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

目的是建立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。这些包括全氟磺酸离子传导膜（高度专业化的含氟聚合物）、含铂阳极和阴极催化剂层以及碳纤维基气体扩散层。随着燃料电池和现有市场对碳纤维和含氟聚合物材料需求的预计增长，如果目前的资源效率低下问题得不到解决，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目标，从而提高关键资源的使用效率，建立一个新的英国全球回收业务的潜力，并提高工业最终用户产品的竞争力

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