R & D

Step 1 : Modeling and installation of an experimental equipment

• Action 1: Dimensioning and installation of a test bench for PàC-R

  • Implementation of a specific experimental system for characterizing the performance of PàC-R. This experimental device will be fully automated, including diagnosis, data logging, settings, alarm and security functions.

• Action 2 : Semi-transparent PàC-R cell designs

  • For the understanding and characterization of PàC-R, Physico-chemical phenomena multiphysical and multi-scale modelling under the COMSOL Multiphysics software environment.
  • Design of functional PàC-R cells guided by modelling performed in the COMSOL Multiphysics environment.

Step 2 : Assembling and instrumentation

• Action 1: PàC-R assembly

  • Optimization of tightening, tightness and preliminary tests of electrical performances.

• Action 2: Semi-transparent PàC-R cells Instrumentation

  • Fast camera imaging system Implementation
  • Image acquisition and processing system Implementation

Step 3 : PàC-R Experiments

• Action 1: Real-time testing of a PàC-R in electrolyser mode.

  • The influence of sunlight and PàC-R operating parameters study

• Action 2: Real-time test of the PàC-R in PàC mode

  • Study of the influence of the operating parameters of PàC-R in humid tropical environments

Step 4 : PàC-R Optimization

• Action 1: PàC-R demonstrator optimal design Conception

  • Exchanges Modelisation and Exchange surfaces optimization

• Action 2: Optimized PàC-R Demonstrator Assembly and tests

  • Optimization of tightening, tightness and preliminary tests of the electrical performance of the optimized demonstrator.