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Stanford researchers make ammonia from air and water microdroplets

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MAY 1, 2023

Stanford researchers, with a colleague from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, have developed a simple and environmentally sound way to make ammonia with tiny droplets of water and nitrogen from the air. Water microdroplets are the hydrogen source for N 2 in contact with Fe 3 O 4. The conversion rate reaches 32.9 ± 1.38

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Rice U team creates low-cost, high-efficiency integrated device for solar-driven water splitting; solar leaf

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MAY 5, 2020

Rice University researchers have created an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce hydrogen fuel. The current flows to the catalysts that turn water into hydrogen and oxygen, with a sunlight-to-hydrogen efficiency as high as 6.7%. It utilizes water and sunlight to get chemical fuels.

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Heliogen and Bloom Energy demonstrate production of low-cost green hydrogen; concentrated solar and high-temp electrolysis

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The extended operating time of Heliogen’s technology and Bloom Energy’s ability to utilize heat efficiently is designed to reduce the cost of green hydrogen production compared to competing solutions. Because it operates at high temperatures, the Bloom Electrolyzer requires less energy to break up water molecules and produce hydrogen.

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Argonne-led team develops new low-cost cobalt-based catalyst for PEM electrolysis

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MAY 31, 2023

A multi-institutional team led by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) has developed a low-cost cobalt-based catalyst for the production of hydrogen in a proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer (PEMWE). volts (Nafion 212 membrane) and low degradation in an accelerated stress test.

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DGIST, PNNL team develops efficient, low-cost anode material for water electrolysis

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

A commercial Pt/C cathode-assisted, core–shell Co@NC–anode water electrolyzer delivers 10 mA cm ?2 V—70 mV lower than that of the IrO 2 –anode water electrolyzer. In electrocatalytic water splitting, oxygen gas generates in the anode due to the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). 2 at a cell voltage of 1.59

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HyperSolar reaches 1.25 V for water-splitting with its self-contained low-cost photoelectrochemical nanosystem

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

volts (V) of water-splitting voltage with its novel low-cost electrolysis technology. The theoretical minimum voltage needed to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen is 1.23 Nanosystem for water electrolysis. HyperSolar, Inc. announced that it had reached 1.25 V (at 25 °C at pH 0). Click to enlarge.

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PNNL team develops new low-cost method to convert captured CO2 to methane

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

By using a water-lean post-combustion capture solvent, (N-(2-ethoxyethyl)-3-morpholinopropan-1-amine) (2-EEMPA), they achieved a greater than 90% conversion of captured CO 2 to hydrocarbons—mostly methane—in the presence of a heterogenous Ru catalyst under relatively mild reaction conditions (170 °C and 2 pressure). Heldebrant, D.,

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Researchers in Australia develop low-cost water-splitting catalyst that offers comparable performance to platinum

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

Iron and nickel, which are found in abundance on Earth, would replace precious metals ruthenium, platinum and iridium that up until now are regarded as benchmark catalysts in the water-splitting process. —Suryanto et al. —Suryanto et al. Suryanto et al.

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EPFL team develops low-cost water splitting cell with solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of 12.3%

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Michael Grätzel at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland has developed a highly efficient and low-cost water-splitting cell combining an advanced perovskite tandem solar cell and a bi-functional Earth-abundant catalyst. Splitting water requires an applied voltage of at least 1.23 V and up to 1.5

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WSU team develops highly-efficient, low-cost nickel-iron nanofoam for OER for water splitting

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FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Researchers at Washington State University, with colleagues at Argonne National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, have combined inexpensive nickel and iron in a very simple, five-minute process to create large amounts of a high-quality catalyst required for water splitting. SEM image of NiFe nanofoams. Source: WSU.

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Stanford team reports new low-cost, non-precious metal catalyst for water splitting with performance close to platinum

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AUGUST 22, 2014

Researchers at Stanford University, with colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions, have developed a nickel-based electrocatalyst for low-cost water-splitting for hydrogen production with performance close to that of much more expensive commercial platinum electrocatalysts. V with good stability.

