As the hydrogen economy takes off, embedding circularity is critical to conserve precious resources and minimise the environmental impact of manufacturing fuel cells and electrolysers. While there are established routes to recycle the platinum group metals (PGMs) from these materials, often the ionomer isn’t recovered. Through our new HyRefine technology we’ve successfully demonstrated circularity for the PGMs and the valuable ionomer together.

"This is the first demonstration of a process that can recover both the ionomer and the PGM, thereby guaranteeing a fully circular secondary output, returning them back to new devices so they can be reused." - Johnathan McCree-Grey, Hydrogen Technologies Recycling Technical Lead

Following successful five litre lab scale demonstrations, we are now scaling up this technology to run 50 litre pilot trials in our facility in Brimsdown, UK.

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