of sheet mold compounds are also possible, but this requires relatively high wall thicknesses, which ultimately lead to a low energy density in the fuel cell stack produced in this way, and which are very limited in terms of geometric shape.
- other plastics such as paint or similar can be used. These are then often arranged on carrier foils made of another plastic.
- EP 2 801 121 B1 for further prior art.
- a method for producing a flow field plate made of graphite and resin is described there, in which such a mixture is melted. For this will the mixture is extruded accordingly and introduced into a mold with a large number of flow fields, which are then divided into individual plates.
- the mold is a shaping tool for generating the desired structures of the flow fields in a bipolar plate provided with them for a fuel cell stack.
- the melting of the material and the subsequent curing in a mold is also relatively complex and time-consuming. When curing in the mold, it is also almost impossible to avoid unwanted deviations in shape due to shrinkage processes in the material filled in as a liquid, which makes relatively large material thicknesses necessary, particularly in the direction of stacking, in order to ensure the functionality of the flow field.
- the object of the present invention is now to specify an energy- and time-efficient production method for components and/or bipolar plates of a fuel cell stack from a mixture of at least one plastic and at least one electrically conductive filler.
- this object is achieved by a manufacturing method for components of a fuel cell stack according to claim 1.
- Advantageous refinements and developments of this variant of the production method result from the dependent subclaims.
- the object is also achieved by a manufacturing method for bipolar plates according to claim 8.
- a particularly favorable and advantageous further development results from the dependent claim.
- Favorable configurations and developments, which can be used for both production methods, are specified in the further dependent subclaims 10 to 12 for both production methods.
- the manufacturing method according to the invention for components of a fuel cell stack uses a double band press, similar to the method in the above-mentioned prior art. Instead of just producing a web-shaped blank, as there, a web-shaped uncured or not yet fully cured blank is fed from the mixture to an isochoric double-belt press with individual segments in the production method according to the invention.
- Each of the individual segments of this special type of double belt press has a shaping structure for shaping the blank as it passes through the double belt press.
- the individual segments on the two bands of the Double belt presses lock themselves during the pressing process via corresponding locking elements and are thus positioned to each other reliably and with repeat accuracy during pressing.
- the components are produced in the corresponding isochoric double belt presses until they are finally cured. This allows a continuous manufacturing process, which can deliver large quantities of components in a short time. Process times of well under 0.5 seconds per component are possible.
- the components can be provided with a structure introduced by the individual segments both on one side and—preferably—on both sides.
- the individual segments can be mounted interchangeably in the double belt press in order to be able to react easily and quickly to different requirements or changes in the geometry of the components, in particular the halves of bipolar plates.
- At least one of the individual segments can have a shape-giving structure that differs from the shape-giving structure of the other individual segments.
- the double belt press with the individual segments can preferably be designed to be relatively large.
- such a double-belt press can be used, for example, to produce the cathode-side halves of the bipolar plates and another double-belt press arranged adjacent used to manufacture the anode-side halves of the bipolar plates. If a fuel cell stack or stack constructed from these bipolar plates is formed, for example, with a total number of 250 to 300 individual cells, a corresponding number of individual segments can produce all the required halves of bipolar plates in a single run or circulation of the strips.
- one of the individual segments is designed in such a way that instead of a half-shell for a bipolar plate, it forms a half-shell for an interface plate, i.e. the plate that closes off the fuel cell stack, then a set of bipolar plates and interface plates for an entire fuel cell stack can be easily and efficiently combined into one Make circulation of two such double belt presses. Subsequent sorting and/or rearranging of the halves is then also not necessary. For the sake of simplicity, the text often only mentions bipolar plates, but this should also include the corresponding interface plates wherever this makes sense.
- a particularly favorable embodiment of the manufacturing method provides that the individual segments of at least one of the belts of the isochoric double-belt press are fixed in a rotationally movable manner on a circulating belt.
- This rotational mobility of the individual segments of at least one band makes it possible for them to rotate to a certain extent, independently of the orientation of the band in the respective area, in such a way that engagement of the corresponding locking elements of two individual segments that meet one another is facilitated.
