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!**

潜在Drive Ltd赢得了Innovate UK的资金，以开发** catrode **，这是一种组合的催化剂和电极，用于通过水的电解来制造绿色氢。 Catrodes易于大规模生产，耐用，高效，并为稀有铂集金属提供了替代方案。LatatentDrive Ltd是一家早期的深技术初创企业。它的创始人正在采用工程方法来进行电化学，从学术思维方式转变为工业规模的生产。作为英国大流行响应的一部分，我们在2021年成功完成了氧气细胞项目，并获得了7.5万英镑的资金。这种将电子和燃料电池技术组合在一起，从大气中提取纯氧气以供医学使用。该项目为我们带来了用于水电解的常规催化剂的高成本和脆弱性。英国政府的净零战略项目到2035年英国电解器的容量增加了1000倍，并且在世界范围内制定了类似的计划。这种规模化的程度很难完成，但必须取代我们经济取决于的大量化石燃料。最先进的电解器技术适合近海风能，但是酸性化学需要外来材料，包括虹膜催化剂。我们需要扩大一千倍的规模，但是除了避免气候变化所需的规模上，世界上根本没有足够的虹膜和铂金可以生产绿色的氢。” _ _ PEM电解器的虹膜和铂金的生产只能支持大约3至7.5 GW的年度制造能力，与伊斯兰少年的每年一份较高的二GW批准为2020年的年度元素。用于绿色氢生产的催化剂。但是，需要投资和创新才能从实验室转移到工厂，大规模生产这些催化剂。LatatentDrive解决了以工业规模进行不锈钢进行催化激活的问题，从而开发了我们通过专利保护的独特知识。 Innovate UK的支持意味着我们可以构建比当前可用的实验室仪器大1000倍的催化激活机 - 足以激活由离岸风力涡轮机驱动的Mega Watt Scale Electrolysers的Catrodes。 ** catrode-催化剂是电极；电极是催化剂！**