Recently, the CENELEC Standard EN IEC 62282-7-2:2025 “Fuel cell technologies – Part 7-2: Test methods – Single cell and stack performance tests for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs)” has been published as a European standard. It was adopted as-is from the work published by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) under the same title.

Stephen McPhail – from the testing, inspection, and certification company KIWA – is appointed expert of the Maintenance Team for this Standard in the IEC Technical Committee TC105 and supported the AMON results to be taken up by the standardization working group thereby including ammonia in the revised standard. In particular, clauses have been revised to take into consideration the safety and operational implications of using ammonia as a fuel as well as calculation adaptations related to fuel cell performance in same conditions. The contribution by AMON thus has made testing of fuel cells fed with ammonia safer, more reliable and replicable. This will help faster development of this application as well as international awareness of the potential of ammonia-fed SOFCs.

The IEC 62282-7-2:2025 applies to SOFC cell/stack assembly units, testing systems, instruments and measuring methods, and specifies test methods to test the performance of SOFC cells and stacks. This standard is used to provide fully referenced cell/stack performance specifications, and as such a statement or declaration of conformity of any SOFC fed with ammonia can be issued by relevant (accredited) testing institutions. The standard can also be used for acquiring data on a cell or stack in order to estimate the performance of an end-user-ready system that integrates such a fuel cell. Users of this document can selectively execute test items suitable for their purposes from those described in this document.

What is a Standard?

As reported in the CENELEC website “A standard is a technical document designed to be used as a rule, guideline or definition. It is a consensus-built, repeatable way of doing something. Standards are created by bringing together all interested parties such as manufacturers, consumers and regulators of a particular material, product, process or service. All parties benefit from standardization through increased product safety and quality as well as lower transaction costs and prices. A European Standard (EN) is implemented by the national CEN and CENELEC Members as a national standard, and therefore is included in the standards catalogue of CEN and CENELEC’s Members, the National Standardization Organizations in 34 countries.”

More information on European Standards here: https://www.cencenelec.eu/european-standardization/european-standards/

More information on the International Electrotechnical Commission: https://webstore.iec.ch/en/

IEC 62282-7-2:2025: https://webstore.iec.ch/en/publication/80456