Fuel Cell Integration to a Mobility Platform

As part of their effort under a NORCAT sub contract, EVC was lead on the integration of a fuel cell onto a NORCAT ISRU mobility platform. The integrated system was utilized to demonstrate a closed ISRU Loop during an analog deployment in Hawaii in January 2010. The loop consisted of the fuel cell accepting hydrogen from an electrolysis unit that had received water from an Orbitec Carbothermal Oxygen plant. This plant utilized feedstock material (Tephra) delivered by a Load Haul Dump (LHD) system mounted on a mobility platform. The batteries for the LHD mobility platform were charged utilizing energy supplied by the Fuel Cell.