The EU-funded HyLICAL project has reached a major milestone with the launch of Europe’s first magnetocaloric pilot plant for hydrogen liquefaction. Dr. Tino Gottschall, scientist at HZDR’s High Magnetic Field Laboratory (HLD), has long envisioned a plant capable of producing 5,000 kilograms of liquid hydrogen per day – significantly more efficient and affordable than today’s liquefaction methods. Together with MAGNOTHERM and other HyLICAL partners, his team is now working to prove that hydrogen liquefaction based on the magnetocaloric effect can be scaled for industrial deployment. The Magnetocaloric Effect: How It Works Europe's first demonstrator of a magnetically cooled hydrogen liquefaction plant is based on the magnetocaloric effect. “Our method offers significant advantages for hydrogen liquefaction,” notes Gottschall.