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SwRI, UTSA researchers show biochar is low-cost, effective method to treat fracking water

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. —Maoqi Feng, SwRI. —Zhigang Feng, USTA.

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ArcelorMittal makes US$5M investment in H2Pro to support novel new water-splitting technology E-TAC

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JANUARY 26, 2022

H2Pro is developing a new way of producing hydrogen from water. Similar to electrolysis, its technology, E-TAC (Electrochemical – Thermally Activated Chemical)—developed at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology—uses electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. HHV) inside the reactors and a 95% system efficiency.

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MIT engineers develop process that can treat produced water from gas wells at relatively low cost

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

A new desalination process developed by engineers at MIT could treat produced water—deep water, often heavily laden with salts and minerals—from natural gas wells at relatively low cost. In fact, he adds, “ The biggest advantage is when you deal with high salinity. ”.

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DOE awards $22.1M to 10 nuclear technology projects including clean hydrogen production

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MAY 10, 2023

In collaboration with NE, DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office will provide funding and project oversight for the two hydrogen production–related projects that were selected: General Electric Global Research, Scaled Solid Oxide Co-Electrolysis for Low-Cost Syngas Synthesis from Nuclear Energy.

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Swiss team develops effective and low-cost solar water-splitting device; 14.2% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency

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AUGUST 25, 2016

As the V OC of the presented c-Si cells is only ∼600 mV, four cells need to be connected in series to achieve stable water splitting performance. We demonstrate in this study that, thanks to their high V OC , three series-connected SHJ cells can already stably drive the water splitting reaction at unprecedented SHE. Schüttauf et al.

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US/China team develops robust, stable Ni/Fe OER catalyst for water-splitting at low overpotentials

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JUNE 2, 2018

A team from the University of Houston and Hunan Normal University in China has developed an active and durable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalyst for water splitting that meets commercial crtieria for current densities at low overpotentials. to deliver 200 mA cm -2 , unsatisfactory for the commercial requirements of 1.8-2.4

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MIT Researchers Identify New Low-Cost Water-Splitting Catalyst

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MAY 12, 2010

Daniel Nocera and his associates have found another formulation, based on inexpensive and widely available materials, that can efficiently catalyze the splitting of water molecules using electricity. Earlier post.). Materials for the new catalyst are even more abundant and inexpensive than those required for the first. Earlier post.)

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Lithium-ion battery recycler ABTC expands operations and capacity with newly purchased facility

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MARCH 9, 2023

Most recently in November 2022, ABTC was selected for a competitive US DOE grant for a $20-million project to develop and commercialize a set of next-generation battery recycling technologies to even further enhance the recovery of recycled products and reduce the cost of operations.

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UH team develops new, highly efficient and durable OER catalyst for water splitting

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MAY 16, 2017

Researchers at the University of Houston have developed a catalyst—composed of easily available, low-cost materials and operating far more efficiently than previous catalyst—that can split water into hydrogen and oxygen. A paper on their work is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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Eneos opens demo plant in Australia to produce MCH liquid organic hydrogen carrier

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

ENEOS Corporation has constructed a demonstration plant in Brisbane, Australia, to produce methylcyclohexane (MCH), a liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC), using its proprietary low-cost electrochemical synthesis of organic hydride method Direct MCH. Eneos’ Direct MCH uses an electrolyzer to produce MCH directly from water.

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Columbia team develops simple, low-cost, scaleable membraneless electrolyzer fabricated with 3D printing for H2 production

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MAY 9, 2016

Researchers at Columbia University are investigating the use of membraneless electrochemical flow cells for hydrogen production from water electrolysis that are based on angled mesh flow-through electrodes. O’Neil et al. Click to enlarge. —O’Neil et al. —O’Neil et al. O’Neil, Corey D. Christian, David E. Brown, and Daniel V.

