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Programme Name
Programme Description
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (hereinafter “EuroHPC JU”), will contribute to the ambition of value creation in the Union with the overall mission to develop, deploy, extend and maintain in the Union an integrated world class supercomputing and quantum computing infrastructure and to develop and support a highly competitive and innovative High Performance Computing (HPC) ecosystem, extreme scale, power-efficient and highly resilient HPC and data technologies.
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Summary
A suitable portfolio of diverse technologies is needed to serve the expected growing demand for different applications and markets. Since hydrogen technologies will be deployed on a broad range of markets and scales, abundant and cheap renewable energy resources need to be used. Solar energy has by far the highest potential of all options. In this context, solar thermochemical cycles may contribute to complement the electrochemical solar hydrogen production. Proposals under this topic aim to bring thermochemical cycles to the next stage of maturity.
Detailed Call Description
Proposals should consider the following:
- improvement of heat management via efficient heat recovery systems;
- improvement of coupling the process to a concentrating solar energy source (“solar interface”);
- shaping the solar field towards the needs of a chemical process;
- wherever possible, the coupling to heat storage;
- integration of smart control procedures as a central measure to incorporate aspects on digitalisation of the energy system;
- explore suitable options for decreasing the production cost through hybrid renewable supply;
- develop suitable 3-dimensional structuring of key materials, like redox materials, to achieve high production rates and high reactor efficiencies through optimal heat and mass transfer in the reactor;
- ensure stability and performance of key components and related properties of their constituent functional materials;
- consider the circular economy aspects such as the recycling/regeneration of the materials and low content of Critical Raw Materials;
- optimised fluids handling, including the minimisation of inert gas consumption, the efficiency of gas separation operations, and auxiliary power needs;
- describe and validate upscaling strategies of the process and all major components.
Call Total Budget
Thematic Categories
- Energy
- Environment and Climate Change
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Large Enterprises
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Applicants should consider building on the breakthrough technologies and advance thermochemical processes developed in these projects.