- the preferred production method for bipolar plates according to the invention then provides that two or more isochoric double-belt presses with individual segments are produced on the cathode side and on the anode side halves for the bipolar plates, in particular according to one of the design variants mentioned above. These halves are then glued together in a continuous process in a conventional isobaric double belt press.
- no separate handling of the elements is necessary. Rather, they can be fed from the two isochoric double-belt presses to the one isobaric double-belt press directly and without having to be transferred or temporarily stored and glued to one another in the desired manner.
- the adhesive is preferably applied with the aid of gravity, for example using a screen printing process or the like, to the halves of the bipolar plates that are fed in from below in the direction of gravity when used as intended, so that the bipolar plates are reliably bonded to one another in the subsequent isobaric double-belt press will.
- This allows the entire bipolar plates to be manufactured easily in a continuous, very reliable and extraordinarily fast process.
- seals which are used later to seal the individual cells and create a sealing effect between the respective bipolar plate and the so-called membrane electrode arrangement (MEA - Membrane Electrode) adjacent to it Assembly) or preferably a framed membrane electrode assembly (MEFA - Membrane Electrode Frame Assembly) to ensure.
- the sealing material can be included in the etched structures of the bands and applied to the bipolar plates in the isobaric double-band press, so that they are not only glued together from their halves, but are also firmly connected to the required seal on at least one or preferably both of their outward-facing sides will.
- zones can be different in the area of the respective double-belt press in the direction of the material flow Temperature are provided.
- different demands on the processes running during production can be easily and efficiently within the Summarize double belt presses.
- three zones with a temperature that decreases in the direction of material flow can be provided.
- the temperature zones can include, in particular, a temperature zone for hot-pressing the structures into the web-shaped blank and subsequent cooling.
- three temperature zones can also be provided here, which have hot, warm and cold temperatures for the hot-pressing in the direction of material flow and provide for the slow cooling of the halves.
- a station for post-processing of the components or the bipolar plates is provided after at least one of the isochoric and/or isobaric double-belt presses, with the post-processing in particular including laser processing.
- laser processing can be used, for example, to divide larger surfaces into individual elements.
- Corresponding structures and/or microstructures can also be produced on the surface in order to make certain areas of the bipolar plates hydrophilic or hydrophobic, depending on the design of the corresponding halves of the bipolar plates.
- structures can also be created in this way which, in particular during the production of the halves of the bipolar plates, produce structures which enable better adhesion of the bipolar plates to one another when the halves are finally glued to form the bipolar plates or better adhesion of subsequently applied seals to the bipolar plates.
- Further post-processing can also include cleaning with superheated steam, plasma treatment or the like.
- cutting or snapping off individual components along predetermined predetermined breaking points to separate the individual components and/or bipolar plates as part of such post-processing is also conceivable and possible in the continuous manufacturing process. Further advantageous configurations of the production method according to the invention also result from the exemplary embodiments, which are described in more detail below with reference to the figures.
- the assembly of prefabricated membrane-electrode units takes place by means of the bipolar plates or interface plates produced in the previous production process using a continuous double-belt press process.
- the membrane-electrode unit and the bonded and sealed bipolar plate or interface plate are continuously joined together with the aid of a DBP, with an isochoric press preferably curing of previously applied adhesive and with an isobaric press preferably injecting sealing material into a mold .
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic enlargement of a detail from FIG. 1 ;
- FIG. 3 shows a schematic enlargement of a detail from FIG. 2;
- FIG. 6 shows a diagrammatically indicated method structure for the production of bipolar plates.
- the double belt press designated in its entirety by 1 is shown. It consists of a band structure in the upper area and a band structure in the lower area.
- the double-belt press 1 in the illustration in FIG. 1 is designed as a so-called isochoric double-belt press 1 .
- a bipolar plate 5 is the plate lying between the individual cells of a fuel cell stack, with the illustration in Figure 4 showing an exemplary view of such a bipolar plate 5 is shown.
