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Pathway to a Competitive European FC mCHP market (PACE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

...an extended period. This will:- Enable fuel cell mCHP manufacturers to scale up production, using new series techniques, and increased automation. By 2018, four leading European manufacturers (Bosch, SOLIDpower, Vaillant and Viessmann) will have installed capacity for production of over 1,000 units/year (each will install over 500 units in PACE). These production lines will test the manufacturing ...
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ImplementatioN in real SOFC Systems of monItoring and diaGnostic tools using signal analysis to increase tHeir lifeTime (INSIGHT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The INSIGHT project aims at developing a Monitoring, Diagnostic and Lifetime Tool (MDLT) for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) stacks and the hardware necessary for its implementation into a real SOFC system. The effectiveness of the MDLT will be demonstrated through on-field tests on a real micro-Combined Heat and Power system (2.5 kW), thus moving these tools from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3 t ...
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Solid Oxide Stack Lean Manufacturing (SOSLeM)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

The proposed SOSLeM project will contribute to the call objectives by improving production processes as well as developing and applying novel manufacturing technologies for FC stacks. The improvements proposed by the project will sum up to a reduction of manufacturing costs of about 70%, leading to decreased capital cost of about 2.500 €/kW. Besides these outstanding economical and technical impro ...
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Design of 2 Technologies and Applications to Service (D2Service)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The current “Design to service” project aims at simplifying both, residential and commercial fuel cell systems for easy, fast and save system service and maintenance. In order to make best use of lessons learned and available resources, this project jointly works on two distinguished technologies (PEFC&SOFC) in two different markets (residential & extended UPS). Both SME manufacturers are committe ...
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European-wide field trials for residential fuel cell micro-CHP (ENE.FIELD)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

... from partner manufacturers are added to the DOW as annexes;- Considering the inclusion of new partners, units and budgets are accordingly reallocated:o for additional units and budget: Viessmann and SOLIDPowero for reduction of budget and number of units: RBZ, Dantherm, Hexis- Due to a slow start in trial deployment, the deployment period for units will be extended until September 2016.To protect ...
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Steel Coatings For Reducing Degradation in SOFC (SCORED 2:0)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

The economic viability and market place entry of SOFC power systems is directly dependent on their longevity and production costs. Adequate operational life spans can only be achieved, if the performance degradation of the SOFC stacks and Balance of Plant components over time can be considerably reduced. At the same time, manufacturing costs have to be lowered dramatically for the specifically nec ...
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ENhanced DURability materials for Advanced stacks of New solid oxide fuel CElls (Endurance)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

"The project aims at developing reliable predictive models to estimate long-term (i.e. > 20 kh) performance and probability of failure of SOFC stacks based on existing materials and design produced by the industrial partners. This will allow the realization of stacks with extended service intervals and reduced maintenance cost with respect to the present stack technology. The extension of service ...
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Solar integrated pressurized high temperature electrolysis (SOPHIA)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Hydrogen and other fuels are expected to play a key role as energy carrier for the transport sector and as energy buffer for the integration of large amounts of renewable energy into the grid. Therefore the development of carbon lean technologies producing hydrogen at reasonable price from renewable or low CO2 emitting sources like nuclear is of utmost importance. It is the case of water electroly ...
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Innovative SOFC Architecture based on Triode Operation (T-CELL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

"The development of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) operating on hydrocarbon fuels (natural gas, biofuel,LPG) is the key to their short to medium term broad commercialization. The development of direct HC SOFCs still meets lot of challenges and problems arising from the fact that the anode materials operate under severe conditions leading to low activity towards reforming and oxidation reactions, f ...
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Working towards Mass Manufactured, Low Cost and Robust SOFC stacks (MMLRC=SOFC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

Lightweight SOFC stacks are currently being developed for stationary applications such as residential CHP units, for automotive applications such as APU and for portable devices. They supply electrical efficiencies of up to 60%, a high fuel flexibility, being able to operate on syn-gas from Diesel reforming as well as LPG, methane or hydrogen, and promising costs due to greatly reduced amounts of ...
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Low Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells for micro-CHP applications (LOTUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

Since the requirements of micro-CHP systems in the European Union are becoming clearer, the technologies to reach these goals are emerging steadily. The high intrinsic electrical efficiency and the capability to be directly connected to existing heating circuits, make solid oxide fuel cells a preferred choice for this application. This proposal describes the project to build a prototype of a new g ...
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Robust Advanced Materials for metal Supported SOFC (RAMSES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2014,

"The RAMSES project aims at developing an innovative high performance, robust, durable and cost-effective Solid Oxide Fuel Cell based on the Metal Supported Cell concept i.e. the deposition of thin ceramic electrodes and electrolyte on a porous metallic substrate. Both planar and tubular cells will be developed. By considering advanced materials tailored for this cell design, such cells will be ab ...
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Advanced Electrolyser for Hydrogen Production with Renewable Energy Sources (ADEL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The ADEL project (ADvanced ELectrolyser for Hydrogen Production with Renewable Energy Sources) proposes to develop a new steam electrolyser concept named Intermediate Temperature Steam Electrolysis (ITSE) aiming at optimizing the electrolyser life time by decreasing its operating temperature while maintaining satisfactory performance level and high energy efficiency at the level of the complete sy ...
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