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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 hydrogen liquefaction process is composed of the following main technological sub-systems: Pre-cooling, Cooling, Coldbox (Heat exchangers, ortho-para conversion), turbines and finally boil-off gas management.
In terms of technical KPIs the project should aim at achieving the following:
- Reducing the H2 liquefaction energy intensity to 8-10kWh/kg H2
- Reducing H2 liquefaction cost to <1.5€/kg
Detailed Call Description
There are currently various challenges associated to the production of low-cost liquid hydrogen:
- Only few developments working on optimising hydrogen cycles at a high TRL have been proposed;
- Current hydrogen energy consumption for liquefaction is around 10 to 12 kWh/kg equivalent to 35% of the hydrogen energy content on LHV vs power basis;
- Market development and cost strategies need to be developed for viable business models to promote LH2 product as an effective way of transporting hydrogen or eventually as a fuel;
- There are no uniform standards and safety regulations for liquid hydrogen.
Proposals should also address the following economic and regulatory issues:
- The innovative concept should demonstrate a specific liquefaction cost at around 1 to 2 €/kg for a small scale unit;
- The project should define a suitable roadmap to prepare the deployment of low carbon liquid hydrogen solutions;
- The project should address safety aspects of supplies of liquid hydrogen (infrastructure aspects);
- Propose accurate business models for the scale-up of the industrial phase for commercialisation purposes; etc.
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Thematic Categories
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions