His unrivalled SOEC/SOFC technology produces hydrogen utilizing high-temperature electrolys (SOEC mode), offering the advantages of high efficiency and low cost. In addition, it is also reversible, which means that it can operate in fuel cell (SOFC) mode to produce electricity and heat.
What is a SOEC/SOFC stack ?
The stack represents the core element of the high temperature electrolysis techno-logy. it is made of several cells stacked together, made of ceramic materials, where the hydrogen and oxygen are pro-duced, at 700°C.
This type of high-temperature electrolysis is unique in that it is reversible. In other words, the stack can also operate as a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), which pro-duces electricity and heat from a fuel that can be hydrogen, but not only! SOFCs can operate of natural gas, biogas, am-monia, or reformates of other fuels, inclu-ding liquid fuels.
What’s new ?
Currently, our hydrogen production R&D projects are fo-cusing on :
- a new-generation stack (6 times more power) with 3 times more cells each having an electrochemically active area 2 times larger than current ones ;
- multi-stack module development ;
- specific improvements to operation in fuel cell, reversible, and co-electrolysis modes.