HyGrIn Lab – Innovation for Green Hydrogen is a multi-purpose laboratory equipped with cutting-edge equipment that permits a comprehensive development of high temperature and low temperature-based devices for the production and use of green hydrogen. It forms part of the infrastructures of CENER’s Hydrogen Area
Located at CENER facilities in Sangüesa (Navarre-Spain) and with a total area of 300 m2, it is structured in the following unique areas:
- Area of materials. Area dedicated to the preparation, optimization and processing of functional materials for hydrogen technologies. It includes all necessary equipment for the preparation and homogenization of inks, pellet pressing, laminate casting, drying and sintering at high temperatures.
The area also includes a series of equipment for structural and mechanical characterization of processed materials and cell components: viscometer, optical microscope, scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffractometer, profilometer and particle size analyzer.
- Area of upscaling. It includes the necessary equipment to manufacture at pilot plant scale complete prototypes for the production and use of green hydrogen (e.g. cells and stacks for electrolysers and/or fuel cells).
In particular, the area comprises a roll-to-roll tape casting equipment for the preparation laminates, as well as a screen printing equipment. Likewise, it contains other additional equipment for the manufacture of cells and stacks (e.g. puncher, welding maching…).
- Electrochemical testing area. Area focused on the electrochemical characterization of cells and stacks for green hydrogen production and use. It includes multi-scale test stations, highlighting the testing capacity from small cells at the laboratory level (from the order of mW to a few W), to full-scale cells (sizes up to 10×10 cm2) and finally prototype-level stacks, up to 10 kW.
This hydrogen laboratory has been financed by:
(*Included the Ministry of Science and Innovation (Government of Spain) and by the Department of University, Innovation and Digital Transformation (Government of Navarra)).