Absstract of: WO2024160929A1
An electrode for use in the electrolysis of water under alkaline conditions, comprising a nickel metal substrate, a ceramic material with a perovskite-type structure comprising an oxide of at least one metal selected from among lanthanides including lanthanum, cerium and praseodymium, where said ceramic material is forming a coating on said nickel metal substrate, and metal nanoparticles are socketed into the said ceramic material. The metal nanoparticles facing the alkaline solution have electrochemical activity, whereas the metal nanoparticles facing the said metal substrate form an anchoring points between the metal substrate and the said ceramic material.
Absstract of: WO2025229398A1
There is described a hydrogen production system comprising: a gasification sub-system to produce a syngas stream from a biomass and/or refuse derived fuel feed stream; and a steam methane reformer (SMR) sub-system to produce an SMR syngas stream from a hydrocarbon feed, and to produce a low carbon hydrogen final product by integrating the syngas stream from the gasification sub-system and the SMR syngas stream.
Absstract of: DE102024112692A1
Eine Plattenanordnung (1) eines Stapels elektrochemischer Zellen (2) umfasst ein zumindest teilweise als 3D-Druck-Element ausgebildetes Plattenelement (3), in welchem mehrere Schichten (6, 7, 8) parallel zueinander angeordnet sind, die jeweils durchbrochene, zur Durchleitung eines Fluids geeignete Strukturen aufweisen, wobei die Feinheit der Durchbrechungen (17) von Schicht (6, 7, 8) zu Schicht (6, 7, 8) variiert, und wobei ein Temperatursensor (19), der an ein Kabel (20) angeschlossen ist, welches durch mehrere der genannten Schichten (6, 7, 8) verläuft, an diejenige Schicht (8) grenzt, welche die feinsten Durchbrechungen (17) aufweist.
Absstract of: WO2025231009A2
A method of catalytic ammonia decomposition is provided. The method includes: flowing ammonia into a reactor charged with a medium entropy metal alloy (MEA) catalyst including a first principal metal, a second principal metal, and a third principal metal, where each of the principal metals is independently selected without repetition from the group consisting of Co, Cr, Fe, Mn, Ni, Al, Cu, Zn, Ti, Zr, Mo, V, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, W, Re, Ir, Pt, Au, Ce, Y, Yb, Sn, Ga, In, and Be; and catalytically decomposing the ammonia into hydrogen and nitrogen over the MEA catalyst in the reactor at a reaction temperature between 200 °C and 900 °C.
Absstract of: AU2024244811A1
Provided is a configuration capable of improving the operation rate of a hydrogen production device for producing hydrogen using power supplied from multiple power sources using different renewable energies. A power system 1 according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a hydrogen production device 41 that produces hydrogen using power supplied from different types of renewable energy generators 21, 31; and an information processing device 71 that causes power to be supplied to the hydrogen production device 41 from a renewable energy generator, the output of which is reduced, from among the renewable energy generators 21, 31.
Absstract of: AU2024407460A1
A catalyst coated separator for alkaline water electrolysis (1) comprising a porous support (100) and on at least side of the support, in order: - an optional porous polymer layer (200), - a non-porous alkali-stable polymer layer (300), and - a catalyst layer (400).
Absstract of: US2025343422A1
The present disclosure relates to circuits for connecting components of a hydrogen plant to a power grid to power the components in an efficient manner. In one implementation, power-side alternate current (AC) to direct current (DC) converters may be connected to a source power grid without the need for an isolation transformer by providing separate buses between the power-side AC-DC converters and load-side DC-DC converters instead of a shared DC bus between the converters. Other implementations for connecting components of a hydrogen plant to a power grid may include an adjustable transformer, such as a tappable transformer or an autotransformer, to connect any number of auxiliary loads of the plant to the power grid. The adjustable transformer may provide for various types of auxiliary load devices to connect to the power provided by the transformer at the same time, including both three-phase devices and one-phase devices.
Absstract of: US2025341010A1
A method of operating an electrolyzer includes changing a current density associated with operation of the electrolyzer based on one or more electricity input factors, or one or more hydrogen output factors, or both.