- An interface plate is the last plate in the cell stack, i.e. the plate that is not followed by any other single cell. This is then an anode interface plate at one end of the fuel cell stack and a cathode interface plate at the other end.
- bipolar plates 5 and one cathode-side and one anode-side interface plate are required accordingly.
- bipolar plates 5 are mentioned below, but this should always include the corresponding interface plates.
- Such a bipolar plate 5 itself is now typically produced from two halves which are glued together in the stacking direction.
- 4 shows a plan view of the bipolar plate 5 and here, for example, of the anode-side half.
- Hydrogen or hydrogen-containing gas for example, is fed in through an opening designated 6 in the bipolar plate 5 and distributed uniformly to the individual cell or the membrane electrode arrangement located there, which forms the core of the individual cell, via the flow field designated 7. Residual gas flows out again via opening 8 .
- a corresponding flow field for cooling medium is formed on the opposite side of this half, which flows in through the opening 9 and out again through the opening 10 .
- the opposite half which is covered here by the half shown, has a similar, mirror-inverted structure, so that air or oxygen flows into this cathode-side half via opening 11, is distributed over a flow field located there on the back of the illustration in Figure 4, and the residual gases or exhaust gases flow out again via the opening 12 .
- This structure of a bipolar plate 5 is generally known to a person skilled in the art of fuel cells, so that it does not need to be discussed further here.
- the individual segments 4 are preferably rotatably suspended on the belt 3, at least on the belt 3 lying at the top during production, so that they meet with the individual segments 4 supplied horizontally on the lower belt 3 with a precise fit during pressing.
- locking elements 13 are provided, as can be seen in the representation in Figure 3, which is to be understood as a further enlargement of the representation in Figure 2, which position the individual segments 4 in a precise manner relative to one another so that during the Pressing to ensure the lowest possible manufacturing tolerances between one and the other side of the manufactured halves of bipolar plates.
- the locking elements 13 can be implemented, for example, in the form of the pins indicated here and—preferably funnel-shaped—openings, which engage in one another as the individual segments 4 come closer together, and thus the individual segments 4 and the shaping structures introduced into the respective individual segments 4 can be reproduced in the desired position relative to each other.
- the corresponding structure is then introduced into the material of the supplied blank 2 by the structures in the manner of pressing and embossing, so that at the end of the double-belt press 1 in the direction of the material flow m the corresponding halves of the bipolar plates 5 are produced in a dimensionally stable manner.
- the double-belt press 1 preferably has three temperature zones in succession in the material flow direction m, which are denoted by I, II and III in the illustration in FIG. 1 and are drawn in with a dot-dash line.
- a correspondingly high temperature prevails in the first temperature zone I, so that the mixture of the blank 2 is pressed and hardened by a hot pressing process in the isochoric double-belt press 1 in order to determine the shape of the individual halves of the bipolar plates 5 via the individual segments 4.
- Zone marked II has a slightly lower temperature in order to gently cool the material, while remaining between the individual segments 4 of the double-belt press 1 ensures at the same time that the component produced does not warp during the cooling phase, but can be produced flat and with a precise shape .
- the ambient temperature of the device then prevails again in the third temperature zone, designated III, so that further cooling takes place before the halves of the bipolar plates 5 produced in this way press the double band press 1.
- the halves of the bipolar plates 5 can be produced continuously in the double belt press according to FIG.
- the use of the individual segments 4, which can also be exchanged if necessary, in order to quickly adapt the system to changes in the design, also makes it possible, for example with a number of individual segments 4 corresponding to the number of individual cells, to replace all the halves required, for example on the anode side, with a single rotation of the Produce double-belt press 1, preferably one of the individual segments 4 realized the shape for an interface plate, so that it can be produced directly, without the need for a complex and parallel process is necessary. Since this interface board is typically required only once per 200 to 300 halves, this would otherwise involve considerable effort and would typically necessitate a parallel but very underutilized production process.
