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novel CATAlyst structures employing Pt at Ultra Low and zero loadings for auTomotive MEAs (CATAPULT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Germany,Finland,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FCH-JU-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4679600.54
EU funding (EUR): 2255690.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

Project CATAPULT proposes to develop a radically new concept for automotive PEM fuel cell catalysts based on novel structures wherein platinum is deposited as an extremely thin layer ( <3 nm) on corrosion resistant supports of various morphologies, including particulate, nanofibrous and nanotubular, as well as "nano-hierarchical" combinations of these. In this approach, platinum is deposited using atomic layer deposition as thin, contiguous and conformal films that allow development of extended platinum or platinum alloy surfaces. Non-PGM catalysts will be developed via the tailored synthesis of metal-organic frameworks for their use either sacrificially to generate the C/N support for non-PGM species, or directly as a non-PGM catalyst. Hybrid ultra-low Pt/non-PGM catalysts and catalyst layers will also be investigated as a further novel approach. Increased fundamental understanding from supporting theoretical modelling will provide guidance to the strategies developed experimentally and to the down-selection of the new corrosion-resistant supports and their supported catalyst designs. Down-selected catalysts will be integrated into novel electrode designs and into MEAs incorporating state of the art membranes best adapted for automotive power trains, and evaluated according to protocols reproducing the stresses encountered in a drive cycle. The candidate MEA best satisfying performance and stability targets will be scaled-up for further assessment at large MEA and short stack levels. Techno-economic assessment will consider the scale up processability, and the impact of MEA performance and durability on stack costs. The well-balanced partnership, comprising two large industries (including an automotive OEM), two SMEs, two research organisations and two universities, will ensure close cooperation between industrial and institute partners, know-how, experience, research leadership, complementarity and industrial relevance.

Keywords: low pt loading meas,non-pgm catalysts,corrosion resistant supports,modelling,mea development and testing,industrial pilot level scale-up,short stack,techno-economic assessment
Pre-Normative Research for Thermodynamic Optimization of Fast Hydrogen Transfer (HYTRANSFER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: Germany,France,United Kingdom,Norway,Germany,European organisations area
Call:  (FCH-JU-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2016-12-31
Duration (months): 43.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3095956.0
EU funding (EUR): 1608684.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Hydrogen transfer concerns filling and emptying processes. Filling generates heat which can lead to overheating of composite pressure vessels especially when filling transportable containers or fuelling vehicles. Emptying generates cooling. Excessive cooling may occur during delivery of hydrogen from a trailer. The HyTransfer project will address both issues. As hydrogen vehicle refuelling is the leading application the project will thus focus on fast filling of composite tanks. To avoid overheating, the speed of transfer can be limited or the gas cooled prior to introduction. Both impacts performance and costs, temperature control is thus essential for optimization of gas transfer. Temperature limits of transfer can apply to material, that must not exceed design temperature (e.g. 85°C), or to gas that must not exceed a specified limit. HyTransfer aims to develop and experimentally validate a practical approach for optimizing means of temperature control during fast transfers of compressed hydrogen to meet the specified temperature limit (gas or material), taking into account the system’s thermal behaviour. Whereas existing approaches focus on gas temperature and specify gas pre-cooling temperature, this project will be based on the implementation of a simple model predicting gas and wall temperature to determine the amount of cooling required to avoid exceeding the limit temperature, and on the specification of cooling energy, rather than a fixed pre-cooling temperature. The relevant parameters obtained from a simple test for characterizing the thermal behaviour of a tank system will also be determined. This project aims to create conditions for an uptake of the approach by international standards, for wide-scale implementation into refuelling protocols. The new approach will be thus evaluated and its benefits quantified with regards to performance, costs, and safety. Finally, recommendations for implementation in international standards will be proposed.