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Saudi Aramco R&D proposes SuperButol as new low-cost high-octane blend component

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JANUARY 27, 2017

A team from Saudi Aramco Research and Development Center has developed a novel low-cost, high-octane gasoline blend component it calls SuperButol. Product stream from the reactor is sent to the high pressure and low pressure separators to remove the majority of unreacted water to be recycled after azeotropic distillation.

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DOE’s $10M Advanced Water Splitting Materials Consortium accelerating development of green hydrogen production

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

The Energy Department (DOE) recently announced $10 million, subject to appropriations, to support the launch of the HydroGEN Advanced Water Splitting Materials Consortium ( HydroGEN ). Currently, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) funds research and development of low-carbon hydrogen production pathways.

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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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JANUARY 11, 2014

But until now, flow batteries have relied on chemicals that are expensive or hard to maintain, driving up the cost of storing energy. Vanadium is used in the most commercially advanced flow-battery technology now in development, but it sets a rather high floor on the cost per kilowatt-hour at any scale. Commercialization.

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Study shows a much cheaper catalyst can generate hydrogen in a commercial electrolyzer

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OCTOBER 15, 2019

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown for the first time that a low-cost, non-precious metal cobalt phosphide (CoP) catalyst catalyst can split water and generate hydrogen gas for hours on end in the harsh environment of a commercial device.

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HyperSolar working with Suzhou GH New Energy to accelerate manufacturing of renewable solar hydrogen panels

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APRIL 14, 2020

the developer of a technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water ( earlier post ), is working with Suzhou GH New Energy Co. Gen 2 will use easily scalable low-cost electrochemical processing for manufacturing multi-junction nanoparticles for PEC production of hydrogen. HyperSolar, Inc.,

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Sandia team boosts hydrogen production activity by molybdenum disulfide four-fold; low-cost catalyst for solar-driven water splitting

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

The improved catalyst has already released four times the amount of hydrogen ever produced by MoS 2 from water. Because of this, a commercial catalyst would require a huge amount of MOS 2. Water splitting is a challenging reaction. An open access paper on their study is published in the journal Nature Communications.

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Topsoe to build world’s largest SOEC electrolyzer production facility; 500 MW scalable to 5 GW; focusing on Power-to-X

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MAY 24, 2022

The Topsoe SOEC electrolyzer is a compact stack built primarily from abundant, low-cost ceramic materials enclosed within a metal housing. To produce hydrogen, it utilizes electricity to split water molecules (H 2 O) into hydrogen (H 2 ) and oxygen (O 2 ). —Roeland Baan, CEO at Topsoe.

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Siemens Energy secures 50 MW electrolyzer order from European Energy for first large-scale eMethanol project

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MARCH 3, 2022

European Energy , a Danish developer and operator of green energy projects, has ordered a 50 MW electrolyzer from Siemens Energy for use in developing the first large-scale commercial e-Methanol production facility. Start of commercial methanol production is planned for second half of 2023.

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Raven SR & Hyzon Motors to build up to 100 waste-to-hydrogen hubs

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APRIL 28, 2021

a global supplier of hydrogen fuel cell-powered commercial vehicles, announced a joint venture to build up to 100 hydrogen hubs across the United States and globally. into locally produced, renewable hydrogen for Hyzon’s fleet of zero-emission commercial vehicles. Raven SR , a renewable fuels company, and Hyzon Motors Inc.,

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UCSC team develops high-performance nanostructured composite catalyst for water-splitting to produce hydrogen

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JANUARY 17, 2018

A low-cost, nanostructured composite material developed by researchers at UC Santa Cruz has shown performance comparable to Pt/C as a catalyst for the electrochemical splitting of water to produce hydrogen. —Peng et al. Resources.

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University of Houston team demonstrates new efficient solar water-splitting catalyst for hydrogen production

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

Researchers from the University of Houston (UH) have developed a cobalt(II) oxide (CoO) nanocrystalline catalyst that can carry out overall water splitting with a solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of around 5%. The generation of hydrogen from water using sunlight could potentially form the basis of a clean and renewable source of energy.

