/ Presentation
Faurecia, company of the Group FORVIA, is a global automotive technology leader. Faurecia operates through four areas of business: Seating, Interiors, Clarion Electronics and Clean Mobility.
In 2022, the Group reported consolidated sales of €25.5 billion. Faurecia is listed on the Euronext Paris market and is a component of the CAC Next 20, CAC 40 ESG and CAC SBT 1.5° indexes.
Faurecia has made sustainable mobility a strategic priority.
Hydrogen mobility is rapidly gaining momentum and Faurecia is at the heart of a growing ecosystem of partners supporting its industrialization and adoption at scale. Faurecia has a clear roadmap to develop hydrogen storage solutions adapted to different use cases in passenger cars, commercial vehicles, logistics, industries and beyond over the coming decade. The Group covers 75% of the hydrogen drivetrain value with hydrogen storage systems, as well as fuel cell stack systems through Symbio, our joint venture with Michelin and Stellantis. Faurecia ambitions to become a world leader in hydrogen solutions for automotive and non-automotive applications and targets €3.5 bn sales by 2030. www.faurecia.com ; www.forvia.com
/ Main tasks in RHeaDHy
Faurecia, as Type-IV Composite tank and complete CGH2 storage system designer and manufacturer recognized in Commercial Vehicle market, is supporting the demonstration of High Flow Refueling protocol for Heavy duty application by developing and delivering 2 systems sized to onboard up to 100 kg of hydrogen at 70 MPa.
Faurecia will lead the development of the complete hydrogen systems that can meet this High Flow Refueling protocol and will document its operating limits in correlation with simulation.
/ Key people on the project
François Lacouture is a system architect for hydrogen storage at Faurecia. He has 20 years of experience in automotive mechatronics product development for clean mobility, with strong focus on innovation.
Within RHeaDHy, he supports activities related to the Truck Storage Test System (TSTS), the key technical brick that simulates the vehicle being filled by the hydrogen high-flow station.
Sullivan Icard is a mechanical engineer graduated from « Arts et Métiers Paritech (ENSAM) ». He has more than 20 years of system and valves development and especially the last 3 years on hydrogen auxiliaries for compressed hydrogen storage system.
In RHeaDHy project, he will bring his technical expertise in hydrogen system development for the development of the two Truck Storage Test System (TSTS) to demonstrate high flow system refueling protocols.