Inauguration of our in-house hydrogen laboratory

Dur­ing the spring, we have built a hydro­gen labor­at­ory, in con­nec­tion with our new headquar­ters in cent­ral Gothen­burg. H2LAB, as it is called, has advanced equip­ment for per­form­ance meas­ure­ment and long-term tests of elec­tro­lyz­er cells, and also enables in-house pro­duc­tion of test cells. This will accel­er­ate the devel­op­ment of our dis­rupt­ive cell mater­i­al for elec­tro­lyzes, at the same time as the eval­u­ation of dif­fer­ent con­cepts for volume pro­duc­tion is enabled.

Today, May 26, was the offi­cial open­ing of H2LAB. Ellinor Ehrn­berg, Pres­id­ent of Smol­tek’s hydro­gen busi­ness area, gave a speech and the new chair­man of the board, Per Zell­man, cere­mo­ni­ously cut the rib­bon and declared the com­pany’s new labor­at­ory open.

Here we can try-out cells with a min­im­al amount of iridi­um. Using as little iridi­um as pos­sible in a PEM elec­tro­lyz­er is abso­lutely cru­cial in order to be able to pro­duce the large amount of green hydro­gen that a fossil-free future needs.

Ellinor Ehrn­berg

She con­tin­ues:

In an extern­al labor­at­ory, we have already been able to show that we reach the right per­form­ance with 0.5 mg iridium/​cm2. And hope­fully we will be able to show that our tech­no­logy only needs to use 0.1 mg iridium/​cm2. Com­pare that with the goal set by the elec­tro­lyz­er man­u­fac­tur­ers, which is 0.8 mg iridium/​cm2 in 2030. With our tech­no­logy, around 5 tons of iridi­um could be saved annu­ally – which is a rare met­al that is fore­cast to cost around SEK 8 million/​kg in 2030.