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MARCH 22, 2011

Researchers at Case Western University have developed catalysts made of carbon nanotubes dipped in a polymer solution that equal the energy output and otherwise outperform platinum catalysts in fuel cells. They’ve already shown the simple technique can significantly reduce fuel cell cost. Credit: ACS, Wang et al.

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DECEMBER 11, 2012

With the new BASF polymer, however, Ford is able to skip that painting step, thereby reducing cost and environmental impacts during production of the 2013 Ford Fusion. It takes roughly 18 gallons of diesel fuel for the transport truck for each trip. The trip is made three days a week, which requires 54 gallons of fuel.

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APRIL 30, 2019

Bosch has formed an alliance with Powercell Sweden AB, the Swedish manufacturer of fuel-cell stacks. Under the agreement, the two partners will work jointly to make the polymer-electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell ready for production. The fuel cell can play a decisive role here. —Stefan Hartung.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

Amyris, Inc., , a company which converts plant-sourced sugars into renewable hydrocarbons, reports achieving a record low manufacturing cost of $1.75 Amyris’ farnesene is a renewable hydrocarbon molecule addressing growing demand in a broad range of applications, from diesel and jet fuel to high-performance materials. per liter (US$6.63/gallon)

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) is hosting a Ride-and-Learn at the 232 nd Electrochemical Society (ECS) fall meeting next week at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Maryland. The Ride-and-Learn is open to all ECS attendees, first come, first served.

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MARCH 10, 2018

The startup is developing the technology’s ability to combine and separate individual molecules to make gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel using CO 2 removed from the air. A) SEM image of the CNT membrane surface, showing CNT tips emerging from the polymer. Mattershift technology for fuels production. —Rob McGinnis.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 28 projects for awards totaling $38 million to support early-stage research and development of innovative hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Selections span three topic areas: Topic 1: Platinum-Free Catalysts to Lower Fuel Cell Costs. Topic 3: Innovative Fuel Cell Concepts.

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MAY 19, 2018

The proposed program will develop and demonstrate a new technology for effectively consolidating porous sorbent materials; thus, enabling the high-density storage of onboard hydrogen and bringing the US into the forefront of the global fuel-cell powered vehicle market. Novel Fluorinated Ionomer for PEM Fuel Cells. .: Giner, Inc.:

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JULY 22, 2012

Cost reduction potential of a polymer fuel cell system using an ITM Power membrane. ITM Power has published figures showing what it believes is the highest ever polymer fuel cell power density using hydrogen as the fuel and ordinary air, rather than pure oxygen. DOE says that 2011 costs are $49/kW.

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APRIL 18, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) announced up to $39 million in available funding to support early stage research and development (R&D) of innovative hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. ( 2a) Integrated Energy Production and Hydrogen Fueling R&D.

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JUNE 3, 2020

A new machine-learning tool has significantly speeded up calculating the thermodynamics of chemical reactions, making it possible to identify the most promising fuels for lower emissions and greater engine efficiency in seconds. Developed as part of the U.S. An open-access paper on the work is published in Nature Communications.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

IONICS project teams are paving the way for technologies that overcome the limitations of current battery and fuel cell products. In particular, IONICS projects will work to improve energy storage and conversion technologies in three categories: transportation batteries, grid-level storage, and fuel cells.

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MARCH 5, 2016

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) is seeking feedback from the research community, relevant stakeholders, and industry on technical and economic barriers for fuel cell-related technologies. FCTO is specifically interested in information on cost avoidance and its effect on fuel prices.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The two organizations have partnered to develop the next generation of solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) for lithium batteries using CSIRO’s proprietary RAFT (Reversible Addition-Fragmentation chain Transfer) polymer technology and Piotrek’s Ion Conducting Polymers (ICP).

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The first Energy Earthshot, launched 7 June—Hydrogen Shot—seeks to reduce the cost of clean hydrogen by 80% to $1 per 1 kilogram in 1 decade (“1-1-1”). Achieving the Hydrogen Shot’s $1/kg cost goal will enable new markets for hydrogen, including energy storage, steel manufacturing, clean ammonia, and heavy-duty trucks.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $25 million in funding to reduce the cost of algal biofuels to less than $5 per gasoline gallon equivalent (gge) by 2019. DOE Assistant Secretary EERE David Danielson, the opening keynote speaker for the summit, said that the agency is “all in” on algae fuels. Algae Algal Fuels'

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AUGUST 10, 2012

Schematic diagram of a direct borohydride fuel cell employing oxygen, air or hydrogen peroxide as oxidant. The new DBFC uses a polymer fiber membrane (PFM) rather than a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM); metal oxides, such as LaNiO 3 and MnO 2 as cathode catalysts; and CoO as the anode catalyst. Source: Ma et al.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Teijin Limited is developing a non-platinum carbon alloy catalyst (CAC) for the cathode oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Less expensive and more readily available than platinum, PAN enables the catalyst to be produced at reduced cost and in higher volumes. Catalysts Fuel Cells'

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JUNE 6, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) issued a funding opportunity announcement for up to $4.6 million for 12–24 month projects with industry and academia ( DE-FOA-0000966 ) in support of innovations in fuel cell and hydrogen fuel technologies. including soft costs) are of interest.