Keywords: hydrogen transfer,fast fuelling,pre-cooling,composite tank,rcs,resource efficiency,modelling,overheating,overcooling,pressure,temperature limit,gas,trailer,vessels,fcev,hrs
Steel Coatings For Reducing Degradation in SOFC (SCORED 2:0)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Finland,Switzerland,Italy,United Kingdom
Call:  (FCH-JU-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-07-01
End date: 2017-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3792559.2
EU funding (EUR): 2183023.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The economic viability and market place entry of SOFC power systems is directly dependent on their longevity and production costs. Adequate operational life spans can only be achieved, if the performance degradation of the SOFC stacks and Balance of Plant components over time can be considerably reduced. At the same time, manufacturing costs have to be lowered dramatically for the specifically necessary components securing the long component service life. As of now, chromium deactivation of the cathode is considered one of the major contributions to the degradation of SOFC stacks. Since chromium steels, on the other hand, are an essential material in reducing stack costs, methods have to be found to make best use of their advantages whilst avoiding chromium transport to the cathode. Balance of Plant components upstream of the cathode also contribute to the chromium immission, a fact that is often overseen and requires protective coatings also for any components situated in the air flow pathway to the cathode. Finally, the build-up of oxide scales will influence the electrical resistance and contact resistance thus requiring coatings for the stabilisation of the contacts on both cathode and anode side of the SOFC cell. Within the project Real-SOFC first steps have been made towards developing suitable combinations of steels and coatings. It has become apparent that any steel will require a coating in order to sufficiently reduce chromium evaporation and oxide layer build-up, and also sustain a low surface resistivity. More recently, a variety of new coating techniques have been reported that require further evaluation under SOFC relevant operating conditions. The project proposed here aims to further elaborate on the production of coated steel components showing markedly improved properties with regard to chromium release, electrical resistivity and scale growth. The focus of ScoReD 2:0 will be on choosing optimised combinations of protective layer materials with different steel qualities (including low-cost options) and analysing the influence, practicality and cost of different methods of coating. Also in understanding which factors influence the efficacy of such coatings.

Keywords: protective coatings,sofc interconnects,ald,aps,dip coating
Automotive Fuel Cell Stack Cluster Initiative for Europe II (AUTO-STACK CORE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,France,European organisations area,Switzerland,Sweden,France,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FCH-JU-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-05-01
End date: 2017-07-31
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 14673625.27
EU funding (EUR): 7757273.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

Several automotive OEMs have announced plans for the commercialization of fuel cell vehicles from 2014/15. Industrial partnerships such as H2-Mobility in Germany, the UK or Hydrogen Highway in Scandinavia are working to establish the required initial H2- infrastructure While this is a clear signal for the functional readiness of fuel cell technology in automotive application, durability, efficiency, power density and cost of the fuel cell stack need further advancements and in some cases substantial improvement in years to come. Industrial fuel cell development in Europe lacks both, state-of-the-art stack products and competitive stack suppliers for automotive application. Only a few European component suppliers can deliver mature state-of-the-art stack components (MEA, bipolar plates) with the requested specifications. “Auto-Stack Core” establishes a coalition with the objective to develop best-of-its-class automotive stack hardware with superior power density and performance while meeting commercial target cost. The project consortium combines the collective expertise of automotive OEMs, component suppliers, system integrators and research institutes and thus removes critical disconnects between stakeholders. The technical concept is based on the Auto-Stack assessments which were carried out under the FCH JU Grant Agreement No. 245 142 and reflects the system requirements of major OEMs. It suggests a platform concept to substantially improve economies of scale and reduce critical investment cost for individual OEMs by sharing the same stack hardware for different vehicles and vehicle categories as well as selected other industrial applications thus addressing one of the most critical challenges of fuel cell commercialization. Presence of key industrial players in the project and strict orientation towards industrial requirements shall facilitate commercial utilization of the project results. The project is of strategic importance for European competitiveness.

