Sectors of application
Fields:
- Hydrogen electrolysis production industry
- Hydrogen mobility industry
Customers: Electrolysis technology and auxiliary equipment suppliers, hydrogen project developers and investors, refuelling infrastructure operators, H2 storage solution manufacturers, hydrogen mobility manufacturers, certification and standardization bodies.
Our offer
- Performance evaluation of complete electrolysis systems
- Testing of electrolysis systems under variable operating conditions and coupling with renewable energy sources
- Long-term performance and behaviour studies
- Optimization and validation of safe filling protocols
- Validation of technological innovations at pilot scale
- Training of operators in the monitoring and maintenance of electrolyzers and refuelling stations
Your challenges
- Ensure the actual performance of equipment to strengthen the reliability of project cost, efficiency and profitability assumptions.
- Validate system behaviour under real-world conditions (flexibility, renewable energy coupling, transients) to reduce operational uncertainties.
- Anticipate ageing, reduce maintenance costs and maximize plant availability over the long term.
- Generate reliable, comparable and standardized data to build confidence among investors, partners and insurers and enhance project bankability.
- Train your operators (operations and maintenance) to improve overall performance and accelerate deployment.
Our strengths
- Unique expertise to support your projects: access to all of EDF’s expertise (electrical and process engineering, instrumentation and control, materials, data) to support hydrogen technologies.
- A flexible industrial-scale platform: a 4,500 m² facility capable of testing all types of electrolyzers up to 5 MW, as well as refuelling solutions for heavy-duty mobility.
- Testing under near-real-world conditions: connection to the Concept Grid enables realistic grid environments to be simulated, without the constraints of industrial operations.
- Fast, reliable and hassle-free execution: tests carried out at a single location, under operational conditions, with complete independence from supply and operational constraints.
Use case examples
ADEME: Testing of H2 tank filling protocols for heavy-duty mobility
Alkaline electrolyzer testing (2021–2023): Optimization of a complete system. Performance measurements, start-up characterization, etc.