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APRIL 10, 2017

Huber’s approach uses the oxygen already inherent in the biomass to produce high value oxygenated commodity chemicals that can be used to make performance polymer materials such as polyurethanes and polyesters. Plant biomass is typically about 40% oxygen by weight, while petroleum oil is less than 0.1%

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JANUARY 7, 2022

H-Mat is a national laboratory consortium co-led by SNL and PNNL, conducting cross-cutting R&D on the compatibility of metallic and polymer materials for hydrogen service. DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO) launched the HyBlend collaboration in 2021 and will coordinate related work through the DOE Hydrogen Program.

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AUGUST 9, 2013

A German-US collaboration including OH-Energy Germany, GmbH; the University of Delaware; Fraunhofer ICT; and Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research released initial results demonstrating 616 mW/cm 2 peak power density at 80 °C for a hydroxide (OH - ) exchange membrane (HEM) fuel cell. Fuel Cells Hydrogen' Earlier post.).

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MAY 26, 2015

for the next phase of Technology Solutions project work related to the development of a breakthrough catalyst technology intended to reduce manufacturing cost of certain proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. In a PEM fuel cell, the MEA is formed by placing a catalyst-coated membrane between two flow field plates.

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OCTOBER 31, 2014

The Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) aims to build on other early niche market successes in applications such as fuel cell-powered lift trucks by helping industry initiate another market in motive power applications and to enable a robust domestic supply base.

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AUGUST 29, 2016

Researchers at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (China) have synthesized an advanced catalytic layer in the membrane electroide assembly (MEA) for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) using vertically aligned polymer–polypyrrole (PPy) nanowire arrays as ordered catalyst supports. The mass activity is 1.08-fold

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MAY 14, 2013

DOE’s Fuel Cell Technologies (FCT) Office would like feedback on the “ 2013 Hydrogen Compression, Storage, and Dispensing Cost Reduction Workshop Final Report ”, with specific interest in which of the topics identified in the report are the most relevant to cost reduction at the hydrogen refueling station (forecourt).

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JUNE 24, 2023

Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and their Canadian partners have designed a low-cost photoreactor design for solar-driven synthesis. The photoreactors have a low level of complexity, are readily manufacturable via mass fabrication techniques in polymers, and are easy to adapt to diverse photocatalysts.

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JANUARY 18, 2014

As described in multiple DOE reports, the main barriers to widespread PEV commercialization are the cost; performance and life; and abuse tolerance of high?energy Specifically: the current cost of high?energy pressure fuel injection, and higher pressure engine operation, for implementing the clean diesel combustion strategy.

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JULY 31, 2020

million from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop and validate technology that will reduce the cost of manufacturing high-performance carbon fiber by 25% to make composite natural gas or hydrogen fuel tanks to power cars and trucks. Four of the 18 projects focus on composite fuel tanks. —IACMI CEO John Hopkins.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

In order to reduce the cost of next-generation polymer electrolyte fuel cells for vehicles, researchers have been developing alternatives to the prohibitively expensive platinum and platinum-group metal (PGM) catalysts currently used in fuel cell electrodes. milligram of Pt per centimeter squared.

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MARCH 15, 2022

Due to the high-temperature operation, Advent’s MEAs—the heart of the fuel cell—can work with impure hydrogen that can be reformed onboard from methanol, natural gas, and other renewable fuels. This development will revolutionize the fuel cell industry.

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AUGUST 27, 2015

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new fuel cell catalyst using earth-abundant materials with performance that is comparable to platinum in laboratory tests. The team also observed improved fuel cell durability. Image courtesy Di-Jia Liu) Click to enlarge. —Shui et al.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

ITM Power reported that a recently completed three-year collaboration project co-funded by the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB) resulted in a new alkaline solid polymer membrane for an electrolyzer. The alkaline environment enables alternative, lower cost non-precious metal catalyst materials to be used.

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

A team at University College London (UCL) has used a lung-inspired approach to designing flow fields to improve significantly the performance of polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Current PEM fuel cell designs typically use serpentine flow fields to transport species to and from the membrane electrode assembly. Background.

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JUNE 9, 2017

million for 30 new projects aimed at discovery and development of novel, low-cost materials necessary for hydrogen production and storage and for fuel cells onboard light-duty vehicles. More than 2,000 fuel cell vehicles have been sold or leased in the US since 2015. The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced approximately $15.8

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Ranges of automotive fuel cell system costs at mass manufactured volume using technology from three UK companies supported by the Carbon Trust. Independent analysis commissioned by the Carbon Trust predicts current polymer fuel cell technology will cost $49/kW in automotive applications when manufactured at mass scale (i.e.

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APRIL 30, 2022

NGen has now announced $76 million in funding for 15 new industry-led consortia that will execute projects in strategic areas such as critical minerals & metals, traction battery & efficiency gains, power electronics, fuel cells, and lightweight materials. Center of Excellence for High Volume Manufacturing of Hydrogen Fuel Cells.

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