ADVANCE PEM - Advanced High Pressure and Cost-Effective PEM Water Electrolysis Technology

与下游气体压缩相比，从电解水裂解直接生产高压氢气可以节省相关量的能量。该项目的目的是开发一种新型聚合物电解质膜（PEM）电解槽，能够在非常高的压力（200 bar）下生产氢气，从而降低压缩后的能耗。另一个目标是开发一种具有成本效益的技术，以实现PEM电解槽的大规模应用。通过最大限度地减少关键原材料、开发廉价的涂层双极板和以高生产率运行电解槽，同时确保高效率（约80%，相对于HHV）和安全运行，实现了资本成本的显著降低。ADVANCEPEM的目标是在材料、电池堆和系统层面开发一套突破性的解决方案，将氢气压力提高到200 bar，将基本负载的电流密度提高到5 A cm-2，同时保持标称能耗。

Direct production of highly pressurised hydrogen from electrolytic water splitting can allow saving relevant amounts of energy compared to down-stream gas compression. The aim of this project is to develop a novel polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyser able to produce hydrogen at very high pressure (200 bar) thus reducing the post-compression energy consumption. Another goal is to develop a cost-effective technology allowing to achieve large-scale application of PEM electrolysers. A significant reduction of capital costs is achieved by critical raw materials minimisation, developing cheap coated bipolar plates and operating the electrolyser at a high production rate while assuring high efficiency (about 80% vs. HHV) and safe operation. ADVANCEPEM aims at developing a set of breakthrough solutions at materials, stack and system levels to increase hydrogen pressure to 200 bar and current density to 5 A cm-2 for the base load, while keeping the nominal energy consumption.