About the Project

WP1 is focused on the organization and management of the Project to:

• Achieve time, quality and budget goals
• Ensure high-quality continuous reporting of progress
• Support dissemination activities
• Enable optimal exploitation of project results towards relevant market applications and parties.

WP2 is focused on documenting application specific requirements by:

• Defining Fuel cell system specific requirements
• Defining System design and optimization
• Generating Balance of Plant components specific requirements.

WP3 is focused on determining the state of the art high-power installation designs and identify associated challenges by:

• Simplifying the Fuel Cell system design and architecture to reduce complexity and costs while increasing the efficiency and gravimetric power density of high-power installations
• Optimizing the Fuel Cell system design to enable modular upscaling to reach multi-MW scale
• Supporting the definition of the concepts via qualitative cost analysis in early phases.

WP4 is focused on:

• Modelling high-power Balance of Plant components under stationary and transient conditions for different FC system applications.
• Using developed models to perform MW-scale system simulation and validation of different fuel system concepts in simulation environment.
• Performing a Trade-off analysis between system efficiency, operational bandwidth, and system complexity for waste heat recovery under stationary conditions.
• Developing a Hybrid energy management system for scalable multi-power level Fuel Cell systems, with aging constraints and remaining useful life estimation.
• Developing automatic detection of the system architecture and use case with control strategy adaptation for plug and play application scoping.

WP5 is focused on:

• Studying the Hydrogen Recirculation Pump architecture
• Designing a scalable concept & prototype for an electrical HRP and ejector, with a primary focus on aviation optimization specifically for the required power range (minimum 250 kW)
• Identifying the H2 leakage sensor position at single or multiple sub system of FC system and developing it to meet reliability, functional safety and application specific guidelines.
• Performing a trade-off study for scalability to run collaboratively at the system level.

WP6 is focused on the development of:

• Compressor: System integration, with a newly developed powerful motor and a health indicator interface considered as key enablers for lighter weight and smaller package with longer service intervals.
• Humidifier: a novel and innovative design offering facilitated upscaling, footprint and weight reduction and increased robustness.
• Water separators: Evaluation of competing concepts and development of a guideline depending on application needs and options of system integration.
• Cathode Air Filter: Modular and scalable design allowing to separate filtration from adsorption needs for different kind of applications and power levels. The development further aims to combine different materials to enhance the lifetime.
• Resonator: assessment of reducing noise potential for scaled-up and integrated BoPs of the air path to improve user acceptance level for the H2UpScale solutions.

WP7 is focused on:

• Fabricating a modular 3D printed H2 dissipator with an efficiency above 50 %. (minimum 250 kW system)
• Developing an innovative cooling formulation with enhanced heat transfer capacities, targeting a reduction on waste heat generation of 20%
• Obtaining a 20 % increased durability of cooling system (coolant and H2 dissipator) through the utilization of an ion filter.
• Re-using of a 50 % of the heat captured by the coolant within the system.

WP8 is focused on:

• Developing a Hardware-in-the-Loop framework and test protocols used to experimentally validate selected Balance of Plant components.
• Realizing the HiL test bench and integrate the selected novel BoP components
• Executing performance and durability tests of full-scale novel BoP components in a climate-controlled environment using emulated operation of a ≥ 250 kW PEMFC stack.
• Quantifying BoP component performance, validating novel control strategies, critical and auxiliary functions.
• Analysing results, evaluate and assess the novel BoP components against performance targets, test bench data from suppliers and off-the-shelf counterparts.
• Performing a techno-economic and impact analysis of the developed BoP components.