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What is ENDURE?

ENDURE is a Clean Hydrogen Partnership funded research and innovation project in the field of alkaline water electrolysis. Its consortium is composed of highly recognized partners, including research centers, companies and a university.

 

The ENDURE project will result in an innovative electrolyser stack design with innovative technological components. ENDURE will yield in higher durability thanks to decreased degradation rate of alkaline electrolysis cells and stacks via electrode improvements, design and material innovation on stack level and via the development of accelerated testing procedures. By the end of the project the sub-components and the short stack of at least 5 cells will be tested, validated and demonstrated at a lab scale.

 

The main objective of ENDURE is to improve the current density and stability of electrolysers bringing the performance and durability of alkaline electrolysers to a new level. The number of publicly available durability data on alkaline electrolysers is scarce; therefore, the efforts will contribute to enriching the understanding of current density and stability of electrolysers for the scientific community. More specifically, the goal is to drastically decrease the degradation rate and increase the efficiency of alkaline cells and stacks via the development of hierarchically structured flow-engineered monolithic porous transport electrodes, via design/material improvements on stack level, and via accelerated testing procedures.

Our commitments

Greener, carbon free Europe

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Connected Europe

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Smarter Europe

In line with the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) of the Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, the ENDURE project contributes to environmental sustainability by improving the performance and durability of alkaline electrolysers. The key impact of ENDURE is drastically decreased degradation rate and improved performance of the alkaline electrolysis cells and stacks thanks to hierarchically structured flow-engineered monolithic porous transport electrodes (PTEs) as well as high performance and PGM-free catalyst coating for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). As a means to reduce the OPEX, ENDURE has a dual performance target: decreasing the energy consumption of alkaline electrolysers (high-efficiency operating point) and simultaneously targeting lower OPEX by increasing current density (high-current operating point).

Grant details

  • Funded by the Clean Hydrogen Partnership and its members

  • Grant Agreement: 101137925

  • Start date: 01.01.2024

  • Duration: 36 months

  • Budget: € 2 495 480

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