Noah2 newsletter January 2025

Dear reader,

Welcome to the first NOAH2 newsletter! We're excited to introduce our project.

NOAH2 will significantly boost electrolysis performance and durability of cells & stacks beyond State-of-the-Art (SoA), while reducing critical raw materials (CRM) and cost of manufacturing using environmentally friendly and well-established large scale production routes for solid oxide technology.

The goal of the NOAH2 project is to provide a sustainable, cost-competitive, flexible, and durable stack technology for hydrogen production at temperatures < 700°C by developing innovative electrodes, cell, and stack designs.

Read on to explore the cutting-edge work happening at NOHA2!

Key project goals – applications and challenges that need to be solved!

Hydrogen is a key energy vector in a future decarbonised economy. Large-scale application in numerous sectors, such as transport, iron & steel plants, and the chemical industry requires efficient and sustainable production routes of green hydrogen. Electrolysis of water/steam using electricity from renewable sources like wind and solar is a sustainable solution.

Currently all electrolyser technologies are still challenged by high CAPEX and OPEX, which are closely related to the used materials and manufacturing processes to produce the electrolyser system, and operational characteristics such as electrical efficiency, lifetime, and flexible operating modes.

Compared to the most mature electrolysis technologies, alkaline electrolysis (AEL) and (to slightly lesser extent) polymer exchange membrane electrolysis (PEMEL), the high temperature or solid oxide electrolysis (SOEL) has significantly attractive features, which can be harvested for lowering CAPEX and OPEX:

High electrical efficiencies approaching 100%,
Reduced materials costs as the stacks do not use noble elements,
Operational flexibility.

SOEL challenges that need to be solved to reach large-scale market breakthrough are:

Lifetime increase and degradation reduction of SOEL stacks to reduce OPEX
Increased flexibility of operation when combining SOEL with renewable energy sources (RES). Presently, ceramic brittleness of most mature SOEL configurations challenge rapid operational strategies.
Reducing costs for process materials (e.g. Co, Rare earth elements), components production and assemblies

Get to know the team

Discover our project partners! Read exclusive interviews where they share their expertise, challenges, and visions for the future.

So far, you can read exclusive interviews with experts like:

NOAH2 First Kick off meeting

The first NOAH2 kick off meeting was organized on-line in January 2024.
Great ambience and all partners were starting their respective tasks.

NOAH2 SOCIAL MEDIA - LinkedIn

No better way to inform you of the project’s progress than via our social media. Follow us on LinkedIn to stay up to date on all things NOHA2.

Facts

NOAH2 joins a multi-disciplinary consortium of 7 partners from different countries who are working together on this project:

The NOAH2 project is supported through the European Commission’s Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking
Project Title: Novel SOE architectures for hydrogen production
Call Identifier: HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2023-01-02
Grant number: 101137600 – NOAH2
Start date: 01 January 2024
Duration: 3 years
Grant: 2.87 M€

Acknowledgements

The project is supported by the Clean Hydrogen Partnership and its members (Grant Agreement No 101137600). Co-funded by the European Union.
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Clean Hydrogen Partnership. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.