The HYScale project engages research institutes to support the industry with knowledge, highly sophisticated scientific methods for materials, components, and system analysis, as well as an additional channel for disseminating and exploiting the project results.
Cutting-Edge Nanomaterials UG (CENmat) is a company based in Pforzheim, Germany, founded in 2019 as a Spin-Off of the German Aerospace Center, with a focus on the development and manufacturing of electrolysers. CENmat is a vertically integrated water electrolyser company built for the climate era. Their technologies allow the production of economical and truly green hydrogen with electrolyser technologies that are sustainable, scalable, highly efficient and low-cost for a green and fossil-free future.
Website: cen-mat.com
Contribution: Project coordination and management, membrane and electrode optimisation and upscale, production of membranes and electrodes for the stack.
Global market and technology leader in material science of steel wire transformation and coating technologies, Bekaert also applies its expertise beyond steel to create new solutions with innovative materials and services for markets including new mobility, low-carbon construction, and green energy.
Website: bekaert.com
Contribution: Act as a Porous Transport Layer (PTL) supplier for the anode side of the proposed AEM electrolyser.
As hydrogen technology provider, HyGear takes the lead in both hydrogen generation with a low or carbon-negative footprint and in the production and supply of sustainable gas.
Website: hygear.com
Contribution: Design of the demonstrator system.
Innovation Hub is the leading electricity generation and supply company in Greece with activities in the generation, distribution and sale of electricity to consumers. The PPC Group maintains a total installed generation capacity of 10.4 GW in Greece, with thermal and hydroelectric power plants as well as Renewable Energy Sources (RES) installations both on the mainland and on the islands.
Website: innovationhub.dei.gr
Contribution: End-user testing the performance HYScale technology during demonstrations. The integrated fuel cell system will be transferred to the premises of PPC’s Innovation Hub, there to be connected to an electrical grid fed by RES (PVs, batteries) and subsequently to be tested for its performance.
Company addressing the entrepreneurial needs of those who are at the forefront of knowledge-intensive regions’ development: European Commission, regional governments & development agencies, public & private investors, research organisations, start-up companies & entrepreneurs.
Website: meta-group.com
Contribution: Exploitation partner involved also in the dissemination and communication activities.
Major research organisation working in fundamental research, it is able to provide tangible solutions to meet their needs in four key fields: low-carbon energy (nuclear and renewable), digital technology, technology for medicine of the future, and defence and national security.
Website: cea.fr
Contribution: Electrode engineering and post mortem analyses.
The Institute of Advanced Technologies for Energy “N. Giordano” (ITAE) is one Institutes of the Engineering, ICT and Technologies for Energy and Transport Department (DIITET) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). Within the Department, ITAE’s strategic mission is mainly aimed at promoting and developing innovative energy processes and technologies with a higher efficiency and a lower environmental impact based on the use of fossil fuels (still available today) and/or renewable energy sources.
Website: cnr.it
Contribution: Design of large active area cell and short stack prototype, analysis, down-selection and optimisation of materials and components, manufacturing and testing of the short stack.
National research institution of the Federal Republic of Germany focusing on aeronautics, space, transport and energy. The Electrochemical Energy Technology department of the Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics has many years of experience in the fields of fuel cells and water electrolysis (AEM, alkaline, PEM, SOEC). Using laboratory experiments and computer simulation, almost 200 employees research the scientific principles of electrochemical and thermochemical energy storage and evaluate the efficiency, costs and sustainability of future energy systems. and sustainability of future energy systems.
Website: dlr.de
Contribution: Design of the HYScale full stack with advanced components and reduced costs (100 kW) with an high active area for each cell (400 cm²), modelling and simulation of the stack based on single cell and short stack tests, pristine and post mortem component analysis including AFM, FIB-SEM, XPS, FTIR, etc. and cell testing and analysis.
The University of Ljubljana, Slovenia’s oldest and largest higher education and research institution, is known for its outstanding achievements in the social, natural and technical sciences. The team at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (UL) brings the expertise in life cycle assessment, life cycle costing and social LCA, which is the result of many successful EU-funded Clean Hydrogen Partnership projects over the last five years, in which UL has been involved as a leader in the field of sustainability assessment.
Website: fs.uni-lj.si
Contribution: Environmental and techno-economic analysis.