Project description
Paving the way to cost-effective upscaling of solid oxide electrolysis
Solid oxide electrolyser cells (SOECs) split water (H2O) into green hydrogen (H2) and oxygen, emission free. They can also be used in co-electrolysis of H2O and CO2 to produce syngas fuel while reducing CO2 emissions. Widespread uptake of this promising technology will require further performance enhancements and cost reductions, together with large-scale and cost-effective manufacturing processes. The EU-funded OUTFOX project will address these challenges, paving the way to solid oxide electrolysers for industrial-scale systems that cost-effectively produce green H2 and are compatible with mass manufacturing lines. Innovations will be tested in two campaigns with two different cell stack configurations over a total of more than 4 000 hours.
Objective
The main aim of OUTFOX is to remove scale as limiting factor in the deployment of SOEL technologies, while proving their potential to become the preferred option for green hydrogen production. By combining experimental results up to 80 kW scales with identification of optimal cell and system designs, OUTFOX will prepare SOEL for industrial scale systems of 100+ MW with an LCOH as low as €2.7/kg hydrogen and applicability to mass manufacturing lines.
The industrially-driven OUTFOX consortium will combine expertise on cell, stack and module development, manufacturing, and full system evaluation to advance the maturity of SOEL and contribute to the targets of the Clean Hydrogen JU SRIA. OUTFOX will achieve current densities of at least 0.85 A/cm2 through the use of cells with 25% less thickness than current high volume state-of-the-art, improving sustainability through reducing total materials requirements. Scale-up will be approached from two sides: (1) development and validation of cells with geometric areas up to 800 cm2 that are compatible with at-scale manufacturing techniques, and (2) validation of optimized design concepts with increased numbers of stacks per module. The partners will validate high current density operation with reference scale (144 cm2), industrial scale (>300 cm2) and next-generation cells (900 cm2) in single repeating units, short stacks of 15 cells, and 80 kW prototype systems, leading to more than 10,000 hours of SOEL operation.
Two separate 80 kW testing campaigns with two different stack configurations and a total of more than 4000 operating hours, to be tested onsite at the Shell facilities in Amsterdam, will go beyond the scope of the call text to provide a comprehensive validation of the OUTFOX technology, thus providing key data for design of a full scale 100+ MW SOEL system, including the module configuration and all balance of plant requirements, and preparing the technology for a multi-MW demonstration following the project end
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HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility
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HORIZON-JU-RIA - HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2022-1
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2595 DA Den Haag
Netherlands
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