Advanced High Pressure and Cost-Effective PEM Water Electrolysis Technology

€1.63M EUR

Funder	European Commission
Recipient Organization	Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche
Country	Italy
Start Date	Feb 01, 2023
End Date	Jan 31, 2026
Duration	1,095 days
Number of Grantees	9
Roles	Associated Partner; Third Party; Coordinator; Participant
Data Source	European Commission
Grant ID	`101101318`

Grant Description

Direct production of highly pressurised hydrogen from electrolytic water splitting can allow saving relevant amounts of energy compared to down-stream gas compression.

The aim of this project is to develop a novel polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyser able to produce hydrogen at very high pressure (200 bar) thus reducing the post-compression energy consumption.

Another goal is to develop a cost-effective technology allowing to achieve large-scale application of PEM electrolysers.

A significant reduction of capital costs is achieved by critical raw materials minimisation, developing cheap coated bipolar plates and operating the electrolyser at a high production rate while assuring high efficiency (about 80% vs. HHV) and safe operation.

ADVANCEPEM aims at developing a set of breakthrough solutions at materials, stack and system levels to increase hydrogen pressure to 200 bar and current density to 5 A cm-2 for the base load, while keeping the nominal energy consumption

All Grantees

Oort Energy Ltd; Rhodia Laboratoire Du Futur; Hssmi Trading Limited; Rwe Generation Se; Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche; Rwe Power Aktiengesellschaft; Solvay Specialty Polymers Italy Spa; Specialty Operations France; Ird Fuel Cells A/S