RECycling Of high Value materials from fuel cell ElectRode assemblies (RECOVER)

燃料电池 ElectRode 组件中高价值材料的回收 (RECOVER)

• 批准号: 101178
• 金额: $ 63.27万
• 依托单位: JOHNSON MATTHEY HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=101178
• 关键词: RECycling; Value; materials; fuel; cell

The objective is to establish the technical and economic feasibility of recovery and re-use of high value materials from fuel cell electrode assemblies. These comprise perfluorosulphonic acid ion-conducting membrane (a highly specialised fluoropolymer), platinum-containing anode and cathode catalyst layers and carbon-fibre based gas diffusion layers. With the projected growth in demand for the carbon fibre and fluoropolymer materials, in both fuel cell and existing markets, if current resource inefficiencies are not addressed, this will increasingly lead to environmental issues and risk of supply disruption. Currently there are no established processes for recovering these high value materials from electrode products and the project therefore seeks innovative technical solutions to accomplish this, thereby improving efficiency in use of key resources, establishing the potential for a new UK-based global recycling business and increasing the competitiveness of the industrial end-user products

目的是确定从燃料电池电极组件中回收和再利用高价值材料的技术和经济可行性。其中包括全氟磺酸离子导电膜(一种高度专业化的氟聚合物)、含铂的阳极和阴极催化层以及碳纤维气体扩散层。由于燃料电池和现有市场对碳纤维和氟聚合物材料的需求预计将增长，如果不解决目前的资源效率低下问题，这将越来越多地导致环境问题和供应中断的风险。目前还没有从电极产品中回收这些高价值材料的既定工艺，因此该项目寻求创新的技术解决方案来实现这一点，从而提高关键资源的使用效率，建立一个新的总部位于英国的全球回收企业的潜力，并增加工业最终用户产品的竞争力。