Project RippEly Activity Plan
🟧 WP1 – Project Management and Coordination
Period: Month 1 – Month 36
Responsible:IFE
Participants: all partners
General objective:Ensuring technical, administrative, and financial coordination of the project, in accordance with the proposal, Grant Agreement, and Consortium Agreement.
Main activities
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T1.1 Kick-off & Consortium Agreement -Organizing the kick-off meeting, establishing responsibilities, developing the management plan and data management plan.
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T1.2 Monitoring & Reporting - Tracking progress and quality of activities through Gantt charts, KPIs, and dashboards. Preparing periodic and final reports.
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T1.3 Risk Management - Identifying, assessing, and updating risks through dedicated registers (risk matrix, risk register).
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T1.4 Quality Assurance - Implementing a quality control flow, peer-review procedures for all deliverables.
🟩 WP2 – System Requirements and Specifications
Period: Month 1 – Month 12
Responsible: UPB
Participants: all partners
General objective:Defining hardware and software specifications for the power supplies of electrolyzers.
Main activities
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T2.1 Defining Power Supply Parameters - Establishing nominal voltages, operational ranges, and allowable ripple current/voltage limits.
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T2.2 Performance Parameters of the Electrolyzer - Defining energy efficiency, specific consumption, lifespan, and operating conditions.
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T2.3 Final Configuration of the Power-to-Hydrogen System - Analyzing and selecting various AC/DC topologies (NPC, interleaved Buck-Boost, resonant converters, bidirectional).
🟦 WP3 – Lifetime Assessment of ELECTROLYZERS
Period: Month 2 – Month 17
Responsible: IFE
Participants: ICSI
General objective:Determining the effect of current ripple on the degradation of alkaline and PEM electrolyzers through accelerated stress tests (AST) ≥1000 h.
Main activities
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T3.1 Baseline Performance Assessment -Tests with a minimum ripple source to establish the benchmark.
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T3.2 Degradation Assessment - Tests with conventional sources or synthetic ripple to identify the influence of ripple frequencies and amplitudes.
🟫 WP4 – Power Supply Modeling, Advanced Control & Digitalization
Period: Month 2 – Month 25
Responsible: AU
Participants: all partners
General objective:Developing an advanced AI control system to improve energy quality and a digital twin for real-time monitoring.
Main activities
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T4.1 AI System for Energy Quality - Adaptive control based on:
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Reinforcement Learning (DDPG)
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Adaptive PI Control
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Model Predictive Control (MPC)
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T4.2 Digital Twin for Predictive Maintenance -Scalable model for monitoring, trend analysis, and operational forecasting.
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T4.3 Integration and Validation -Testing in simulated and experimental scenarios, calibration based on industry feedback.
🟪 WP5 – Experimental Validation & Techno-Economic Analysis
Period: Month 16 – Month 36
Responsible: ICSI
Participants: all partners
General objective:Experimental validation of developed models and algorithms and cost analysis (CAPEX/OPEX).
Main activities
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T5.1 Experimental Testing -Validation of control technologies compared to WP3 results.
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T5.2 Techno-Economic Analysis - Cost assessment for various power supply configurations, ripple impact on degradation, TCO estimation.
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T5.3 Roadmap for Future Generation Converters -Identifying current limitations and defining development directions for energy conversion in electrolyzers.
🟨 WP6 – Reporting & Knowledge Community
Period: Month 1 – Month 36
Responsible: IFE
General objective:Ensuring reporting, communication, dissemination, and integration activities in the CETPartnership Knowledge Community.
Main activities
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Periodic and final reports
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Participation in workshops, events, and international conferences
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Contribution to the CETP knowledge base
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Communication and online visibility activities
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