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Research Infrastructures

FLOWBAT

FLOWBAT is an interdisciplinary thematic platform of applied character offering a solid basement for Redox Flow Batteries development, created by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), fully aligned with SGD 7 (affordable and clean energy) which, at the same time, is related to SGD 13 (Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts).

Organisation

CSIC

Country

Spain

Technology

Electrochemical energy storage

TRL Level

4-6

FromMATtoBATT

The electrochemical energy storage activities at KIT are primarily performed at the Institute of Applied Materials – Energy Storage Systems (IAM-ESS) and the Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU).

Organisation

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Country

Germany

Technology

Electrochemical energy storage

TRL Level

1-3

GeoMicrobiology Laboratory

A fully equipped Containment Level 2 microbiology laboratory with the capability of handling geological materials (core materials and groundwaters/formation waters).

Organisation

British Geological Survey

Country

United Kingdom

Technology

Microbiological activities in subsurface reservoirs and infrastructure associated with gas or heat storage
Chemical energy storage
Thermal energy storage

TRL Level

1-3, 4-6, Above

HESINT

The infrastructure comprises two complementary facilities for characterization, validation and integration into electric grids of hybrid energy storage technologies, one main facility (TRL6-7) and one complementary testing facility to complete its functionality (TRL4-5).

Organisation

Ciemat

Country

Spain

Technology

Mechanical energy storage

TRL Level

4-6, Above

HOTLAB AND MENHIR

Organisation

ENEA

Country

Italy

Technology

TRL Level

HPC Cluster

LNEG’s HPC Cluster is a High-Performance Computing system with 4 TFLOPS of peak computing power. It consists of 96 computation nodes (Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4 2.1GHz) interconnected by a 56 Gb/s Infiniband communication...

Organisation

LNEG

Country

Portugal

Technology

Chemical energy storage
Thermal energy storage
Solar fuels (hydrogen, syngas)
Internal energy
Mechanical energy storage

TRL Level

1-3, 4-6, Above 6

HPC5 (Supercomputer)

HPC5 is a supercomputing system. It is a DELL EMC hybrid CPU-GPU system and it peaks a computational power of around 52Pflops.

Organisation

Eni Spa

Country

Italy

Technology

Thermal energy storage

TRL Level

HYCEES

HYCEES infrastructure consists of two complementary installations: EGA stands for Station for Autonomous Generation and includes two groups of photovoltaic panels of 1.5 kWp and an emulator of wind turbine with a maximum power of 6 kW.

Organisation

Ciemat

Country

Spain

Technology

Hybrid chemical and electrochemical energy storage

TRL Level

4-6

Hycenta and FCECH

The Functional Coatings Lab for Energy Conversion and Hydrogen at the AIT Center for Energy disposes comprehensive materials synthesis and characterization infrastructure for material- and process development in the fields of Energy Conversion and Hydrogen, especially membrane-based ...

Organisation

Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)

Country

Austria

Technology

Electrochemical energy storage
Chemical energy storage

TRL Level

1-3, 4-6

Hydrogen and water electrolyser platform

Organisation

EDF

Country

France

Technology

Chemical energy storage

TRL Level

Above 6

ITHER

FHa performs at its facilities R&D&i activities across the entire hydrogen value chain.

Organisation

Fundación para el Desarrollo de las Nuevas Tecnologías del Hidrógeno en Aragón – FHa

Country

Spain

Technology

Chemical energy storage

TRL Level

4-6

Imaging & Structural Analysis

DTU Energy provides access to advanced materials characterization, tomography and structural analysis techniques. The main focus is on in situ and operando methods, for instance operando diffraction, spectroscopy and imaging studies of batteries, fuel-cell and electrolysis materials and thermal energy storage materials.

Organisation

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)

Country

Denmark

Technology

Electrochemical energy storage
Chemical energy storage
Thermal energy storage

TRL Level

1-3, 4-6

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