Lab: Center for Automotive Research (CAR)

Organization

Organization Name: The Ohio State University

General

Name: Center for Automotive Research (CAR)
Code: CAR
Type:
Location: 930 Kinnear Rd., West Campus

Description

CAR is located in a 35,000 sq. ft. facility and offers advanced experimental facilities that include engine and vehicle dynamometers, vibration, noise and acoustics laboratories, intelligent and autonomous vehicle laboratories, engine fluid mechanics and combustion research facilities, and electric, hybrid-electric propulsion, fuel cell and electrochemical energy storage research facilities. In addition, CAR has access to the full-service proving grounds of the Transportation Research Center, Inc.

Lab Capabilities

(Only the services that are checked are available at this facility.)

Testing
Fabricating
Modeling

Other Capabilities:

Onsite Research Gases

(Only the gases that are checked are available at this facility.)

Air
Water
Oxygen
Nitrogen
Helium
Hydrogen
Carbon Monoxide
Natural Gas
Blended Gases

Deionized Water

Deionized Water Present

Fume Hoods

Fume Hoods Present

Lab Benches

Benches Present

Contacts

Name	Organization	Title
Yann Guezennec	The Ohio State University	Professor
Jim Shively	The Ohio State University	Electronics Technician
Don Williams	The Ohio State University	Mechanical Technician / Machinist

Equipment/Products/Services

Type	Fuel Cell	Name
Equipment		PEM fuel cell stack characterization laboratory
Equipment	PEM	Pressurized Automotive 70 kW PEM Fuel Cell System with Hardware-in-the-Loop Fuel Cell Stack Emulator
Equipment	PEM	Hybridized Fuel Cell Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (NEV)
Equipment		Automotive Hydrogen Analyzer
Equipment		Single channel PEM fuel cell visualization set-up
Equipment		Hydrogen Refueling Station

Created By: Zack Rose on 4/20/2009 2:50:56 PM.

Last Modified By: Zack Rose on 4/21/2010 7:51:45 AM.