Sunfire to build electrolysis test facility at BASF site in Schwarzheide

SOEC only pays off if you’ve got steady high-grade steam and minimal thermal cycling - what’s the ramp strategy and steam purity spec at Schwarzheide, and whose waste heat are they tying into? Also hope they’re validating hard interlocks for steam starvation/redox and O2 handling; one bad trip and, well, there’s your problem: a cooked stack.

Curious how they’ll integrate SOEC at Schwarzheide: where’s the 700-850°C steam and steady heat coming from, waste heat from BASF units or dedicated burners, and how are they handling chromium/Si carryover and steam purity to protect the cells? In our high-temp ceramic gear, rapid ramping and start/stop cycles killed seals and caused microcracks; do they have MTBF and stack replacement intervals published for industrial duty?