High-Temperature Materials Fabrication
GTI fuel cell laboratories include all the materials processing, fabrication, and testing equipment necessary for fabricating SOFC and MCFC components in sizes from 0.75-inch diameter disks (3 cm²) to 16-in2 rectangles (100 cm²). This includes a full range of processing equipment of:

• Controlled-atmosphere and air-atmosphere sintering furnaces
• Ball mills and vibratory mills
• Room temperature isostatic press (50,000 psi)
• Hot press (100 tons)
• A 24-inch wide tape caster capable of casting and drying tapes up to 72 inches in length
• Spraying and screen printing apparatus capable of coating samples up to 4 ft² in area.
  

Fuel Cell Materials Analysis
GTI maintains a well-equipped modern analytical laboratory capable of a wide range of materials analysis and is well practiced in analyzing fuel cell component hardware. Analytical methods available at GTI for fuel cell component analysis include:

• Atomic absorption
• Powder pattern X-Ray diffraction
• Hg-intrusion porosimetry
• SEM/EDX micro-probe analysis.

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Fuel Cell Fabrication and Testing Facilities
GTI has single cell and multi-cell stack testing capabilities from small 0.5-Watt research cells up to 5-kilowatt fuel cell stack modules. Six of the ten high-temperature bench-scale test facilities are capable of pressurized operation at up to 5-atm pressure.

GTI fuel cell labs are supplied with hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and air from cryogenic and compressed gas bulk storage systems. In addition, all fuel cell test stands can be supplied with pre-mixed custom blended fuel and oxidant mixtures allowing GTI to simulate virtually any fuel and oxidant mixture.