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Published on
27 September 2024
Updated on
27 September 2024
ENDURE general assembly on 24.09.24
Nine months after our kick-off meeting in Tallinn, the ENDURE consortium had its second physical general assembly in Dresden, hosted by our project partner Fraunhofer IFAM. The meeting took place this Tuesday, i.e. the day before the 7th IFAM workshop on Advanced Alkaline Electrolysis, giving the opportunity for the ENDURE consortium members to attend too.
What a wonderful meeting! Results flowing in all directions, ideas sparkling, growing and coalescing like hydrogen bubbles in a potassium hydroxide solution. Honesty, rigor, openness, involvement from every partner. What a consortium.
And what a constructive week! Thanks to the IFAM team, for the organisation of both the GA and the workshop. Now let's move forward together and keep on pushing alkaline electrolysis to new performance standarts.
Published on
26 September 2024
Updated on
27 September 2024
The relevance of accelerated stress testing in the EU
EU projects like ENDURE typically last a few years. Technology breakthroughs are typically demonstrated using state of the art materials, but what about long-term performance degradation? Is it really possible to address this crucial topic in such a short time frame?
The answer is yes, thanks to Accelerated Stress Testing (AST) protocols developed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. In its latest version, titled "EU harmonised accelerated stress testing protocols for low-temperature water electrolyser" by T. Malkow and A. Pilenga, the AST publication details details all the relevant parameters for such tests. Following these protocols is crucial for comparison of performance degradation results between the three main low-temperature water electrolysis technologies.
The ENDURE projects fully integrates these protocols in its stack testing activities. As a matter of fact, ENDURE project partners Fundación Hidrógeno Aragón, Stargate Hydrogen, Fraunhofer IFAM as well as the ENDURE consortium as a whole provided input for the development of this document.
More information on this document HERE.
Published on
13 September 2024
Updated on
26 September 2024
From NEXTAEC to ENDURE: A Breakthrough in Alkaline Electrolysis with Bi-Layer Foam Electrodes
The EU H2020 NEXTAEC projet - Materials for Next Generation Alkaline Electrolysers, Grant no. 862509 - ended about six months ago. Just like in the present ENDURE project, UCLouvain was involved in the consortium as an academic partner, focusing on the development of new electrode designs.
NEXTAEC was the cradle for the concept of laterally-graded, bi-layer foam electrodes for alkaline electrolysis. These electrodes combine high activity and efficient bubble removal in a unique way, so unique that we are proud to announce that we made it to Nature Communications!
You can find the article HERE.
These bi-layer foam electrodes were the basis for the new concepts of porous transport electrodes currently developed within the ENDURE project. Such a strong synergy between successive EU projects is a sign of significant breakthrough.