McPhy and the University of Florence (UNIFI) sign a joint laboratory & research partnership agreement
20 December 2024 - 3:45AM
UK Regulatory
McPhy and the University of Florence (UNIFI) sign a joint
laboratory & research partnership agreement
Foussemagne (France) and Florence (Italy), on
December 19th, 2024 – 5:45 pm CET – McPhy Energy, a
leading European player in alkaline electrolyzer technology and
manufacturing, today announces the signing of a Joint Laboratory
and a research partnership with the University of Florence
(UNIFI).
This Joint Laboratory will provide additional
testing capabilities that McPhy will use to enhance the performance
of its technologies.
In the fast-growing and highly strategic green
hydrogen sector, technological challenges related to reliable
testing are significant. By leveraging the academic expertise of
the University of Florence to conduct deeper scientific and
experimental analysis, McPhy aims to further improve the
performance and safety of its solutions. Within the collaboration
signed today, McPhy and UNIFI will assess together the latest
generation of McPhy stacks, made of extra-large (XL) cells, the
base elements of a 4-5 MW capacity electrolyzer that will be
launched commercially within 2025 and produced at the Belfort
Gigafactory.
This Joint Laboratory & research partnership
builds on a successful collaboration between the University of
Florence and McPhy, which began three years ago. This partnership
has already led to the filing of a joint patent, marking an
important milestone in their scientific cooperation. The
agreement also highlights the importance of geographical proximity
as one of McPhy’s manufacturing plant and testing hub is located in
San Miniato, close to Florence (Italy).
Prof. Alessandra Petrucci, Rector of the
University of Florence, declares: “The University of
Florence is addressing research on green hydrogen, and more in
general on energy transition, with a multi-disciplinary approach
ranging from frontier studies on technical aspects to advancements
in policy and economics. In this perspective, technology transfer
to industry represents a pillar of this approach. We are therefore
extremely happy to open this new Joint Laboratory with McPhy, which
comes as the culmination of several years of fruitful
collaboration. The new experimental facility will complement the
new laboratories in Calenzano, which do represent a flagship of our
engineering research and will represent the perfect framework for
synergic research since they also host a variety of other test rigs
for studying both hydrogen compression and clean
combustion.”
Benoît Barrière, Chief Technology Officer of
McPhy Energy, adds: “We are very satisfied with this new
Joint Laboratory with a renowned university. Overall, McPhy
collaborates with a dozen academic institutes worldwide, which is a
way to reinforce our leading role in green hydrogen production
equipment. Indeed, combining our industrial expertise and
technological innovation with the fundamental research of academic
institutions allows for the development of more efficient
solutions, accelerates the optimization of technologies, and helps
to anticipate future needs as effectively as possible.”
ABOUT MCPHY
Specialized in hydrogen production equipment,
McPhy is contributing to the global deployment of low-carbon
hydrogen as a solution for energy transition. With its complete
range of products dedicated to the industrial, mobility and energy
sectors, McPhy offers its customers turnkey solutions adapted to
their applications in industrial raw material supply, recharging of
fuel cell electric vehicles or storage and recovery of electricity
surplus based on renewable sources. As designer, manufacturer and
integrator of hydrogen equipment since 2008, McPhy has three
development, engineering and production centers in Europe (France,
Italy, Germany). Its international subsidiaries provide broad
commercial coverage for its innovative hydrogen solutions. McPhy
Energy is listed on Euronext Growth Paris (ISIN code: FR0011742329,
ticker: ALMCP).
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