Alkaline Fuel Cell Project LASER-CELL Goes Live
16 Feb 2012
AFC Energy has announced that the inaugural consortium meeting of project LASER-CELL recently took place at the company’s Dunsfold headquarters.
The project will develop innovative high-volume production technologies which can be used to manufacture alkaline fuel cell components, and will include comprehensive life-cycle and market analysis. The project will run in parallel with AFC Energy’s current development programme.
The project will exploit the expertise and resources of all the partners. Work will be carried out at the premises of each partner and will be coordinated and managed by AFC Energy. The consortium partners are:
As Fuel Cell Today previously announced, AFC Energy leads the consortium that was awarded a grant of €1.4 million towards the €2.9 million research and development project. The project is funded by the European Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH-JU) through the EU’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7).
Image: the LASER-CELL Consortium from left to right: Henrikki Pantsar (Cencorp); Matthieu Houllé (Nanocyl); Ian Williamson and Gene Lewis (AFC Energy); Tuukka Savisalo (Cencorp/Savcor); Julia Hicks (Air Products); Ilkka Vanttaja (VTT); Martin Thomas (AFC Energy); Petri Laakso (VTT); Christoph Hütten and Jürgen Roes (University of Duisburg-Essen); Mark Boland (AFC Energy).
Source: AFC Energy
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