Hyundai and Advent Technologies have signed a technology assessment, sales, and development agreement to bring green energy solutions to current high-carbon applications using fuel cell technology.
Hyundai will provide catalysts to Advent for testing in its proprietary Membrane Electrode Assemblies (MEAs), and Advent will assist Hyundai in meeting its fuel cell project requirements.
After the first phase of the project is completed, the companies will work closely together to define specific product requirements, collaborative product goals, and milestones for achieving established goals and plans for phase 2, which will include Advent’s stack cooling technology.
L’Innovator, Advent’s joint development program with the US Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, is currently developing the new Advent MEAs to be tested by Hyundai. MEAs are the most important components of a fuel cell because they determine the end system’s performance, lifetime, weight, and cost.
Compared to the incumbent low temperature PEM technology, which is limited to an operating temperature of below 100oC, Advent MEAs operate at a high temperature (80oC to 240oC). The ability to operate at a high temperature has a number of benefits, including efficient heat removal in heavy-duty mobility applications, making Advent’s high temperature PEM an ideal technology for trucks, aviation, and marine applications.
