SAFphyre is part of a wider community of Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking projects advancing solid oxide electrolysis and clean fuel technologies.
OUTFOX (Optimized Up-scaled Technology for next-generation solid OXide electrolysis) is a Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking project advancing solid oxide electrolysis (SOEL) toward industrial-scale, cost-effective green hydrogen production. Where SAFphyre focuses on co-electrolysis for sustainable aviation fuel, OUTFOX addresses the upstream challenge of scaling solid oxide cell and stack manufacturing for pure hydrogen production.
Objectives
- Scale up solid oxide electrolysis cells to geometric areas of up to 900 cm², compatible with high-volume manufacturing techniques.
- Achieve current densities of at least 0.85 A/cm² using cells 25% thinner than current state-of-the-art designs.
- Validate performance and durability across two testing campaigns totalling more than 4,000 hours of operation.
- Demonstrate a scaled-up SOEL module at 80 kW, preparing the technology for deployment in 100 MW-scale industrial systems.
Participants
- TNO (Netherlands) — Project coordinator
- Elcogen AS & Elcogen OY (Estonia/Finland) — Cell development and manufacturing
- Convion (Finland) — Stack and system integration
- VTT (Finland) — Hydrogen system integration and cell characterisation
- Politecnico di Milano (Italy) — Research and technical evaluation
- Shell — Industrial end-user perspective
- Linq Consulting (UK) — Dissemination and communication