Fives invests to optimize its hydrogen liquefaction equipment

2024-08-24 09:30:00

In order to improve the exchangers and cold boxes that it produces for the liquefaction of hydrogen, Fives has launched the HyGen R&D program, with the CEA and the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne. With a budget of 7.5 million euros over four years, it aims to improve knowledge on this transition from gas to liquid state (at – 250 °C) and the design of the equipment.

Designing more compact and easier to manufacture equipment

«One of the sections will focus on the equations that allow the thermodynamic behavior of the hydrogen molecule in the equipment to be modeled.“, explains Vincent Pourailly, President of the Cryogenics division at Fives. The challenge: to design more compact and easy-to-manufacture equipment, to increase production and meet an anticipated increase in demand for hydrogen mobility.

Fives estimates that HyGen will generate 15 million euros in revenue within three years and plans to create 85 to 90 jobs within four years, mainly at its Golbey site (Vosges). #

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