Newhydrogen, Inc. Provides Updates on Its Green Hydrogen Technology Development
June 01, 2021 at 03:01 am EDT
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NewHydrogen, Inc. provided an important update on the progress of its green hydrogen technology development under a sponsored research agreement with the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). The company’s sponsored research program at UCLA is currently focused on replacing iridium, a precious metal found only in asteroids, with earth abundant materials that meet or exceed the performance characteristics of iridium. The objective is to develop inexpensive and robust materials with an outstanding ability to catalyze the electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction (OER) while achieving overall high performance water electrolysis for hydrogen production. The company previously reported that a baseline non-precious metal based OER catalyst was selected and successfully synthesized upon adjusting its physical parameters and conditions to exhibit the best material characteristics. The researchers have recently created a non-precious metal based catalyst that demonstrated significant improvement of OER in acidic conditions by substituting part of the existing metal element in the aforementioned catalyst material structure. Though the intrinsic activity and OER kinetics of the new catalyst may be somewhat lower than those of precious metal based catalysts, its low cost and high durability make it a good candidate toward the commercial water electrolysis systems operating at high current densities. The researchers plan on scaling up the process for studies in electrolyzers in a later phase. Eventually, a fully functional hydrogen-producing electrolyzer will serve as a reference prototype to help electrolyzer manufacturers worldwide to assess NewHydrogen’s breakthrough technology to produce low-cost green hydrogen.
NewHydrogen, Inc. is a developer of clean energy technologies. The Company is developing ThermoLoop a technology that uses clean energy and water to produce the green hydrogen. The Company is focused on developing technologies to reduce or replace rare earth materials with inexpensive earth-abundant materials in electrolyzers to help usher in a green hydrogen economy. The ThermoLoop is a low-cost thermochemical process to split water using inexpensive heat, instead of expensive electricity. This technology water as a feedstock and reduces the cost of hydrogen production by eliminating electricity used in existing electrolyzers. Its green technology applications include the green electric grid, fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV), battery electric vehicles (BEV), hydrogen fueling stations, lower carbon gas infrastructure and air taxis.