JRA1 - Facility Improvements for Investigation of Basic Hydrogen Properties and Material Behavior

The goal of the JRA1 is to accomplish the following tasks:

•  Facility improvements and measurement to produce hypothetical hydrogen accident scenarios
  • Improved measurements to produce controllably defined gradient mixtures
  • Improvement of measurement capacities for multiphase, multi component cold jets and spills
• Facility and experiments improvement for safety assessment of materials behavior using hydrogen sensors
• Improving and integrating the capacities of hydrogen sensors in testing facilities
• Assessment of hydrogen pressure material and component damage following rapid pressure drop
• Development of measurements and analysis techniques for fuel quality

JRA2 - Facility Improvements for Investigations of Components and Systems of the Hydrogen Energy Chain

The goal of the JRA2 is to accomplish the following tasks:

• Improvement of alkaline electrolyser installation in the power range of 0.5 to 5kW
• Extension of metallic vessel embrittlement test chamber to moist hydrogen
• Facility and measurement improvements for in-situ investigations of PEM fuel cells materials and components
  • In situ spectroscopy techniques with enhanced spatial resolution and enhanced operation conditions
  • Visualization and verification of fluid characteristics in an operating fuel cell
• Facility and measurement improvements for investigation of high temperature fuel cells components and systems
  • Test facility for high power testing of fuel cells
  • New characterization concepts for fuel cell degradation
• Improvement of test facilities for measuring the impact of fuel gas treatment on system degradation
  • Test facilities for steam reforming
  • Test facilities for HT FC multi fuel feeding and poisoning

JRA3 - Methods Protocols Benchmarking

The goal of the JRA3 is to accomplish the following tasks:

• Harmonised methodology for testing and improving fire resistance of onboard pressurized hydrogen storage
  • Harmonised methodology for testing of pressure relief devices
  • Fire resistance of hydrogen storage tanks and bonfire procedure
• Harmonised measurement for investigations of hydrogen solid storage materials and components
  • Harmonised measurement for investigations of hydrogen solid storage materials
  • Towards safety assessment of hydrogen storage materials and systems
• Harmonised measurements for investigations of PEMFC fuel cell components
  • Development of reliable reference electrodes for fuel cells
  • Improved test protocol for durability testing of bipolar plates
• Harmonisation of test procedure to study SOFC degradation upon application orientated conditions
• Round-robin exercise of the fuel quality measurements

JRA4 - Cyber Laboratory

The goal of the JRA4 is to accomplish the following tasks:

• Identification of existent physical models and numerical codes
• Round-robin testing
• Development of new models addressing scientific bottlenecks in priority areas
• Pre-test simulations of experiments on facilities of H2FC European Infrastructure
• Database of high quality experimental reference data for model validation
• Software suite for hydrogen and fuel cell systems