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Linear Labs closes $4.5M seed round to fund commercialization of new electric motor technology

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MARCH 27, 2019

The data has shown that the Linear Labs (LL) configuration is capable of producing nearly 100% more torque and continuous power than its commercial counterparts within the same frame size and geometrical envelope. With virtually no end windings, the LL machine allows for reduced copper losses. kW/kg respectively, at a base speed of 3000 RPM.

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NREL and Electric Hydrogen partner to develop high-performance electrolyzer components

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OCTOBER 9, 2021

million project will diagnose sources of degradation in commercial electrolysis cells and will validate advanced designs that use higher stack currents. Electric Hydrogen is engineering a high-performance product for water electrolysis—something that could scale up to significant commercial applications. The three-year, $3.6-million

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MIT team outlines path to low-cost solar-to-fuels devices; the artificial leaf

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MARCH 5, 2013

The new analysis follows up on 2011 research that produced a proof of concept of an artificial leaf—a small device that, when placed in a container of water and exposed to sunlight, would produce bubbles of hydrogen and oxygen. The original demonstration leaf in 2011 had low efficiencies, converting less than 4.7% Earlier post.)

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New nanoparticle copper compound cathode could enable low-cost, long-life and high-power potassium-ion batteries for grid storage

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NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Stationary energy storage systems that can operate for many cycles, at high power, with high round-trip energy efficiency, and at low cost are required. Cost is a greater concern. We decided we needed to develop a new chemistry if we were going to make low-cost batteries and battery electrodes for the power grid.

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UH team develops fast, cost-efficient method to grow OER catalyst for seawater splitting

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JANUARY 29, 2021

A team of researchers led by Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, has developed an oxygen-evolving catalyst that takes just minutes to grow at room temperature on commercially available nickel foam. If the cost is prohibitive, it will not make it to market. —Yu et al.

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Borla Performance Industries developing muffler/membrane unit for exhaust water extraction with ORNL nanopore membrane technology

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Borla will combine this with its diesel exhaust technology to create a low-cost, novel system that doubles as a device to extract potable water from diesel and other internal combustion exhaust. For the recovery of previously wasted energy from relatively low temperature (.

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Haldor Topsoe to build large-scale SOEC electrolyzer manufacturing facility to meet customer needs for green hydrogen

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MARCH 7, 2021

With efficiencies above 90%, Topsoe’s proprietary SOEC electrolyzers offer superior performance in electrolysis of water into hydrogen—e.g., The SOEC is a ceramic cell that uses electricity to split water molecules (H 2 O) into hydrogen (H 2 ) and oxygen (O 2 ). —Amy Hebert, Chief Commercial Officer of Haldor Topsoe.

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Rice University lab develops dual-surface graphene electrode to split water into hydrogen and oxygen

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AUGUST 4, 2017

Researchers in the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour have produced dual-surface laser-induced graphene (LIG) electrodes on opposing faces of a plastic sheet that split water into hydrogen on one side and oxygen on the other side. Illustration of the integration of catalytic LIG electrodes as a full water electrolyzer. (a)

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SunHydrogen extends research agreement with University of Iowa; development of Gen 2 multi-junction nanoparticles for hydrogen production

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JUNE 30, 2020

SunHydrogen , the developer of a technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water, has extended its sponsored research agreement with the University of Iowa through 31 August 2020. The knowledge we have gained through the GEN 1 process will accelerate our path to commercialization for GEN 2.

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Ground-breaking on Haru Oni eFuels plant|in Chile; Porsche to use in motor sports from 2022

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Siemens Energy has also already started preparatory work for the next major commercial phase of the project. We’re jointly developing and realising the world’s first integrated and commercial large-scale plant for producing synthetic, climate-neutral fuels. neutral fuel using low-cost green wind power.

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AW-Energy entering green hydrogen market with wave energy device

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

AW-Energy Oy is entering the commercial hydrogen market by introducing a combined WaveRoller and HydrogenHub process for the production of green hydrogen. Wave energy holds the greatest potential to generate constant low-cost green hydrogen. The technology can be deployed as single units or in farms.

