Development and optimisation of reliable and versatile PEMFC stacks for high power range applications
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Programme Description
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (hereinafter “EuroHPC JU”), will contribute to the ambition of value creation in the Union with the overall mission to develop, deploy, extend and maintain in the Union an integrated world class supercomputing and quantum computing infrastructure and to develop and support a highly competitive and innovative High Performance Computing (HPC) ecosystem, extreme scale, power-efficient and highly resilient HPC and data technologies.
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Summary
Advances in the PEMFC stacks technology are needed to support deployment of Fuel Cell heavy-duty transports. Cost-competitive and reliable integration require stack solutions particularly tailored for sustained operation at high stack-power. Proposals should focus on applicability of their developments in the field of land transport, primarily road, while considering possible spill over benefits for maritime, rail and aviation.
Detailed Call Description
Proposals should address innovative concepts, designs, methods and/or operating-strategies. Related investigations may tackle cell and stack levels, including flow-fields, bipolar plates or assembling features (e.g. mechanical aspect), as well as the range, the distribution or the management of the operational conditions (e.g. thermal or reactant gases feeding aspects). The overall process should build on comprehension of the currently proven PEMFC technology and further development at stack level targeting optimised operation for high efficiency and extended durability at high stack power density. For the range of power envisioned, increasing efficiency would enhance the overall system with respect to volume savings for fuel storage.
Innovation on MEA is out of scope of this topic. Work should therefore be conducted on validated components, including commercialised or developed in other actions. Availability of baseline features on MEA should be a prerequisite: for commercial or promising R&D products, agreement of companies or developers to provide needed parameters and to allow deep analysis as relevant for reaching expected outcomes is needed. Maximum total loading should be 0.5 mg PGM/cm².
Focusing the development on advanced research work while monitoring progress and validating final optimisation at representative scale under protocols and conditions relevant for system level, is expected to achieve expected outcomes with efficient innovative solutions applicable for short-term integration.
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Thematic Categories
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Transport
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Large Enterprises
- Private Bodies
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Consortia should include at least one partner in the consortium for the exploitation of the project results and willingness to exploit the results should be demonstrated. It is encouraged to include actors from research and industry, the latter being interested in PEMFC stacks or system deployment.
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.
In order to ensure a balanced portfolio covering complementary approaches, grants will be awarded to applications not only in order of ranking but at least also to one additional project that is / are complementary, provided that the applications attain all thresholds.