ADVANCE PEM - Advanced High Pressure and Cost-Effective PEM Water Electrolysis Technology
Lead Participant:
HSSMI TRADING LIMITED
Abstract
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.
Lead Participant | Project Cost | Grant Offer |
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HSSMI TRADING LIMITED | £275,016 | £ 275,016 |
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INNOVATE UK |
People |
ORCID iD |
Torquil Landen (Project Manager) |