25 years’ experience in industrial catalyst market for diesel engine exhaust using PGMs, high-level management, entrepreneurship & market analysis
Master in Chemical engineering. Solid background in PGM recycling through master's thesis, student work and 1 year employment at Crimarec ApS
On board is:
Jens Christian Damsgaard (Chairman)
CRIMAREC was established in 2018 with the purpose of creating a platform for further development, commercialization and upscaling of the technology knowhow and Intellectual property right (IPR) created by knowledge institutions. Main focus of the company is end-of life products with contents of Platinum, Palladium, Iridium and Rhodium such as polymer fuel cells, catalyzed diesel particle filters (cDPFs) based on silicon carbide structures, electrolysers and specific electronic materials.
SDU / SCIENCE VENTURES
DANISH ENERGY AGENCY
EUDP - Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program
Ru
44 Ruthenium
101.07 2334
Os
76 Osmium
190.23 3033
Rh
45 Rhodium
102.906 1963
Ir
77 Iridium
192.22 2446
Pd
46 Palladium
106.42 1555
Pt
78 Platinum
195.08 1769
Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) are scarce and valuable natural resources, which are backbones of the modern society. Demand of PGMs increased dramatically in the past decades. This renders huge burden to not only mining industries, natural reserves and the environment, but also waste management and the associated health issue due to improper disposal. Re-covery, Re-cycling and Re-use of PGMs from End-of-Life products in the development and manufacturing of new products are paramount to support sustainability and circular economy.
The traditional re-cycling process using pyrometallurgy, going back nearly half century, is rather well developed. However, with the increasing demand for re-cycling, stronger awareness of environment impact, regulation from authorities and property transition of the materials to be re-cycled, the pyrometallurgical process is challenged. Challenges are processing of high carbon based products and volume recriements to comply with future End-of-Life products. Moreover, the classic route requires heavy initial investment, large operation, maintense cost and non-stop centralized processing. This requires huge transportation efforts of scrap materials and leaves little freedom for further expansion and flexibility. Thus, PGMs re-cycling industries and the associated stakeholders along the value chain must look for alternative solutions.
The global resolution on renewable energies and independency of fossil fuels drives an unforeseeable expansion of renewable industries. Polymer fuel cell and electrolyzer manufactures are forecasted to have a huge demand on PGMs, especially platinum, ruthenium and iridium. Their recycling and circular economy are becoming part of those companies’ roadmap. However, because of fluorine and carbon containing components, burning will lead to huge environment impact and exorbitant facility damage. Therefore, fuel cell electrodes cannot be handled using traditional method.
Copyright © Alle rettigheder forbeholdes
