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Safran Power Units is Safran Group Fuel Cell center of excellence: it aims to mature this very promising technology for the decarbonization of aviation.

Safran PU is specialised in the design and manufacturing of Auxiliary Power Units (APUs), starting systems for civil and military aircraft, as well as turbojet engines for missiles and target drones. It also innovates and develops new solutions for power generation that are ever more efficient, cleaner and more economical, by relying on hybridization and fuel cell technology.

Safran Power Units is the Project Coordinator of the NIMPHEA project. As such, Safran Power Unit will be in charge of the technical, financial and administrative coordination of the project. Safran PU will also lead and monitor the dissemination and communication activities and will ensure the long-term exploitation of project results.

From a technical point of view, Safran Power Unit will focus on the new MEA specification, and will guide MEA manufacturing actors to reach and aeronautical quality level of manufacturing process and the management of safety topics related to the development of a new technology of fuel cell stack core component.

Safran PU will also lead the TRL evaluation of this new MEA . Safran PU will be part of the validation phase using a full size MEA and Safran PU bipolar plates.

“The High temperature PEMFCs technology would present all the advantages to tackle the integration, performance, reliability and climate neutrality challenges that aviation field requires.

By being part of the NIMPHEA consortium and managing it, Safran Power Units will contribute to raise the maturity of this technology by studying one of its core component“.

Yan Duranteau, NIMPHEA Project coordinator / Project leader in R&T department