The EIL is well-equipped with facilities for carrying out a wide range of fabrication, test and characterisation. Larger scale demonstration facilities are also available, such as in the Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicles Lab, as are computer facilities and the rapid prototyping workshop.
The lists below give an indication of the range of equipment available within the EIL:
- Maps of EIL Complex
The maps of the EIL complex show location of labs and major items of equipment.
- Electrochemical
Electrochemical test stations - Ivium*4
Electrochemical test stations - Solartron *3
Electrochemical test stations - Autolab *5
Fuel cell test stations - Scribner *4
Fuel cell test stations - Greenlight * 4
Fuel cell test stations - Bespoke *3
Direct methanol fuel cell test rigs - Fideris *2
Corrosion test rigs
Low temperature electrolyser rig *2
High temperature electrolyser rig
Battery test (cyclers) >100 channels
Fuel cell controlled compression
Stack controlled compression
Rotating Disc Electrode systems *3
Nuclear materials electrochemistry rig
Molten salt electrochemical reactors*2
Contact resistance (controlled compression)
Photoelectrochemical rigs*2
Multi-channel fuel cell stack electrochemical impedance
FRA*8
- Fabrication
Fuel cell fabrication Li-battery coin and pouch cell production lineÂ
Electroplating bathÂ
Continuous hydrothermal synthesisÂ
High temperature preparation furnaces*15
Rapid prototyping (CNC*3 and laser cutter)
High purity water system*2
- Characterisation and Analytical
Thermal imaging camera
QCM, EQCM and GCM
X-ray nano CT * 3
SEM/EDX
Electrochemical AFM
Raman microscope
Battery calorimeter
Mass spectrometry
Ion chromatography
Gas chromatography
- Software
Solidworks CAD
Rhino CAD/CAM
Comsol Multiphysics
GAMS
gPROMS
LabVIEW