{"id":153785,"date":"2024-10-18T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T01:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/?p=153785"},"modified":"2024-10-16T12:18:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T10:18:52","slug":"postdoc-position-on-physics-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/postdoc-position-on-physics-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Postdoc Position on physics, Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA), presented for the first time by the European Commission in March 2023, considers the production of green hydrogen to be a strategic industry. Hydrogen could account for 20% of the EU\u2019s energy mix by 2050, including 20-50% of energy demand in transport and 5-20% in the industry. Water electrolysis is a promising technology to decrease the worldwide strong reliance on fossil fuels and support the development of a climate-neutral economy. Green hydrogen electrochemically generated with renewable power sources (e.g. solar, wind energy,\u00a0etc.<\/em>) is a clean and carbon-neutral energy carrier that can be stored, transported and re-transformed using a fuel cell to electricity with water as only by-product.<\/p>\n

In the \u201cDELYCIOUS\u201d project funded by Horizon Europe and the EU Clean H2 Partnership, Air Liquide, Fraunhofer IWES, Horiba France, Dumarey Softronix, ETA Florence, Stargate Hydrogen, Sivonic, and University of Twente will combine forces to meet these challenges by developing\u00a0Diagnostic tools for ELectrolYsers that are Cost-efficient, Innovative, Open, Universal and Safe.<\/strong>\u00a0These diagnostic tools will first be validated at the lab-scale for all three technologies, AEL, PEMEL and SOEL followed by a TRL 6 demonstration of the developed electrolyser management system (EMS) with a 460 kW AEL stack.<\/p>\n

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Duties of the position<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your principal task in the project will be the identification of suitable monitoring parameters to follow degradation of a SOEL lab-scale cell. For this, you will combine physics-based performance modelling of the SOEL cell with long-term (>1000 h) performance testing. Here, appropriate test protocols for the long-term performance tests will also need to be defined. Once the degradation parameters are identified, they will be fed to the condition monitoring scheme at the heart of the EMS. Finally, you will perform the validation of the developed EMS for a lab-scale SOEL cell and, in turn, check the validity of the identified SOEL degradation parameters via the combined experimental and modelling approach.<\/p>\n

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