Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TOFR20220719024
- Term of Validity
- 8 March 2023 - 7 March 2025
- Company's Country
- France
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- A French company developed a genset for data center to produce decarbonated electricity from renewable hydrogen. The fuel cell (FC) power can be sized according to the needed nominal power. The genset meets energy challenges by providing independence / reliability in addition to the data center information security, from the cooling system up to the entire building in the event of a power cut. Commercial agreement with technical assistance is sought with partner aiming to secure its data center.
- Full Description
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In many industrial sites, data centers must ensure the total availability of their electrical power supply. These sites are equipped with generators, mostly with diesel engines, as well as UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) and batteries to ensure uninterrupted switching between the electricity grid and emergency generators.
Moreover, the Covid-19 crisis and the war in Ukraine raised the need to declare energy independence for the benefit of companies and to develop flexibility levers faster than expected. The use of renewable and carbon-free hydrogen plays a key role in making data centers smarter and adapted to these changes: fossil fuels cost increasing, and local energy independence.
The high-capacity 350 kVA genset is powered by renewable hydrogen. Electrical energy is produced from H2 gas via a Fuel Cell. The genset has been designed to warrant 24/7 availability to the user network during the operating period. To ease setup, all the equipment is integrated into a 30-foot high cube container, i.e. 20m² of footprint.
The container is made up of 4 compartments isolated from each other by partitions:
- The 1st compartment accommodates the hydrogen circuit and the heat pump system air cooler.
- The 2nd compartment accommodates a FC system which produce electrical energy. The nominal power of the FC system is 220 kVA (250 kVA peak)
- The 3rd compartment accommodates an electrical energy storage system and an electrical conversion system. The function of electrical energy storage is to enable the genset to periodically deliver to the data center network electrical power greater than the power that can be supplied by the heat pumps alone, within the capacity of the conversion and transformation systems.
- The 4th compartment accommodates the air conditioning system and the electrical transformation system.
The French company seeks partners aiming to secure their data centers (existing or new data centers) by supplying decarbonated electricity. Commercial agreements with technical assistance are sought with partners aiming to secure their data center. - Advantages and Innovations
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Emitting only water, the genset has independent modules (Domestic Hot Water, Pulsed Air, Solar farm) that can be added to the system and offer several applications. Heat losses from the fuel cell can be reused.
-Zero carbon emissions
-Electrical + thermal energy
-Independence from fluctuating fossil fuel prices
-Noiseless solutions
Fuel cell power can be sized according to the nominal power to be reached 500 kVA or 1MW for example. The fuel cell is directly linked to the sizing of the H2 storage and the autonomy the data center is willing to achieve.
-24-hour availability
-Ecologically responsible
-Stationary
-Modularity - Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
- Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- Goal 13: Climate Action
- Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
- IPR status
- Secret know-how
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The partner could be:
-Data centers constructors
-Private organisation (telecom operator, bank, stock exchange, data center hosting, industrial or non-industrial companies)
-Public infrastructure (Municipality….)
The innovative high-power ecological generator set can be rented or purchased under a commercial agreement with technical assistance.
The French company can help with the implementation and maintenance activities of the genset. In addition, the SME provides the partner with filled H2 tank to operate the fuel cell. - Type and Size of Partner
- Big company
- SME 50 - 249
- Other
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 004006001 - Energy management
- 004002001 - Fuel cell, hydrogen production
- 04002005 - Generators, electric engines and power converters
- 04005004 - Photovoltaics
- 10002007 - Environmental Engineering / Technology
- Market keywords
- 06010002 - Energy for the community/public sector
- 06008 - Energy Storage
- 06009 - Energy Distribution
- 06003008 - Other alternative energy
- 08002001 - Energy management
- Sector Groups Involved
- Renewable Energy
- Targeted countries
- All countries
