The WCI laboratory is a 1200 sq. ft. multifunctional facility for fuel cell and catalysis research.

Some of the avaliable equipment for characterization includes:

-Several 1000°C multiple ramp tube furnaces
-Thee Eldex high pressure liquid pumps
-Multi-functional TPR/TPD flow system
-Setaram TGA/DSC thermal analyzer
-Agilent 4-column micro GC
-Shimadzu 2010 GC with PD detector FID/Methanizer
-Two HP 5890II GCs

-Labview data aquisition
-ASAP 2010 Surface area and pore size analyzer
-1500°C Lindberg tube furnace
-Portable MKS Cirrus RGA Mass Spectrometer (1-300amu)
-AutoChem II 2920 with vapor generator and cryo cooler
automated catalyst characterization system with on-line MS analysis

Laboratory infrastructure includes:

-Laboratory wide gas delivery manifolding
-Hazardous gas alarms and monitoring

-7 dedicated reactor test stands
         -Fuel Reforming
     -Water Gas Shift
     -SOFC single cell testing
     -PEM MEA testing
     -RDE half cell testing
     -Partial oxidation
     -CO oxidation