EPFL presented a poster at ECOS 2023

Wei Xinyi – researcher from EPFL – presented a poster at the 36th International Conference on efficiency, cost, optimisation, simulation and environmental impact of energy systems, in short ECOS 2023. The event took place in the week June 25-30, 2023, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) and had the purpose to provide a forum for participants […]

SWITCH flies to Boston, US!

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, through the Group of Energy Materials unit, is Partner to the SWITCH project and is responsible for the system design activity (WP3), using its multi-objective and multi-period optimization tool to design the heat exchanger network capable of covering all loads and internal exchanges for switching the SOC between the operating […]

SolydEra brings SWITCH to the Hannover Fair!

SolydEra SA is Partner to the SWITCH project and is responsible for the design and construction of Balance of Plant components operating at high temperature. The company develops the Large Stack Module design for reversible operation, continuous hydrogen production, and is involved in the overall system design, construction and testing. Zacharie Wuillemin presented the SWITCH […]

<strong>SWITCH and the annual date with the EFCF</strong>

The European SOFC & SOE Forum is a high-level international fuel cell & electrolyser event that every year offers a presentation of the state-of-the-art technology. In 2022, Switzerland hosted the 15th edition of EFCF and focused on “science, engineering, materials, systems, applications and markets for all types of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC), Solid Oxide […]

<strong>SWITCH presented at Modelon Innovate 2022</strong>

The researcher Michele Bolognese, from Fondazione Bruno Kessler – FBK, participated in the Conference Modelon Innovate 2022 in Stockholm, last 19th of October.  With the presentation “rSOC System: Modeling and Control Development With Modelica-Based Language“, the researcher wished to present the model developed for the H2020 Projects PROMETEO and SWITCH.  The model enables the evaluation of a […]

SWITCH – CH2P Joint Workshop

On July 7, 2022 the SWITCH project presented the future exploitation during the final event of the CH2P Project. The CH2P project designed, constructed and tested a novel 20 kg/day SOFC prototype for flexible and multimodal co-generation of hydrogen, heat and power using bio-methane. The SWITCH project exploits and upscales the CH2P prototype by adding […]

EPFL at ECOS 2022

Xinyi Wei, researcher at the EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), partner of the SWITCH project, gave the presentation entitled “Life cycle Assessment of different hydrogen production routes” at ECOS 2022, the 35th International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems. The presentation aimed to give an overview of the […]

EPFL in Corfu to participate in the 5th International Degradation Workshop!

SWITCH project participated in the 5th International Workshop on degradation issues of fuel cells and electrolysers, which took place on 3rd and 4th of May 2022, in Corfu (Greece). Hamza Moussaoui from EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) gave the presentation entitled “Segmented SOFC/SOE testing with depletion of fuel / air / steam”. The event […]

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF LSM DYNAMIC MODELLING PRESENTED AT EFC21

EFC21 presentation of Dynamic modelling of SWITCH LSM

Our researcher Michele Bolognese presented today at  European Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Conference (EFC21) the results of the experimental validation of the SWITCH Large Stack Module. The results of the dynamic modelling of the Reversible Stack Module and of the External Reformer were validated by the experimental activities performed in Fondazione Bruno Kessler – FBK […]

<strong>SWITCH project at the SOFC-XVII</strong>

The project partner EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), on July 2021, participated in the digital meeting of the 17th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC-XVII). The event, sponsored by the High-temperature Energy, Materials and processes division of the Electrochemical Society, Inc. and the SOFC Society of Japan, saw the participation of the […]