End-of-life of fuel cell and hydrogen products : a state of the art

Férriz, Ana María (author), Bernad, Alfonso (author), Mori, Mitja (author), Fiorot, Sabina (author)

The Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH) technologies will play an important role in a future where greenhouse gasses emissions need to be reduced. Nevertheless, a huge implementation of these technologies must be addressed taking into account an eco friendly scope not only from the manufacturing perspective but also from the end-of-life scope. A classification of the materials has been done considering the importance of each of them. To obtain a complete overview of the problem, different criteria have been compared: the cost, the scarcity of the material and the affections these materials can cause not only to the environment but also to the humans. This classification has been used to identify which are the most critical materials. Moreover, other transversal issues have been studied as the regulations that apply to FCH technologies from a paneuropean perspective and the strategies to face the end-of-life of this equipment. A holistic point of view has been considered in order to see how the process of dismantling and recycling faces different problems and which milestones to achieve in a future with a deep market penetration are.

• Language: English
• Keywords: recycling, fuel cell, hydrogen, electrolysers, materials
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: Str. 12872-12879
• Numbering: Vol. 44, iss. 25
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-126313
• UDC: 620.925:579(045)
• ISSN on article: 0360-3199
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.09.176
• COBISS.SI-ID: 16334875
• Publication date in RUL: 16.04.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of hydrogen energy
• Shortened title: Int. j. hydrogen energy
• Publisher: Elsevier, Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC
• ISSN: 0360-3199
• COBISS.SI-ID: 3338511

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.
• Licensing start date: 16.04.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: recikliranje, gorivne celice, vodik, elektrolizerji, materiali

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: H2020
• Project number: 700190
• Name: New technologies and strategies for fuel cells and hydrogen technologies in the phase of recycling and dismantling
• Acronym: HYTECHCYCLING