Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Frank Allebrod performed his PhD study entitled “High Temperature and Pressure Alkaline Electroly-sis” under my supervision between 2009 and 2013. During his PhD he had the task to build up a test station to execute electrochemical measurements at temperatures and pressures of 250°C and 100 bar. He furthermore developed a new type of electrolysis cell with an immobilized electrolyte and metal foam based gas diffusion electrodes. The developed cells were tested in the constructed test rig and achieved outstanding performances in terms of current density at a specific cell voltage. The test setup was the basis for a fully automated test setup in which’s development, construction and commissioning Frank Allebrod was also involved. Franks work on the further developed electrolysis cells resulted in publications in the high-profiled Journal of Power Sources. He was also able to present his work on important international conferences like the International Conference on Hydrogen Production in Thessaloniki 2011, the World Hydrogen Energy Congress in Toronto 2012, the European Fuel Cell Forum in Lucern 2013 and the meeting of the electrochemical society in Cancun 2014. During his Postdoc time Frank Allebrod worked on reversible alkaline electrolysis cells to demonstrate an electrochemical cell that is able to produce hydrogen from electricity and electricity from hydrogen, with the aim to provide an energy storage technology for future energy scenarios with an increasing amount of fluctuating energy forms such as wind-energy. In the EU project “H2Ocean” it was Franks task to perform a theoretical analysis on how a multi megawatt hydrogen production platform on the ocean can benefit from high temperature alkaline electrolysis in terms of size, weight and investment cost reduction.