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C. Industry Standards

1. Applications and Components
Description: Support the consensus standards process, national and international.
Goals: Enhance compatibility and market acceptance. Support, and maintain consistency with, federal rulemaking activity.

a) Vehicles

i. Light-duty vehicles (Society of Automotive Engineers - SAE)

ii. Heavy-duty trucks (SAE)

iii. Buses (SAE)

iv. Marine

v. Rail

vi. Aircraft (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - AIAA/NASA)

b) APUs

c) Infrastructure

i. Fuel containers and cylinders

ii. Fuel systems

iii. Pipelines

d) Stationary fuel cells

i. Test protocol for residential fuel cell systems [Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)]
Description: The tests cover issues of efficiency, performance, and compatibility with the power grid in the case of interconnection. The final draft was delivered to EPRI in April 2002.

e) Commercial fuel transport

f) International

i. Develop a U.S. government position and approval for international standards.

ii. Develop a unified approach to standards development among key countries in Europe and the Pacific Rim.

iii. Develop a mechanism to license ISO standards.

2. Performance Standards

a) Test methods Description: Industry consensus test methodology for stationary fuel cell units. (http://fire.nist.gov/bfrlpubs/build01/art057.html)

i. Identify key parameters that influence fuel cell performance

a. environmental conditions

b. electrical loads

c. thermal loads

ii. Construct Fuel Cell Testing Laboratory

iii. Conduct experiments to determine effect of various parameters on overall performance

a. Ambient temperature

b. Relative humidity

c. Electrical load magnitude

d. Thermal load magnitude

e. Transient loads

iv. Develop Consensus Test Procedure

a. Prepare draft document

b. Incorporate industry proposed changes/suggestions

c. Submit draft document to American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)/American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

d. Revise in accordance with ASHRAE/ASME comments

e. Publish final test procedure

b) Rating methodology
Goal: Fair evaluations for informed consumer choices about stationary fuel cells.

i. Collect performance data

a. Various geographical locations

b. Various electrical and thermal loads

ii. Develop rating methodologies to predict annual performance using site meteorological and load data.

iii. Predict annual performance and compare to measured performance.

a. Various geographical locations

b. Various electrical and thermal loads

iv. Transfer rating methodology to fuel cell manufacturers.

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