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Today, the HyFlow consortium held its second GA online, looking back at six months of work and reflecting on the upcoming steps.

At the lab scale, innovative electrodes have been synthesized at Stargate Hydrogen and will be soon tested at Fraunhofer IFAM Dresden and UCLouvain. The latter will use its facilities dedicated to high electrolyte flows to put these electrodes to the test. We have good reasons to expect good performance, since these materials are optimized both on the structural and electrocatalytic sides.

An extensive CFD simulation campaign at UCLouvain has led to promising stack designs which will be implemented in their pilot scale electolyser. In parallel, Fraunhofer IFAM Dresden is adapting its pilot plant towards high electrolyte flows, a task which is certainly not straightforward but which also holds immense potential.

JEMA is preparing technical solutions to integrate next-generation current sources to various electrochemical processes used within HyFlow. Jentec also comes as a high-level technical support for the pilot plant adaptations mentioned above.

The project calendar is unfolding is a very satisfying way, boosting motivation to achieve major breakthroughs in the field of alkaline electrolysis. Stay tuned for more advances!

On 29.01.2026 in Dresden, the HyFlow project kick-off took place between the 5 members of its consortium: Stargate Hydrogen, Fraunhofer IFAM Dresden, UCLouvain, JEMA and Jentec. The HyFlow project was co-funded by the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP) of the European Union and local agencies.

Our consortium, composed of three companies, one university and one research center, is the ideal combination for the technical challenges that we will face for the next three years. The HyFlow project aims to significantly reduce investment and electricity costs of alkaline water electrolysis by demonstrating high performance (PEM-like) in industrial alkaline electrolysis stacks. The technical improvements behind this performance upgrade are not just little add-ons to classical stacks, they imply a complete re-design of existing echnologies, including flow-engineering of porous transport electrodes (PTEs) and advanced electrode coatings. This approach - already validated at lab-scale at UCLouvain - will be scaled up to industrial standarts in the framework of HyFlow.

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