The Technion researchers opened a start-up based on this technology called H2Pro to convert the technology to a commercial application.
By Tamar Beeri, the Jerusalem Post, September 15, 2019
https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Technion-researchers-develop-eco-friendly-hydrogen-production-technology-601783
Dr. Hen Dotan , Avigail Landman , Prof. Avner Rothschild and Prof. Gideon Grader. (photo credit: CHEN GALILI) |
With 99% of the hydrogen being produced today originating from fossil fuels, the world is in "urgent need for cleaner and more environmentally-friendly alternatives for hydrogen production," according to the Technion spokesperson.
The process discovered by the Technion researchers, which would allow hydrogen to be produced in a more eco-friendly manner, is as follows: The chemical makeup of the anode (the electrode where the oxidation process takes place) changes intermittently in a cyclic process. The researchers developed their process based on this.
In the first stage, the electrode where the reduction takes place, known as the cathode, produces hydrogen by reducing water molecules while the anode changes its chemical composition without producing oxygen at the same time.
Afterwards, the cathode is passive while the anode produces oxygen by oxidizing water molecules. At the end of this, the anode returns to its original state and the cycle begins again.
The process is called Electrochemical–Thermally-Activated Chemical (E-TAC) water splitting and manages to decouple the hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions.
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