Fuel Cell Stacks

Key Advantages of Ballard's Fuel Cell Stack Products:

Proprietary MEA

• Over 35 years of product development, Ballard has refined the membrane electrode assembly, a core component of our fuel cell stack products.

System Integration Support

• Our Applications Engineering team is available to ensure customer success through the entire system design and integration process.

Volume Manufacturing

• Automated and continuous manufacturing processes ensure high quality, low cost production to meet customer demand.

Tier 1 Customers

• Our extensive collaborations with Tier 1 automotive manufacturers have driven enhanced product durability and performance while rapidly reducing product costs.

Purpose Built Designs

• A choice of air-cooled or liquid-cooled fuel cell stacks ensures purpose-built designs optimized to suit your power application.

Proven Durability

• Ballard’s commercial fuel cell stacks are fully validated, with more than 320MW of products deployed with customers around the world.

Ballard’s liquid-cooled FCvelocity^®–9SSL fuel cell stack is designed to meet the durability requirements of motive power applications with demanding drive cycles. A derivative of our work in automotive fuel cell technology, the FCvelocity^®–9SSL product offers excellent reliability and impressive power density.

Key Features:

• Scalable power output from 4kW to 21kW
• Liquid cooled system enables high durability
• Designed to withstand rugged operating conditions
• Features fast, dynamic response
• Greater than 20,000 hour lifetime, depending on application

The FCvelocity^®-9SSL fuel cell stack is integrated into Ballard’s FCveloCity^® motive module to power transit buses and light rail vehicles. The FCvelocity^®-9SSL fuel cell stack is also widely deployed in Plug Power’s line of GenDrive^® fuel cell systems for electric lift trucks.

Featuring dynamic response, robust and reliable operation and an architecture that enables simplified system design, Ballard’s FCgen^®-1020ACS air-cooled fuel cell stacks are suitable for a wide variety of low power applications and hybrid system designs.

Key Features:

• Scalable power output from 400W to 3.3kW
• Open-cathode stack and self-humidifying MEA eliminates humidifier, coolant pump & radiator
• Up to 10,000 hour lifetime, depending on application
• Robust and reliable performance

The FCgen^®-1020ACS fuel cell stack is widely deployed through integration into Ballard’s FCgen^®-H2PM direct hydrogen backup power systems, as well as Plug Power’s line of GenDrive^® fuel cell systems for electric lift trucks.

Ballard offers a highly versatile, hydrogen-fueled, low power fuel cell stack prototype, the FCgen^®- micro. Ballard’s fuel cell stacks are supplied to system integrators and original equipment manufacturers for integration into end-user products. The FCgen^®-micro is designed for portable and recreational applications.

Also available is the FCgen^®- micro (NPMC), which contains a non-precious metal catalyst (NPMC), a variant of Ballard’s platinum-based FCgen^®-micro, offering both cost savings and improved tolerance to 

common airborne contaminants such as SOx (sulfur oxides).

Key Features:

• Rated power of 30W
• Compact stack design
• Open-cathode stack eliminates humidifier, coolant pump & radiator
• Available in both platinum or non-precious metal catalyst based cathode design
• Produces clean DC power

Prototype units are ready for limited customer evaluation in applications where product size, durability and power density are key considerations. The FCgen^®-micro fuel cell stack is especially suitable for ultralight-weight applications such as laptop and cell phone chargers, and military soldier power devices.