Development and validation of high power and impurity tolerant fuel cell systems ready to run on industrial quality dry hydrogen
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Programme Description
The Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking or Clean Hydrogen Partnership is a unique public-private partnership supporting research and innovation (R&I) activities in hydrogen technologies in Europe. It builds upon the success of its predecessor, the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking.
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Summary
This topic aims to bridge the power gap between small stationary and MW installations, by developing and validating a building block in the shape of a renewable hydrogen fuelled fuel cell system (of at least 100 kW), which can be customised for various applications, have a modular design and be impurity tolerant.
The duration of the validation should be at least 5,000 hours.
This building block should be able to operate at any location having access to any renewable hydrogen supply sources underground storage facilities initially used for natural gas storage, natural gas grid enabled to transport hydrogen as well as dedicated hydrogen grid.
Moreover, the durable and flexible (full and partial load) operations of a ≥ 100 kW fuel cell system with industrial quality dry hydrogen (95% pure) should be also explored. The validation should be performed for use case cold ironing or ground power supply at the site, where industrial quality dry hydrogen fuel without blending is available.
Detailed Call Description
The following activities should be within the scope of this topic:
- Hydrogen fuelled system design and development utilising existing fuel cell stack manufacturing technologies;
- Analysis of impurities in hydrogen coming from renewable hydrogen generators, storage and other sources (expected impurities to be considered are CO, odorants, CH4, N2, CO2, ethane and propane with total content up to 5%) and development of impurity-tolerant system;
- Quantification of degradation in fuel cells and BoP components, and the effect of operation parameters on degradation at different impurity level and operational cycles;
- Risk assessment of safety aspects in relation to the future certification of the system and techno-economical assessment for a selected application;
- System operation with commercially available and affordable hydrogen with major impurities/contaminants including state of health monitoring;
- Dynamic modelling of system performance on hydrogen and hydrogen blends (if reasonable for the application selected) and system dynamic load and transient behaviour operation according to the end-user load profile(s) for selected application(s).
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Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
EU Contribution per project: € 4,000,000
Number of proposals: 1
Thematic Categories
- Energy
- Environment and Climate Change
- Industry
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Large Enterprises
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Consortia are expected to gather comprehensive expertise from the EU research and industrial community to ensure broad impact by addressing the abovementioned items.
A participation of end user(s) for the selected system application is expected.
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EU Contact Point
Email: info@clean-hydrogen.europa.eu
Phone number: +32 22218148
Postal address: Avenue de la Toison d’Or 56-60, 1060 Brussels, Belgium
(Publish Date: 01/03/2023-for internal use only)