Keywords: automotive pefc stack
Development of H2 Safety Expert Groups and due diligence tools for public awareness and trust in hydrogen technologies and applications. (H2TRUST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy,France,Netherlands,Spain
Call:  (FCH-JU-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 21.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1208415.82
EU funding (EUR): 796678.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Although many predictions for the hydrogen economy in the last decade have proven optimistic, the maturity of it is now increasingly evident by the substantial investments in R&D, demonstration and industrialisation made by public and private institutions in Europe. The USA and Japan are leading the hydrogen based energy infrastructure, becoming a mainstream solution for society’s need to transition to clean, renewable and widely available energy sources. To ensure that non-technical barriers to the deployment of Fuel Cell and Hydrogen (FCH) technologies are properly addressed, the H2TRUST project has been created by a team of highly experienced and qualified industry and academic experts with the following objectives: - Assess industry efforts to assure FCH technology is safe and that there is an adequate regulation, hazard awareness, incident readiness and ability to respond to public concerns. - Hazard and risk assessment in the FCH industry in each of the main application areas (H2 Production, Storage and Distribution, Mobility and Vehicles, Non-vehicles and residential power generation). - Systematically map safety issues and assess how they are addressed. - Compile information demonstrating safety due diligence and best practices. - Seek input from previous, on-going and upcoming Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) demonstrations and pre-normative and training projects and from similar international activities. - Make recommendations for further safety efforts by FCH community. - Develop communications network to manage public reaction to incidents and give documented responses. - Disseminate the results so as to create a long lasting culture of safety practices in the industry and a legacy of tools and knowledge serving to reinforce best practices and assure public confidence. H2TRUST is a response to the FCH JU call for proposals in their Annual Implementation Plan of 2012, page 101(Topic SP1-JTI-FCH.2012.5.5: Assessment of safety issues related to fuel cells and hydrogen applications).

Keywords: fch assessment,safety,fuel,cell,hydrogen regulation codes standards jti fch ju non technical barriers,h2trust european hydrogen association
SUpport to SAfety ANalysis of Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies (SUSANA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Partnership: FCH (Art-185)
Countries involved: Germany,United Kingdom,Greece,European organisations area,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,France
Call:  (FCH-JU-2012-1, 2012)
Start date: 2013-09-01
End date: 2016-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2119669.9
EU funding (EUR): 1159124.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The support action addresses the topic SP1-JTI-FCH.2012.5.2 “CFD model evaluation protocol for safety analysis of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies”. SUSANA will critically review the state-of-the-art in physical and mathematical modelling of phenomena and scenarios relevant to hydrogen safety, i.e. releases and dispersion, ignitions and fires, deflagrations and detonations, etc.; compile a guide to best practices in use of CFD for safety analysis of FCH systems and infrastructure; update verification and validation procedures; generate database of verification problems; develop model validation database; perform benchmarking; and finally create the CFD model Evaluation Protocol built on these documents and project activities. A website will provide public access to all project outcomes. The protocol will facilitate use of CFD as a cost-effective contemporary tool for inherently safer design of FCH systems and facilities in Europe. It will be developed for all stakeholders directly involved in use of CFD and those who perform the evaluation of CFD safety analysis done by others, including but not limited to safety engineers and technology developers, regulators and public safety officials involved in permitting process, etc. The consortium is composed of key players in the field of modelling and numerical simulations relevant to hydrogen safety science and engineering from research institutions, academia and industry. The expert group is a powerful project instrument with open membership to maximise the outreach of the project outcomes and involve stakeholders in the protocol use at as early stages as possible. Experts will be invited to participate in online forum, benchmarking, attend events organised by the project. Dissemination activities will include workshops and seminars with invitation of CFD users and representatives of permitting authorities through different channels, including IA HySafe, IEA HIA Task 31, EHA, national and international projects, etc

Keywords: support to cfd,protocols,safety analysis,benchmarking,hydrogen,fuel cells,cfd models,phenomena modelling,validation of models,database,best practice
Enhanced Power Pilot Line - EPPL (EPPL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
Action type: Collaborative project
Partnership: ENIAC (Art-185)
Countries involved: Austria,Austria,Austria,Austria,Austria,Austria,Austria,Germany,Germany,Germany,Germany,Netherlands,France,France,France,France,Portugal,Germany,Germany,Germany,Italy,Portugal
Call:  (ENIAC-2012-2, 2012)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 74818528.0
EU funding (EUR): 11222780.0
Participants: 32
Project status: CLOSED

A sustainable and competitive European power semiconductor industry is essential to support the megatrend developments formulated in the Europe 2020 strategy - climate change, energy security, food security, and health and aging population. In practically all these areas, power semiconductors play a vital role. Thus, it is of paramount importance to defend and further extend Europe’s leading position in both power manufacturing science(s) and the corresponding application domains. Maintaining these core competencies clearly requires a major, comprehensive and carefully coordinated pan-national innovation effort. Consequently, EPPL will combine Research, Development and Innovation (R&D&I) efforts with demonstration activities addressing market readiness by industrial implementation in an early stage. Thus, EPPL aims at making a decisive step forward to strengthen Europe’s leading position in power semiconductor technologies and More-than-Moore manufacturing capabilities, relating in particular to possibly energy-efficient electronic solutions. 2nd generation power semiconductor devices fabricated in European leading pilot lines based on 300mm wafer production are the scope of the project, for which manufacturing excellence, cost competitiveness and challenging applications are critical boundary conditions.

