Partners
Danmark Tekniske Universitet
The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is one of Europe’s foremost technical universities, with approximately 5000 employees of which more than half are scientific staff members including more than 1000 PhD students. DTU Energy has now more than 240 employees and holds world class expertise in fuel cells (solid oxide fuel cells and polymer electrolyte fuel cells), electrolysis cells, batteries, hydrogen storage, and “power-to-X” related technologies.
DTU Energy has experience since 1987 in solid oxide cell research and development. Currently approximately 40 persons work directly on SOFC and SOEC related national and international projects, including materials development, cell manufacturing, stacks development and advance characterization and testing. DTU pioneered the field of metal supported SOFCs and has developed a unique metal base monolith that is one of the cornerstones in the NOAH2 project.
Role in the NOAH2 project
In the NOAH2 project, DTU coordinates the efforts in developing an innovative architecture for SOEC stacks promising to bring down production costs and increase power density without affecting performance set by conventional solutions. DTU will develop innovative cell and stack manufacture scalable routes. DTU will also bring in its expertise in electrochemical characterization and advanced microstructural analysis techniques for investigating the performance and durability of the developed cells and stacks.
Foundation of Research and Technology - Hellas
FORTH was founded in 1984 and operates in Patras, Greece. It is one of the ten (10) Institutes of the Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas (FORTH) that reports to the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (GSRI). FORTH has been recognized repeatedly as a top-level research center not only in the country but also in Europe, following several evaluation and ranking studies. The mission of the Institute is to conduct forefront scientific research, contribute to technological innovation, provide training and advanced education to new researchers, and contribute to the development of the Region of Western Greece, in particular, and the country as a whole. The Institute covers a broad range of disciplines within chemical engineering sciences: (i) nanotechnology & advanced materials, (ii) energy & environment, (iii) biosciences & biotechnology. In addition to the mainstream activities in these sectors, several major activities are promoted at the interfaces of these areas, creating a truly multidisciplinary work environment. The research results respond to modern societal challenges, like green energy, environment, and quality of life. The Institute also encourages strongly the exploitation of research results in the form of patents, licensing, and spin-off companies.
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Role in the NOAH2 project
Within NOAH2, FORTH/ICEHT activities will be mainly focused on electrocatalysts synthesis, physicochemical characterization, button cells preparation, electrochemical testing and characterization/EIS modelling. In addition, FORTH/ICEHT will contribute on the manufacture of the new developed large sized single cells and of the short SOE stacks. Finally, FORTH will lead the Dissemination & Communication activities and will contribute to Sustainability & Impact.
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
CEA has been developing for more than 15 years a transversal program on H2 and fuel cells. In this frame, CEA is recognized internationally as one of the main experts of the SOC technology. CEA has developed a platform for single cell and stack manufacturing. It has also the capability for standard cell fabrication including tape-casting, screen printing or other techniques such as infiltration. A platform of 600 m² of H2 laboratory is also available for testing at different length-scales from the electrode up to the stack and system levels. In addition to its experimental facilities, CEA has developed a multiscale and multiphysic modelling framework combined with advanced characterizations such as synchrotron X-ray nano-tomography and nano-diffraction.
Role in the NOAH2 project
In NOAH2, CEA will contribute to the cell manufacturing with the developments of innovative infiltrated oxygen electrodes. It will also participate to the electrochemical characterisations at the electrode, cell and short stack levels. CEA will also use and complement its modelling tool to support the electrode developments and optimisations in the project. CEA will lead the WP2 on the innovative electrodes.
Globus Metal Powders
GMP boasts state-of-the-art facilities for metal powder production and processing giving it the capacity to produce high-purity, flowable metal powders that are ideal for producing metal supports and interconnects. These metals must possess a range of challenging chemical and physical properties, including high resistance to oxidation and corrosion, low thermal expansion coefficients, and excellent compatibility with surrounding materials, due to the high-temperature and corrosive working environment in SOEL.
Role in the NOAH2 project
Working closely with partners, GMP will use an innovative alloy design approach that combines thermodynamic/kinetic modelling with experimental validation to optimize the state-of-the-art alloy grades, with the goal of improving performance and reducing costs.
GENVIA
GENVIA is a Clean Hydrogen Technology Venture created to enable individual organisations, industries and nations to meet their goals for decarbonization by accelerating affordable clean hydrogen production, energy storage and fuel applications at scale. By providing cost-effective access to highperformance electrolyser and fuel cell technologies, GENVIA supports heavy industry to decarbonise and achieve emissions targets.
Role in the NOAH2 project
GENVIA will propose use cases of SOEL in the framework of industry decarbonisation (cement, steel, chemistry). GENVIA will also use its R&D infrastructure in collaboration with CEA to implement new low temperature cells that will be developed during the NOAH2 project into 2 short stacks and will manufacture the short stacks in its pilot line in Beziers (France). GENVIA will also participate to the experimental work done by CEA on the stack. Finally, Genvia will participate in the "gap analysis" that will be conducted to evaluate the possibility of integrating a metal supported cell into its stack technology.
SINTEF
SINTEF is a multidisciplinary contract research organization that performs research and development in sustainable technologies for national and international industry and the public sector. The department involved in NOAH2 is Sustainable Energy Technology, with the subgroup Thin Film and Membranes Technologies. The group has large activities on development and testing of high temperature electrolysers and corrosion protection coatings through an extensive project portfolio of national, EU and industry funded projects. SINTEF is equipped with a pilot-line for fabrication of coatings, which includes an automatic dip-coater, automatic spray-coater and furnaces for annealing and sintering in controlled atmosphere.
Role in the NOAH2 project
SINTEF leads the workpackage related to corrosion studies leveraging their relevant characterisation tools for performing pre- and post-analysis.
Haute École Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale
HES-SO are European leaders in the assessment, measurement and characterisation of green energy production, and the LCA of novel technologies and approaches to industrial challenges.
Role in the NOAH2 project
Their role is to perform a Life Cycle Assessment, identify rooms of improvement and ensure the stack durability and environmental performances improvement throughout the entire life cycle. The objective is also to take a step back and consider environmental issues from an early stage by interacting with partners throughout the project. They are involved in other projects developing hydrogen production technologies through their participation in ANEMEL , SUSTAINCELL, PressHyous and NewSOC projects, in which they have built up an expertise on solid oxide cells.