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FINAL workshop

WORKSHOP

focus on monitoring, diagnostics, prognostics and control of sofc & pemfc   

Workshop organized by the Project RUBY funded by Horizon Europe Clean Hydrogen Partnership 

18 November 2025 – Webinar (10:00 – 13:00) 

TOPICS

The workshop will present the final results achieved by the EU project RUBY funded by Horizon Europe Clean Hydrogen Partnership. The project has developed, integrated, engineered and tested a comprehensive and generalized Monitoring, Diagnostic, Prognostic and Control (MDPC) tool capable of improving efficiency, reliability and durability of both SOFC and PEMFC systems for stationary applications. The MDPC tool features Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS)-based stack monitoring for fault diagnosis and lifetime estimation, Balance of Plant diagnostics, supervisory Real Time Optimization control and mitigation strategies. AI-based techniques have been implemented as well, confirming the effective opportunity to perform on-line diagnostics and prognostic analysis with affordable development efforts.

Methodological approaches for reliable performance of both stacks and BoP components

Use of machine learning for advanced diagnostics

Stack and system diagnostics

New solution to optimize performances

The role of enabling technologies for implementation

Impact on efficiency, performance, reliability, lifetime and maintenance of SOFC, PEMFC and SOEC

PRESENTATIONS

Time

Topic

Speaker

Affiliation

10:00 - 10:05

Welcome

C. Pianese

UNISA

10:05 - 10:20

Description of project RUBY

P. Polverino

UNISA

10:20 - 10:40

Hardware for EIS Monitoring

G. Spagnuolo

UNISA

10:40 - 11:15

EIS-based Monitoring and Diagnostics

P. Polverino, V. Frasci, B. Ludwig, M.-C. Péra, D. Juricic, Z. Gradišar

UNISA, EIFER, UBFC, IJS

11:15 - 11:30

Prognostics

P. Svaizer

FBK

11:30 - 11:40

Break



11:40 - 12:00

Control via Real Time Optimization

J. Van Herle, Hangyu Yu

EPFL

12:00 - 12:20

RUBY validation campaigns

P. Makinen, Hangyu Yu, B. Ludwig, V. Frasci

VTT, EPFL, EIFER, UNISA

12:20 - 12:35

MDPC Tool interface

D. Juricic, E. A. Adinolfi, V. Frasci

IJS, MIN, UNISA

12:35 - 12:45

EIS Web Tool for External Users

E. A. Adinolfi, V. Frasci, G. Cinti, L. Margutti

MIN, UNISA, UNIPG

12:45 - 13:00

Q&A



Affiliation

EIFER, European Institute for Energy Research (D); EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (CH); FBK, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (I); IJS, Jožef Stefan Institute (SI); MIN, MinervaS s.r.l. (I); UBFC, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté (F); UNIPG, University of Perugia (I); UNISA, University of Salerno (I); VTT, technical Research Centre of Finland (FI).

EMAIL workshop@rubyproject.eu

WEBINAR:  link

TIME 10::00 – 13:00

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