The Catrode Project - new Catalysts for Green Hydrogen production at industrial scale

Catrode 项目 - 工业规模绿色氢生产的新型催化剂

• 批准号: 10034314
• 金额: $ 37.39万
• 依托单位: LATENT DRIVE LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10034314
• 关键词: Catrode; Project; new; Catalysts; Green

Latent Drive Ltd have won funding from Innovate UK to develop the **Catrode**, a combined catalyst and electrode for making Green Hydrogen by electrolysis of water. Catrodes are simple to mass produce, durable, efficient and provide an alternative to rare platinum group metals.Latent Drive Ltd is an early stage deep-tech start-up. Its founders are pursuing an engineering approach to electro-chemistry, moving from an academic mindset to industrial scale production. We successfully completed the Oxygen Cell project in 2021, supported by Innovate UK with £75K funding, as part of the UK's pandemic response. This combined electrolyser and fuel cell technology to extract pure oxygen from the atmosphere for medical use. This project brought home to us the high cost and fragility of conventional catalysts for electrolysis of water.The UK Government's Net Zero Strategy projects a 1000x increase in UK electrolyser capacity by 2035, and similar plans are being made across the world. This degree of scale-up is difficult to comprehend but is necessary to replace the huge quantities of fossil fuels that our economies are dependent on.Electrolysers powered by off-shore wind are currently dependent on rare and expensive materials. State-of-the-art electrolyser technology suits off-shore wind power, but the acidic chemistry demands exotic materials including Iridium catalysts. We need to scale up a thousand-fold, but there is simply not enough Iridium and platinum available for the world to produce Green Hydrogen at the scale needed to avert climate change."_Current production of iridium and platinum for PEM electrolysers will only support an estimated 3 to 7.5 GW annual manufacturing capacity, compared to an annual requirement of 100 GW by 2030_" (IRENA report 2020)There is a large body of published academic research on alternative catalysts for Green Hydrogen production. But investment and innovation are needed to move from the lab to the factory, and mass produce these catalysts.Latent Drive has solved the problem of conducting catalytic activation of stainless steel at industrial scale, developing unique know-how which we have protected with patents. The support from Innovate UK means we can build Catalytic Activation machines that have 1000x greater capacity than the laboratory instruments currently available -- powerful enough to activate Catrodes for the Mega Watt scale electrolysers which are driven by offshore wind turbines. **Catrode -- the catalyst is the electrode; the electrode is the catalyst!**

Latent Drive Ltd 已获得 Innovate UK 的资助，开发 **Catrode**，这是一种通过电解水制造绿色氢的组合催化剂和电极。 Catrode 易于大规模生产，耐用、高效，并提供稀有铂族的替代品。 Metals.Latent Drive Ltd 是一家处于早期阶段的深科技初创公司，其创始人正在寻求电化学工程方法，从学术思维转向工业规模生产。 2021 年，由创新英国提供 7.5 万英镑资金支持，作为英国应对流行病的一部分，该项目结合了电解槽和燃料电池技术，从大气中提取纯氧用于医疗用途，该项目让我们认识到传统技术的高成本和脆弱性。英国政府的净零排放战略预计到 2035 年英国电解槽容量将增加 1000 倍，世界各地也正在制定类似的计划。很难理解，但却是取代我们经济所依赖的大量化石燃料所必需的。由海上风电提供动力的电解槽目前依赖于稀有且昂贵的材料。岸上风力发电，但酸性化学需要包括铱催化剂在内的奇异材料。我们需要将规模扩大一千倍，但世界上根本没有足够的铱和铂来生产避免气候变化所需的规模的绿色氢。 “_目前用于 PEM 电解槽的铱和铂产量只能支持估计 3 至 7.5 GW 的年制造能力，而到 2030 年的年需求量将达到 100 GW_”（IRENA 报告 2020）有大量已发表的学术研究但需要投资和创新才能从实验室转移到工厂，并大规模生产这些催化剂。潜在驱动已经解决了这个问题。解决了在工业规模上进行不锈钢催化活化的问题，开发了我们受专利保护的独特专有技术。在创新英国的支持下，我们可以制造比现有实验室仪器容量大 1000 倍的催化活化机器——功能强大。足以激活由海上风力涡轮机驱动的兆瓦级电解槽的 Catrodes **Catrode - 催化剂是电极；电极是催化剂！**