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H24NEWAGE

Relevant project information

Dates

January 2021 – December 2024

Project website

https://h24newage.com/

Role of CIRCE

Partner

Grant agreement number

CER-20211002

Funded by

LOGO CDTI Y GOBIERNO DE ESPAÑA

Description and objectives

The Cervera H24NEWAGE network aims to develop technological capabilities and their industrial transfer to bring to national companies both knowledge and new solutions to improve their competitiveness in the new incipient hydrogen market, and to create a new hydrogen era in Spain that contributes to achieve the objectives of carbon emissions reduction.

H24NEWAGE would respond to the Priority Technologies of “Development of new technologies and equipment for H2 production, storage and distribution” defined by Cervera within its “Energy Transition” Thematic Area. H24NEWAGE pivots on three main axes:

  1. Technological development:

    • Hydrogen production by electrolysis
    • Production of renewable hydrogen through other technologies (reforming of renewable sources, gasification, pyrolysis, biological/biochemical processes, etc.). ).
    • Hydrogen storage.
    • Hydrogen distribution.
    • Integration.
    • Safety, sustainability and certification.

     

  2. Demonstrator: The objective of the demonstrator is to become a network of infrastructures to provide service to companies (and other agents) and to demonstrate the hydrogen technologies developed in the project, particularly those related to production, storage and distribution.
     
  3. Industrial transfer through training: H24NEWAGE aims to become a benchmark for the Spanish business fabric, on which to promote a positive impact, facilitating a bidirectional and adaptable transfer of knowledge, based on an understanding of the interests and needs of companies.

Value proposition

One of the objectives of the H24NewAge network is to strengthen research and development capabilities in Cervera technology in the areas of hydrogen production by electrolysis and other technologies; hydrogen storage; distribution; integration; and safety, sustainability and certification.

The H24NEWAGE demonstrator will encompass the individual demonstrators located at each of the partners' facilities.

Industry transfer through training will be focused on creating a reciprocal knowledge transfer environment between industry and the H24NEWAGE network to align their respective technological advances in order to facilitate the deployment of hydrogen technologies in different markets.

The H24NEWAGE demonstrator will be reinforced in the H2 production line by alternative technologies thanks to the infrastructure of CIRCE, as technological partner of the project, which will provide the following facilities to cover hydrogen production, purification and industrial use tests, including its distribution network.

In order to demonstrate the potential of hydrogen as an energy vector that brings flexibility to the grid, this infrastructure will be operated in the framework of an isolated microgrid based on the HIL concept and CIRCE's RTDS simulator, which in turn will be connected to a number of technologies available at CIRCE's facilities, including renewable generation systems, an electrolyzer, a fuel cell, and static and mobile storage systems.

Project partners

TECNALIA, CIRCE, CARTIF, AIN.