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Approximately 8,000 employees at 20 R&D centers around the world develop new products, technologies, processes, and methods for solutions that are tailored to the market. Some of the numerous research projects are supported with national and European funding. The research results achieved in the funded projects form the basis for further R&D activities.

HERAQCLES: new manufacturing approaches for hydrogen electrolysers

HERAQCLES stands for new manufacturing approaches for Hydrogen Electrolysers to provide Reliable AEM technology-based solutions while achieving Quality, Circularity, low LCOH, high Efficiency and Scalability. It is a joint project, funded by the Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, coordinated by Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG that gathers research partners to other industrial ones:

HERAQCLES: neue Fertigungsansätze für Wasserstoff-Elektrolyseure

The experienced consortium brings together a unique combination of know-hows and manufacturing capabilities provided by strong representation from industrial partners. Project HERAQCLES has the ambition to deliver an operational 25kW electrolyser stack by 2027, including balance-of-plant based on AEM technology to validate both our novel design-for-manufacturing architecture and innovative components developed for automated production processes. AEM electrolysis offers a more attractive cost/performance ratio compared to state-of-art PEM electrolysis because these is no need to utilise precious group metals in stack components like catalysts, porous transport layers and bipolar plates for generating hydrogen at reasonably high current density.

Acknowledgment of funding
This project has received funding from the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 Joint Undertaking (now Clean Hydrogen Partnership) under Grant Agreement No 101111784. This Joint Undertaking receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme, Hydrogen Europe and Hydrogen Europe Research.

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Flyer project HERAQCLES

European Comission | CORDIS

Electrolysis can ensure the success of the energy transition | medias

Hydrogen technology

WEA-Lagerzentrum.NRW: reducing bearing damage in the drive train of wind turbines

EU funded projects

Increasing the reliability of the wind turbines by reducing bearing damage is the main objective of the funding project. The long-term objective is to establish “WEA-Lagerzentrum.NRW”, a wind turbine bearing center in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The cost-effectiveness of power generation from wind energy can be increased by improving the costly repair and maintenance work required as a result of premature rolling bearing damage. As part of the proposed project, two globally unique bearing test rigs will be constructed; one for planetary gear bearings and the other for high-speed shaft bearings in output shafts. The test rigs will approve wind turbine original rolling bearings under realistic operating conditions. The required test rigs are designed to analyze insufficiently explored damage phenomenon.

A list of requirements is currently being created for the development of the test rigs. In the next step, the test rigs will be constructed in the hardware implementation phase and put into operation.

This project will be supported with funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

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