While fuel cell technologies for residential heat and power cogeneration systems are by now well proven and widely recognised for their efficiency, they still struggle for public acceptance due to cost.

The new FCH JU project HEATSTACK aims at reducing thee production costs of their most expensive system components, the fuel cell stacks and the heat exchangers, by up to 60%.

The aspects of materials, design, manufacturing and upscaling will be addressed and optimised in view of improving the market competitiveness of both the proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) and solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems.

HEATSTACK started in April this year and is set to last 3 years.

Find out more about HEATSTACK