Asterix 3 - further development of micro combined heat and power production

The project has developed and optimized a proof-of-concept micro combined heat and power plant of 1 kW electricity based on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC). The specific technical goals for life, reliability, ruggedness, features and more is reached in a number of, but not all, areas. Among other things, earned an electrical efficiency of over 40% (calculated) and 4000 hours operation of the plant. In addition, added burner and heat storage into the system, which can also provide power to the grid. During the project it is found that SOFC technology is still very immature.

It has been a very technically focused project that has aimed to make the technology ready for the demonstration, and there have been short-term commercial goals. The knowledge created in the project, the Danish participant use in connection with the continued development of micro CHP plants based on low-temperature PEM fuel cells.

EU's Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking program (FCH JU) has been hovedsponser to the project and EUDP has given additional support to the Danish participant, Dantherm Power.