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Automated mass-manufacturing and quality assurance of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell stacks

Total Cost €

EC-Contrib. €

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qSOFC project word cloud

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specialized uuml laser inspection expensive optimized capex motivated parties tightness improvement 7000 parts boosted labour automated leak defects 8000 manufacturing background kw assemblies sofc haikutech brazed fuel cell oy m expertise speed expenditure 1000 sandvik centres vision mw services ko validation chain create assurance replacing 2000 scientific 500 market stack detect actions validate natural industrial quality qsofc enea automation welded purpose cells elcogen ready optimize vtt 3d interconnects competitiveness mass stacks companies capital ing machine single manual elringklinger detection combines industry interconnect

Project "qSOFC" data sheet

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Coordinator	Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy Organization address address: VUORIMIEHENTIE 3 city: Espoo postcode: 2150 website: www.vtt.fi contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Finland [FI]
Project website	http://www.qsofc.eu/
Total cost	2˙110˙015 €
EC max contribution	2˙110˙015 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.3.3.8.1. (Increase the electrical efficiency and the durability of the different fuel cells used for power production to levels which can compete with conventional technologies, while reducing costs)
Code Call	H2020-JTI-FCH-2016-1
Funding Scheme	FCH2-RIA
Starting year	2017
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2017-02-01 to 2020-04-30

Partnership

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy Organization address address: VUORIMIEHENTIE 3 city: Espoo postcode: 2150 website: www.vtt.fi contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	FI (Espoo)	coordinator	549˙817.00
2	ELRINGKLINGER AG ELRINGKLINGER AG Organization address address: MAX EYTH STRASSE 2 city: DETTINGEN AN DER ERMS postcode: 72581 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	DE (DETTINGEN AN DER ERMS)	participant	431˙877.00
3	ELCOGEN OY ELCOGEN OY Organization address address: NIITTYVILLANKUJA 4 city: VANTAA postcode: 1510 website: www.elcogen.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	FI (VANTAA)	participant	275˙750.00
4	AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE Organization address address: LUNGOTEVERE GRANDE AMMIRAGLIO THAON DI REVEL 76 city: ROMA postcode: 196 website: http://www.enea.it contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	IT (ROMA)	participant	239˙750.00
5	HAIKU TECH EUROPE BV HAIKU TECH EUROPE BV Organization address address: SPOORWEGLAAN 16 city: MAASTRICHT postcode: 6221 BS website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	NL (MAASTRICHT)	participant	204˙925.00
6	AKTSIASELTS ELCOGEN AKTSIASELTS ELCOGEN Organization address address: VALUKOJA 23 city: TALLIN postcode: 11415 website: www.elcogen.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	EE (TALLIN)	participant	200˙750.00
7	AKTIEBOLAGET SANDVIK MATERIALSTECHONOLOGY AKTIEBOLAGET SANDVIK MATERIALSTECHONOLOGY Organization address address: . city: SANDVIKEN postcode: 811 81 website: www.smt.sandvik.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	SE (SANDVIKEN)	participant	107˙145.00
8	MUKO MASCHINENBAU GMBH MUKO MASCHINENBAU GMBH Organization address address: HEINKELSTRASSE 46 city: WEINSTADT postcode: 71384 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	DE (WEINSTADT)	participant	100˙000.00

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Project objective

qSOFC project combines leading European companies and research centres in stack manufacturing value-chain with two companies specialized in production automation and quality assurance to optimize the current stack manufacturing processes for mass production. Currently the state-of-the-art SOFC system capital expenditure (capex) is 7000…8000 €/kW of which stack is the single most expensive component. This proposal focuses on SOFC stack cost reduction and quality improvement by replacing manual labour in all key parts of the stack manufacturing process with automated manufacturing and quality control. This will lead to stack cost of 1000 €/kW and create a further cost reduction potential down to 500 €/kW at mass production (2000 MW/year).

During the qSOFC project, key steps in cell and interconnect manufacturing and quality assurance will be optimized to enable mass-manufacturing. This will include development and validation of high-speed cell-manufacturing process, automated 3D machine vision inspection method to detect defects in cell manufacturing and automated leak-tightness detection of laser-welded/brazed interconnect-assemblies.

The project is based on the products of its' industrial partners in stack-manufacturing value-chain (ElringKlinger, Elcogen AS, Elcogen Oy, Sandvik) and motivated by their interest to further ready their products into mass-manufacturing market. Two companies specialized in production automation and quality control (Müko, HaikuTech) provide their expertise to the project. The two research centres (VTT, ENEA) support these companies with their scientific background and validate the produced cells, interconnects and stacks.

Effective exploitation and dissemination of resulting improved products, services, and know-how is a natural purpose of each partner and these actions are boosted by this project. This makes project results available also for other parties and increases competitiveness of the European fuel cell industry.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2018	Markus Rautanen, Olli Himanen, Jyrki Mikkola, Johan Tallgren, Enn Ã•unpuu, Sergii Pylypko, Matti Noponen, Paul Hallanoro, Jukka GÃ¶Ã¶s, Anton Litke, Roderik HÃ¶ppener, Simon Hailer, Uwe Maier, Robert Berger, Stephen McPhail, Lars SteckkÃ¶nig Mass-manufacturing and quality assurance of SOFC stacks in FCH JU projects qSOFC and INNO-SOFC published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	European SOE&SOFC Forum	2020-01-27
2018	Anton Litke, Petrus Martens, Ronald van Olmen, Greg Norsworthy, Roderik HÃ¶ppener Artificial intelligence for automatic optical inspection of multilayered solid oxide membranes published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	European SOE & SOFC Forum	2020-01-27
2018	Carlos Bernuy-Lopez, Robert Berger, JÃ¶rgen Westlinder Long term stability of a Mn-rich precoated AISI 441 for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Interconnects at 650 Â°C in air published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	European SOE & SOFC Forum	2020-01-27
2007	Stephen J. McPhail, Anton Litke, Roderik HÃ¶ppener, Markus Rautanen, Sergii Pylypko, Enn Ã•unpuu, Andreas WeiÃŸ, Matti Noponen, Robert Berger, Sven Aheimer Quality assurance in SOFC manufacturing â€“ the qSOFC project published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	European Fuel Cell Technology & Applications Piero Lunghi Conference Naples, December 12-15, 2017 PROCEEDINGS EFC17 / 411	2020-01-27
2018	Carlos Bernuy-Lopez, Robert Berger, Mikael StenstrÃ¶m, JÃ¶rgen Westlinder Sandvik surface technology: a solution for mass production of fuel cells published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	International Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Conference	2020-01-27

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