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AIChE H2CIRC
Project length: five years
On March 13, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $750 million in funding for 52 projects across 24 states to dramatically reduce the cost of clean hydrogen and reinforce American leadership in the growing hydrogen industry. Among the recipients, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) was selected to lead H2CIRC, a new “recovery and recycling” consortium charged with developing innovative and practical approaches to enable the recovery, recycling, and reuse of materials and components for hydrogen fuel cells and electrolyzers. This development will be supported by federal funding to be awarded to AIChE for the Hydrogen Electrolyzer and Fuel Cell Recycling Consortium, which totals $50 million over five years. The funding is being provided by the DOE's Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office.
AIChE will lead a consortium that includes national laboratories, universities, and key fuel cell and electrolyzer industry partners. The project will develop and demonstrate recycling technology approaches to address end-of-life and critical supply chain challenges for proton exchange membrane fuel cells and electrolyzers. The goal of the project is to provide a blueprint for the hydrogen industry to efficiently and sustainably recover and recycle materials and components from fuel cells and electrolyzers.
unLOHCked
Project Duration: 01.07.2023 - 30.06.2026
The ultimate goal of the UnLOHCked consortium is to exploit the full potential of LOHC (Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier) technology for hydrogen logistics by developing a completely CO2-free dehydrogenation plant for electricity generation. This is to be achieved by using a directly coupled technology for converting liquid hydrogen carriers into electricity and hydrogen under energy-efficient conditions and with highly optimized catalysts.
Crucial to the success of the project is the development of an innovative, cost-effective and sustainable LOHC technology with improved thermal energy efficiency in the dehydrogenation step and the development of new catalysts with high productivity and catalytic stability. The performance of the technology will be demonstrated in a LOHC dehydrogenation plant with direct thermal coupling to a SOFC (Solid Oxide Fuel Cell) for the production of renewable electricity and hydrogen. With its expertise in precious metal catalysis and its know-how in the production of precious metal catalysts, Heraeus Precious Metals is making a significant contribution to the success of the project.
PEMTASTIC
Project Duration: 01.01.2023 - 31.12.2025
The R&D project PEMTASTIC aims to meet the key technical challenges to increase durability of membrane-electrode assembly (MEA) for heavy-duty applications. These challenges are approached with a combination of modelbased design and the development of a durable catalyst-coated membrane using innovative materials tailored for heavy duty operation at high temperature (105°C).
BRAVA
Project Duration: 01.12.2022 - 30.11.2025
The Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cell (FC) technology emerging from the automotive industry is of high interest for the future aeronautic industry. However, while automotive FC systems are limited to about 100 kW, an aircraft requires a significantly greater amount of power (multi-MW). In addition, it must operate at different conditions, while being light-weight and keeping the system’s safety and reliability levels to aeronautical standards. Towards these requirements, the 3-year project BRAVA will develop breakthrough subsystem technologies (incl. catalysts, membranes, cooling systems and heat exchangers and air supply) for a FC-based Power Generation System (PGS) for aviation.
H2Giga - SEGIWA
Project Duration: 01.05.2021 - 31.12.2025
Setup of a material flow for serial production of PEM electrolyzers - Adjustment and mitigation of bottle necks of refining capacities for Pt & Ir material streams, as well as closing the loop via catalyst production.
H2Giga - DERIEL
Project Duration: 01.05.2021 - 31.12.2025
Setup and expansion of recycling capacities for Pt & Ir waste streams from PEM electrolyzers in the range of GW-production. Focus on processing end-of-life electrodes – CCM (catalyst coated membrane) or MEA (membrane electrode assembly) – as well as assessment of the precious metal value the so called sampling process.