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Deploying our fuel cell technology to decarbonise heavy duty mobility and large stationary power

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How Project Affects Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions:

Innovative PEM Fuel cell technology being currently deployed across mining, maritime, and large stationary (backup) power. EHG core innovative fuel cell technology under development is based on: 
- Uniquely simplified and re-designed FC stack at the micro level, making it significantly more compact, lightweight and efficient. It also simplifies the overall FC system architecture by reducing or eliminating auxiliary components, making it more efficient and cheaper. The first-generation product delivers a power density of 1.5 times that of leading competitors‚ products. 
- Completely new concept of fuel cell stack design and assembly with high micro precision, integrating proprietary machinery that will enable the production at scale of a 30kW stack in less than a minute at a cost of less than 100EUR/kW (vs 1,000 EURk/W currently). Radical cost reduction in fuel cells by process innovation in production with a sharply lower capex. 
- Our FC technology can operate with minimal effects of gravity and in any orientation, making it a great candidate in the automotive, space and aviation sectors as a power generator. When used with green hydrogen generated from renewables, it is a fully CO2-free source of energy. A representative example of where our solution can be applied is a fuel cell city bus [FCEB]. According to UITP 56% of total public transport demand in the EU in 2014 was accounted by bus journeys. That translates to roughly 100 million passengers traveling an average of t 20 km on any given working day. This number is only expected to rise in the future 
- UN's World Urbanization Prospect predicts Europe's urban population will increase up to about 80% in 2030. So as increasingly more cities seek to decarbonize their public transport services, the electrification of bus fleets represents a key factor towards achieving that goal. Bus fleets currently contribute to about 8% of transport emissions in Europe and 7% globally, amounting to around 87M tons of CO2-eq and 528M tons of CO2-eq respectively. To replace conventional diesel buses with zero-emission alternatives, fleet operators can resort to four options: trolleybuses, battery electric buses with overnight charging, battery electric buses with opportunity charging along the route, and FCEBs. FCEB have a range of 300 km, a short refueling time [f- 10 minutes] carried out at a centralized refueling station, and are the most flexible zero-emission solution. FCEBs however, have the highest initial cost. Bus manufacturers, our clients in this example, would seek to purchase FC stacks or systems to be integrated into their buses. Depending on their requirements, the delivery scope and level of integration may vary from FC stacks only to highly integrated FC systems that include all required peripheral components. There are currently 892,861 buses in circulation on Europe's roads today [ACEA] and a typical European client will be looking to have around 12.5% of its fleet operated by FC buses by 2030 [UITP]. That would represent about 111,600 new FCEBs rolling out in the next ten years in Europe alone. Extrapolating that to the global bus market would represent about 1 million FCEBs worldwide. A FCEB can be referenced to a conventional diesel bus and to alternative zero-emission solutions: trolleybuses, battery electric buses [BEB]. with overnight charging and opportunity charging solutions. Diesel buses -negative environmental impacts aside- are extremely good in terms of low purchasing price, range, route flexibility, refueling time.

Impact on Underrepresented Groups:

Our project supports economic diversity by drastically reducing the price of deploying hydrogen fuel cells, i.e. by 90+%. This will enable a much broader sector of the economy to adopt carbon free energy solutions than is currently practicable. In addition, it should foster innovation in applying it to the difficult to decarbonise sectors, such as maritime vessels, chemical industries, and even aviation. 
We have adopted diversity within our organisation as an active goal, believing in its ability to promote innovative thinking and successful long term growth. As such even our small team includes members from various (non-European) countries, and soon to be 1/3 of our engineers being female.

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