Keywords: manufacturing,pilot line,power semiconductor
High Strength Aluminium Alloy parts by Selective Laser Melting (HI-STA-PART)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2012-02, 2012)
Start date: 2013-02-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 120646.52
EU funding (EUR): 89711.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The Hi-StA-Part project aims to demonstrate the viability to produce aerospace grade aluminium parts using Direct Manufacture (DM) – specifically the process of Selective Laser Melting (SLM). The project will demonstrate that components and parts can be manufactured with a significant weight reduction, to the required mechanical properties for aerospace applications. The strategy of the project is to investigate the SLM processing of existing 7xxx (7075) series alloy powder and also using AlSc (Scalmalloy ) material, which has been developed outside of the project, for processing by SLM. The 7075 Al alloy material will be used to build mechanical test specimens using a state of the art 1kW SLM system (by partner TWI). As part of this activity, we will investigate ‘part optimisation’; whereby part weight and materials usage can be minimised to show the true benefit of manufacturing by SLM. EADS Apworks will use their own procedures and SLM systems to produce tensile, fatigue and corrosion specimens using AlSc powder material. Throughout the project energy and raw material usage will be monitored, allowing a true and accurate comparison of the SLM process against existing manufacturing techniques to be undertaken as part of the project. By successfully achieving the aims of this project – we will demonstrate the potential for DM to manufacture Al alloy components to TRL 6. This will significantly help to maintain and improve the competiveness of the European aerospace sector.

Keywords: aluminium,selective laser melting,slm,light-weighting,fatigue
Ice volume changes of Icelandic ice caps in the last 75 years – a view from the air (ICEVOLUME)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Denmark
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-12-23
End date: 2015-12-22
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 230809.8
EU funding (EUR): 230809.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The ICEVOLUME project aims to quantify the ice volume changes of Icelandic ice caps from the 1930s to the present through time series of Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). The DEMs will be produced by stereophotogrammetry on historical oblique and vertical aerial photographs. We already have access to a unique collection of aerial photographs and the new LiDAR DEMs from 2008-2012 that provide us with the necessary raw data for DEM production. Difference DEMs (dDEMs) will be produced in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and analyzed together with orthophotographs that visually shows the glacier changes. We aim to interpret the causes of the detected ice cap changes by co-analyzing existing meteorological data, glacier surge records, ice-marginal measurements, and other datasets. The proposed project will deliver a 3D view of Icelandic ice cap volume changes through the last c. 75 years. This will significantly advance our current understanding which is mainly based on ice-marginal measurements and point measurements of ablation and accumulation. The value of similar historical aerial photographs for quantifying ice volume changes over the last 80 years has recently been highlighted by the host institution in Nature Geoscience in a study of SE-Greenlandic glaciers. The host institution is the Palaeoenvironment and Climate group at the Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark. The host provides excellent facilities for the proposed photogrammetry and remote sensing work, and has an excellent publication record in this field. The best facilities and expertise required for this project are in place and provide the optimal chance of achieving the goals.

Keywords: glacier,glaciology,iceland,photogrammetry,aerial photograph,remote sensing,digital elevation model,ice cap,climate change,holocene,geology,quaternary
Catalysts for Asymmetric Reactivity of Alcohols as Electrophiles: A Career Integration Project (CAR-CHASE)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Life-long training and career development
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: France
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-CIG, 2012)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

CAR-CHASE offers a first class career integration program for an experienced researcher in the context of a high-impact research program at the interface of catalysis, dynamic covalent chemistry, asymmetric organic synthesis and green chemistry. Complex chemical systems that self-organize will be developed that enable direct asymmetric reactions of allylic and benzylic alcohols and produce water as the only byproduct.

Keywords: c112 catalysis,c114 chemical reactions,c141 organic chemistry,c111 method development in chemistry,c136 homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis