Group of Energy Materials ‐ EPFL

GEM Team

Lab

MER Dr. Jan Van herle

Vision: Our Group performs R&D on fuel cells and electrolysis, concentrating on solid oxide technology (600-800°C) to convert hydrocarbons (natural gas, biofuels) into electricity and heat (gas-to-cogeneration) and convert excess electricity and waste heat into fuel (power-to-gas).

Reversible Fuel Cell / Electrolyser system installed in Switzerland

18.08.25EPFL

As a result of the EU Project SWITCH (2020-2024) ( https://switch-fch.eu/ ), the partner responsible for system integration, HyGear (NL), has transfered the succesfully tested project demonstrator to EPFL, also a SWITCH project partner (https://hygear.com/advanced-solid-oxide-electrolyser/ ).

Clean Hydrogen EU Call 2024 – GEM success

10.06.25EPFL

GEM participated in last year’s Clean Hydrogen EU Call 2024. The total number of proposals was 151, out of which 21 were eventually granted (14%) – H2 Valleys not counted. GEM is a partner in 4 out of the 21 granted projects : 3 in alcaline water electrolysis and 1 in PEM fuel cells.

New electrolysis LCA study published

18.10.24EPFL

GEM / IPESE have published a study in the journal Joule on the life cycle assessment of 4 electrolyser technologies.

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Student Projects

Student projects

Students are invited to go through the list of projects provided and contact the concerned assistant.Our projects are open primarily for students of the sections ME, MX, CH, PH, SIE, EL, MET. Should you belong to any of the other sections, feel free to contact us anyway. All the following projects have a PDF link.Master (…)

Contact

Group of Energy Materials – EPFL SCI-STI-JVH – GEM

Rue de l’industrie 17

CH-1951 Sion

Tel: 41 (0) 21 695 8263

email: [email protected]