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Stanford researchers make ammonia from air and water microdroplets

Rice U team creates low-cost, high-efficiency integrated device for solar-driven water splitting; solar leaf

Heliogen and Bloom Energy demonstrate production of low-cost green hydrogen; concentrated solar and high-temp electrolysis

Argonne-led team develops new low-cost cobalt-based catalyst for PEM electrolysis

DGIST, PNNL team develops efficient, low-cost anode material for water electrolysis

HyperSolar reaches 1.25 V for water-splitting with its self-contained low-cost photoelectrochemical nanosystem

PNNL team develops new low-cost method to convert captured CO2 to methane

Researchers in Australia develop low-cost water-splitting catalyst that offers comparable performance to platinum

EPFL team develops low-cost water splitting cell with solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of 12.3%

WSU team develops highly-efficient, low-cost nickel-iron nanofoam for OER for water splitting

Stanford team reports new low-cost, non-precious metal catalyst for water splitting with performance close to platinum

SwRI, UTSA researchers show biochar is low-cost, effective method to treat fracking water

ArcelorMittal makes US$5M investment in H2Pro to support novel new water-splitting technology E-TAC

MIT engineers develop process that can treat produced water from gas wells at relatively low cost

DOE awards $22.1M to 10 nuclear technology projects including clean hydrogen production

Swiss team develops effective and low-cost solar water-splitting device; 14.2% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency

US/China team develops robust, stable Ni/Fe OER catalyst for water-splitting at low overpotentials

MIT Researchers Identify New Low-Cost Water-Splitting Catalyst

Lithium-ion battery recycler ABTC expands operations and capacity with newly purchased facility

UH team develops new, highly efficient and durable OER catalyst for water splitting

Eneos opens demo plant in Australia to produce MCH liquid organic hydrogen carrier

Columbia team develops simple, low-cost, scaleable membraneless electrolyzer fabricated with 3D printing for H2 production

Saudi Aramco R&D proposes SuperButol as new low-cost high-octane blend component

DOE’s $10M Advanced Water Splitting Materials Consortium accelerating development of green hydrogen production

Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

Study shows a much cheaper catalyst can generate hydrogen in a commercial electrolyzer

HyperSolar working with Suzhou GH New Energy to accelerate manufacturing of renewable solar hydrogen panels

Sandia team boosts hydrogen production activity by molybdenum disulfide four-fold; low-cost catalyst for solar-driven water splitting

Topsoe to build world’s largest SOEC electrolyzer production facility; 500 MW scalable to 5 GW; focusing on Power-to-X

Siemens Energy secures 50 MW electrolyzer order from European Energy for first large-scale eMethanol project

Raven SR & Hyzon Motors to build up to 100 waste-to-hydrogen hubs

UCSC team develops high-performance nanostructured composite catalyst for water-splitting to produce hydrogen

University of Houston team demonstrates new efficient solar water-splitting catalyst for hydrogen production

Linear Labs closes $4.5M seed round to fund commercialization of new electric motor technology

NREL and Electric Hydrogen partner to develop high-performance electrolyzer components

MIT team outlines path to low-cost solar-to-fuels devices; the artificial leaf

New nanoparticle copper compound cathode could enable low-cost, long-life and high-power potassium-ion batteries for grid storage

UH team develops fast, cost-efficient method to grow OER catalyst for seawater splitting

Borla Performance Industries developing muffler/membrane unit for exhaust water extraction with ORNL nanopore membrane technology

Haldor Topsoe to build large-scale SOEC electrolyzer manufacturing facility to meet customer needs for green hydrogen

Rice University lab develops dual-surface graphene electrode to split water into hydrogen and oxygen

SunHydrogen extends research agreement with University of Iowa; development of Gen 2 multi-junction nanoparticles for hydrogen production

Ground-breaking on Haru Oni eFuels plant|in Chile; Porsche to use in motor sports from 2022

AW-Energy entering green hydrogen market with wave energy device

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