New thermal insulation concepts for bulk liquid hydrogen shipping
Funds research into new insulation concepts that make bulk liquid hydrogen shipping cheaper and more reliable.
This Research and Innovation Action is paid as a lump sum under the Commission's 2021 lump-sum-contributions decision, one of many sibling topics in the same Clean Hydrogen JU 2026 call that all use lump-sum funding. Award criteria, scoring and thresholds sit in the Work Programme's General Annex D, and the submission and evaluation process and grant-agreement timeline sit in Annex F, common to ev…
This call funds research into new thermal insulation concepts for bulk liquid hydrogen (LH2) shipping, such as multi-layer or variable-density multilayer insulation combined with spray-on foam, aerogels or nano-cellular foams. Proposals should improve on traditional vacuum-jacketed dewar tanks, whose insulation performance depends heavily on vacuum integrity and which are costly to manufacture at scale.
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