HT-PEMFC with Danish industry in the lead is on the threshold of market entry and consortium partners are committed to establish a production line of cell components at a production rate of 1-10 cells/s. Further reduction of cost and enhancement of durability and production reliability are the recognized unmet issues. This can be achieved by a low-TRL materials development effort alongside the existing high-TRL stack and system early market entry. This proposal is devoted to maturing new materials and processing techniques demonstrated in lab (TRL 2-4) aiming at scale up fabrication (TRL 5) and full commercial operation in prototype short stacks (TRL 6-7). The targets are a single cell power density increased from by 20%, an MEA lifetime of > 10000 hours, cycling degradation rate decrease of 35% and a total Pt loading decreased with 44% from 1.8 to 1.0 mg/cm2. High-capacity production methods are introduced to lower materials cost and match requirements for reproducibility, speed and feasibility. Solving these issues will greatly increase the performance of the HT-PEM technology and enable a cost-effective, competitive, and sustainable alternative drivetrain for vehicles and key fundamentals for a full commercial introduction of the next generation clean mobility based on HT-PEM fuel cells powered by renewable methanol. HT-PEM hybrid electric vehicles will significantly reduce greenhouse emissions from transportation while utilizing the existing infrastructure.

Methane emission from cattle is the single largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture and therefore represents an area in which meaningful reductions can be achieved. This project aims to reduce these emissions on a simple, scalable, and global level through addition of unharmful methane-consuming bacteria to cattle feed. The bacteria will act as an additive methane reduction agent while also producing valuable biomass with high protein content, reducing the energy lost through enteric fermentation significantly. The potential reduction of 50% GHG emissions on a per cow basis is expected to reduce GHG emissions by 360 mil kg CO2-eq, save 270 mil DKK in carbon fees for the farmers, and generate revenues of 15 mil DKK for GreenCow in 2030 and 14 billion DKK per year for Danish companies by 2040. On a global scale, the reductions in GHG emissions are expected to be 450 mil tonnes CO2-eq per year by 2050. Development of the feed additive, MetCap®, will take place within two areas: 1) Identification, development, and production of bacteria and necessary nutrients (WP1, WP2), and 2) validation of bacteria-induced methane reduction (WP3, WP4). Implementation will be achieved through on-going dialogue with feed producers (such as DanishAgro, who have shown interest in the project) as well as pilot-scale demonstration (TRL 6) within the project. Early involvement of regulatory authorities (WP5) will ensure that time to market is as short as possible.