- FHA serves hundreds of European hydrogen companies with technical and project support.
- Pulsenics provides uniquely insightful stack-level diagnostics.
- Stack manufacturers can avoid expensive teardowns by using EIS from Pulsenics.
FHA supports energy independence in Spain and Europe by accelerating the commercialization of green hydrogen. They provide technical and project support to European companies from their facility in Walqa Technology Park in Huesca, Spain.
Pulsenics has supported FHA with stack-level diagnostics since 2024. As the hydrogen industry matures, the need for stack-level diagnostics has become increasingly urgent. Green hydrogen businesses depend on uptime, reliability, and cycle life in their stacks to achieve profitability. Pulsenics Pulse Probes, which possess a unique high-power architecture for electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), provide the measurements that hydrogen producers need most.
“We first selected Pulsenics as a provider of stack diagnostics because of their unique technology,” commented FHA Scientist Lidia Martinez. “As our collaboration has deepened, we’ve also come to rely on their assistance interpreting EIS data and adapting our experiments. We handle hundreds of inquiries a year from all types of companies and we really value vendors that are as flexible and nimble as we are.”
FHA buzzes at the center of a rapidly growing H2 ecosystem
FHA’s physical space contains 1,200 m2 of offices, laboratories and workshops dedicated to hydrogen equipment, a unique offer on the European continent. Hundreds of organizations have used FHA’s equipment and expert staff to optimize their products, reduce operating costs, test novel components and make tactical improvements like lowering operating temperatures.
FHA also operates a hydrogen refueling station in Spain and offers training courses for workforce development. Spain has abundant renewable energy, thanks to the nation’s long-term commitment to solar and wind development, and FHA will help leverage that leadership to develop a world-class hydrogen ecosystem.
As an independent scientific organization, FHA does not build their own stacks. They test and qualify stacks from private companies, often within the framework of EU-funded projects.
Pulsenics EIS performs non-destructive stack diagnosis that lead to huge outcomes
Pulsenics Pulse Probes, which have traveled all over the world, are trusted across the green hydrogen sector for their unique ability to detect sources of performance loss without requiring teardown or shutdown.
“Our customers are often interested in both resistance measurements of individual stack components and evaluating cell-to-cell contact quality,” continued Lidia Martinez. “The FHA team loves being able to provide these metrics without a destructive teardown. It’s much faster, easier, and more precise than taking the stack apart.”
Because FHA partners often use EIS data to improve how the stack is assembled, rather than changing the core cell technology, these specific metrics are invaluable. Pulsenics Pulse Probes are a rare solution that can perform non-destructive stack diagnostics.