Last 17th of November we celebrated the official KoM of the AIHRE project ‘Analysis and Promotion of Renewable H2 in the POCTEP region’ at the premises of CIDAUT, coordinator of the project.
AIHRE is a 3-year project funded with 1.5 million euros by the Interreg Spain – Portugal Programme (POCTEP). Its objective is the creation of a new cooperation network for research and transfer in the design, operation, management and integration of energy systems based on renewable hydrogen of great interest for implementation in the Poctep area in Spain and Portugal. This network will promote the economic development of the POCTEP region around the green hydrogen value chain in industry. To this end, the AIHRE project aims at strengthening and consolidating research capacities in the POCTEP territory, identifying solutions for the application of renewable hydrogen value chains and promoting knowledge and tools for the implementation of a renewable hydrogen economy in the Poctep area.
The consortium is made up of nine partners, 5 Spanish: CIDAUT, CTA (Technological Corporation of Andalusia), University of Seville, National Institute of Aerospace Technology “Esteban Terradas”, ITG Technological Institute of Galicia and 4 Portuguese: INEGI, University of Porto, University of Évora and Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre. It is a highly complementary network including universities, technology centres and business clusters.
The kick-off meeting started with a brief presentation of each of the entities and a review of the objectives, tasks and results pursued by the project, as well as a review of the timeline for its achievement.
After the meeting, the consortium visited the CIDAUT facilities for the development of hydrogen technologies HyCid.
You can follow the AIHRE progress on our social media and soon on our website to learn more about this exciting initiative. AIHRE is ready to power green hydrogen!
Swedish sodium-ion battery developer ALTRIS was selected by InnoEnergy as one of the winning applications for a 2-year innovation project that aimed to scale up its cathode material for Na-ion batteries. The InnoEnergy’s Innovation Project initiative selects companies with sustainable energy innovations that have high commercial potential and provides them with investment funding.
FENNAC project focused on two areas: production scale-up / commercialisation of Fennac, as well as performance and safety testing. ALTRIS was thankful to be joined by two heavyweight partners to realise this project. Ahlstrom-Munksjö, a French manufacturer of fiber-based products that provided heat-resistant separators for the Fennac-based battery cells and CIDAUTthe Foundation for Transport and Energy Research and Development in Spain to develop and perform safety cell testing.
The project kicked off in July 2021 with an extensive feasibility study, which included analysis of the market, competitors, value chain, IP protection strategy, business model, and financial projections. The project finished in July 2023 and the outcomes of the project were presented including the design of the pilot production line, procurement of the required large-scale equipment, the design of the recycling system and the required equipment from Altris. CIDAUT also presented his extensively work on the development of test protocols for the safety of Fennac-based cells, with results from the cell components mechanical deformation analysis, the different abuse tests on the complete cells and the simulation models developed in the project to understand the severity of failures in the Na-ion batteries.
Outcomes from the FENNAC project were recently presented from ALTRIS with their commercial-sized sodium-ion battery cell with the highest energy density to date (160 Wh/kg). This achievement is made in a research partnership with NORTHVOLT, a Swedish supplier of high-quality battery cells, which intends to use sodium-ion technology as a foundation for its next-generation energy storage solutions in upcoming markets.
The 244th ECS meeting took place at Gothenburg (Sweden) from the 8th to the 12th of October. This international conference brings together the most active researchers in academia, government, and industry—professionals and students—to engage, discuss, and innovate in the areas of electrochemistry and solid-state science and related technologies. This is the premier destination for industry professionals to experience five days of learning, technical presentations, business development, and networking opportunities.
CIDAUT had the opportunity to present its work on the development of simulation models to improve battery safety. This work is focused on the lithium metal batteries (LMBs) safety studies including the investigation of predictive models to determine the critical parameters that would lead to potential failure and provide critical insights to understand the mechanical and internal short circuit behaviour of LMBs under mechanical abuse. Having a numerical model that correctly represents the cells and its response under different abuse tests could allow identifying main issues and helping on the cell design and chemistries to be used. To develop these models using LS-Dyna, it has been necessary to carry out studies of mechanical deformation on cell components and the complete cells. These studies have offered a better knowledge of the deformation of the inner components of the battery being useful to identify the mechanism that initiate short circuits under mechanical misuse conditions. Building numerical models for batteries requires experimental work that provides not only the data for mechanical behaviour of individual components (anode, cathode, separator, etc.), but also validation data for simulations of internal short circuit induced by mechanical abuse.
Automated driving is one of the hot topics in transport research and development. The evolution of advanced driving assistance systems, ADAS, is gradually increasing the automation level of vehicles on the roads. In a near future, highly automated vehicles will be present in the traffic, but the transformation will not be instantaneous and for the coming few decades, vehicles with different level of automation will share the infrastructure giving place to a transition phase where the human and the artificial intelligence will need to coexist.
CIDAUT, in the frame of European Project BERTHA, develops innovative driver behavioral models to improve safety and resiliency in connected, cooperative and automated mobility (CCAM). The aim of this development is to create a scalable and probabilistic driver behavioral model based mostly on Bayesian Belief Networks, able to cover different aspects of human driving performance at complex scenarios. The models will be implemented to validate technological and practical feasibility of different advanced driving assistance systems, ADAS.
The project is open source oriented and it will share the behavioral model with the scientific community in order to facilitate the easy growth of the project’s scope. An interrelated demonstration in also included to show this model approach as a reference to design human-like, easy predictable and acceptable behavior of automated driving functions in mixed traffic scenarios.
To tackle this ambitious objective, CIDAUT will cooperate with fourteen partners from seven countries and two continents, in the frame of BERTHA project.
The research leading to these results has received funding from Horizon Europe under Grant Agreement nº 101076360.
The r-LightBioCom project, funded by the EU, held its second Project Meeting on 26th-27th September 2023. The meeting, attended by more than 30 people, was hosted as an on-site and online hybrid event by the project partners Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH (Leibniz Institute for Composite Materials) and Hochschule Kaiserslautern (University for Applied Sciences) in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
The first day was dedicated to presenting and discussing the project progress. Work package leader gave an overview of all technical work packages, and the participants reviewed the achievements and results obtained since the project has started. All attendees had the opportunity to see and lay their hands on the first samples produced in the project. Following the technical project progress review, the meeting host Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH gave all attendees a tour of the research laboratories.
On the second day, the consortium welcomed the newest r-LightBioCom project partner Gen2Carbon, who had just recently become an official partner of the project. After that, all partners focussed on the impact measures of the project as well as the overall project management. The day ended with a visit to the research and development facilities of the project partner Hochschule Kaiserslautern.