- Another advantage of the structure of the isochoric double belt press 1 is that the individual segments 4, which run back on the side facing away from the pressing process, ie at the top of the upper belt 3 and at the bottom of the lower belt 3, are empty in this phase. For example, they can be cleaned there, sprayed with a release agent or prepared with inserts in order to make ideal use of the return flow and improve and accelerate the process overall.
- the halves of the bipolar plate 5 produced in this way can then, as indicated in the illustration in FIG. 5, be connected to one another accordingly via an isobaric double-band press 14.
- the structure is essentially the same as that of the double-belt press 1, which is designed as an isochoric double-belt press with individual segments 4. Only the individual segments are omitted, so that the bands 3 of the isobaric double-belt press 14 take over the pressing of the layers to each other directly, as is known in principle from the field of double-belt presses.
- a web of halves on the anode side comes from above and is denoted by 15, for example, while a web denoted by 16 with halves on the cathode side is fed in from below or in this case.
- an adhesive 17 is preferably applied to the lower web 16 in the direction of gravity in a predetermined structure, for example by means of screen printing or the like.
- the adhesive will typically enclose the outer edges of each half of the bipolar plate 5 and the respective openings 6, 8, 11 and 12 which are not in communication with a cooling medium flow field.
- the individual halves of the subsequent bipolar plate 5 are thus glued to one another via this adhesive 17 .
- different temperature zones I, II and III are possible, e.g. to activate and/or liquefy, harden and/or align the components and allow them to cool in a directed way.
- the belts 3 are not in contact with the materials to be pressed and bonded on their way back, ie in the upper part of the double belt press 14 at the top and in the lower part of the double belt press 14 at the bottom.
- the bands 3 each have a structure.
- This structure can be realized in particular as an etched structure, which is etched into the strips 3 using electrochemical or photochemical methods.
- the structure can, for example, have the form of seals required later on the bipolar plate 5, which seal the bipolar plate in relation to a framed membrane electrode assembly (MEFA) accordingly.
- the sealing material can be applied, for example, in the stations that are indicated and are each designated by the reference numeral 18 .
- the applied sealing material bonds with the material of the individual bipolar plates 5 in the isobaric double-belt press 14, if necessary under the action of temperature in one of zones I, II or III, so that these are completely finished and only have to be divided into the individual plates.
- the core is formed by two isochoric double-belt presses 1, each of which is supplied with a blank 2, which can be produced in further optional double-belt presses or other suitable devices, which are denoted by 19 here.
- the blank 2 can be designed, for example, in the form of a foil of a web-shaped green compact made of resin that is not cured or not fully cured with electrically conductive fillers such as graphite, but in principle also from other plastics such as gels, lacquers or the like, optionally with a foil or the like as a carrier .
- the respective isochoric double belt press 1 with individual segments 4 there are then two optional post-processing stations designated 20, which can be used, for example, to create different structures via plasma processing, laser processing or the like, for example to improve the adhesion of the adhesive 17 applied later, but also to create specific hydrophobic or hydrophilic areas within the flow fields, to cut out openings and/or the like.
- This material 22 can then be transported in a further optional post-processing station 23 to form the individual bipolar plates 5, as indicated schematically in the representation of FIG. 6 using three bipolar plates 5.
- Such a manufacturing method as shown for example in the illustration in FIG , which preferably come to lie exactly at the right place within the isolated bipolar plates 5 by means of a corresponding arrangement of the individual segments 4 .
- bipolar plates 5 and interface plates can be manufactured very quickly, efficiently and with high accuracy.
- These can then be packaged immediately after the post-processing station 23 in units corresponding to one fuel cell stack each, without further sorting, rearranging or the like becoming necessary.
- This ensures a very efficient, simple and cost-effective high-volume production process for the bipolar plates 5, for example from a duromer filled with graphite, such as a phenolic resin, an epoxy resin or the like.
- the bipolar plates 5 can then also be subjected to correspondingly high loads without the hitherto usual disadvantage of the very slow production of such mechanically advantageous bipolar plates 5.
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