Absstract of: US2025340500A1
The invention relates to a method for producing methanol via a synthesis gas produced by combining electrolysis of a water feedstock for producing a stream comprising hydrogen, and electrolysis of carbon dioxide rich stream for producing a stream comprising CO and CO2 in which the synthesis gas has a molar ratio CO/CO2 greater than 2. The invention relates also to a method for producing a synthesis gas by once-through co-electrolysis in a SOEC unit of a feed gas stream combining CO2 and steam.
Absstract of: US2025341002A1
A direct impure water electrolysis (DIWE) approach generates green hydrogen in a modified proton-exchange membrane pure water electrolyzer (PEM-PWE), that avoids fouling, corrosion, deactivation, and side reactions normally caused by the ions in impure or saline waters. Conventional electrolyzers require ultrapure deionized (DI) water as feed because: 1) the proton-exchange membrane (PEM) and electrocatalysts are readily poisoned by the anions, e.g., chloride, and cations, e.g., sodium, calcium, and magnesium that are present in seawater or brackish water; and 2) the chloride anions readily form chlorine at the PEM-electrolyzer anode, which is toxic and corrosive. This adds substantially to the cost and complexity of the electrolyzer plant due to the water treatment plant needed for producing ultrapure DI water. The tolerance of impure water as described herein avoids reverse osmosis and deionization requirements steps which is beneficial for use in semi-arid regions with a paucity of fresh water.
Absstract of: US2025341003A1
A method for the generation of a gas mixture including carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and optionally hydrogen for use in hydroformylation plants or in carbonylation plants, including mixing an optional steam with carbon dioxide in the desired molar ratio, feeding the resulting gas to a solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) or an SOEC stack at a sufficient temperature for the cell or cell stack to operate while effecting a partial conversion of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide and optionally of steam to hydrogen, removing some or all the remaining steam from the raw product gas stream by cooling the raw product gas stream and separating the remaining product gas from a liquid, and using the gas mixture containing CO and CO2 for liquid phase synthesis reactions utilizing carbon monoxide as one of the reactants while recycling CO2 to the SOEC or SOEC stack.
Absstract of: US2025341004A1
A device for preparing high-purity hydrogen and/or high-purity oxygen by electrolysis of water, wherein the hydrogen and/or oxygen produced has an argon content of less than 5 ppb by weight. Including, in sequence, a desalination water treatment system, a desalination water storage tank, a degasser feed water pump, a desalinated and degassed water heat exchanger, a degasser for degassing desalinated water, an electrolyzer feed water pump, and an electrolyzer. The degasser is configured to produce water that has an argon content of less than 10 ppb by weight after being degassed. The electrolyzer is an alkaline electrolyzer, and includes an electrolytic cell, and anode lye separator, a cathode lye separator, and a lye cooler. The electrolyzer also includes a lye heat exchanger and a hot lye recirculation stream. Also involved is a method of preparing high-purity hydrogen and/or oxygen by using the device.
Absstract of: US2025341007A1
An electrochemical cell comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, and a proton-conducting membrane between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode comprises a layered perovskite having the general formula: DAB2O5+δ, wherein D consists of two or more lanthanide elements; A consists of one or more of Sr and Ba; B consists of one or more of Co, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Mn, Cr, and Nd; and δ is an oxygen deficit. The second electrode comprises a cermet material including at least one metal and at least one perovskite. Related structures, apparatuses, systems, and methods are also described.
Absstract of: US2025341001A1
An electrode configuration and system useful for performing electrolysis, including one or more pairs of non-planar electrodes each comprising a first electrode having a first base and a second electrode comprising a second base. A mount can be used to mount the first electrode and the second electrode in each of the pairs with a spacing between the first base and the second base, so that an electric current may flow through a fluid between the first base and the second base to drive an electrochemical reaction of the fluid. A surface area of the bases (the base of the first electrode and the base of the second electrode) exposed to the fluid are dimensioned to support a current density of the electric current of at least 10 A/cm2 or in a range of 10 A/cm2 and 14 A/cm2. An electrolysis system including the electrodes can be used for the electrolysis of seawater to produce hydrogen at higher rates and with reduced chlorine evolution.
Absstract of: US2025341280A1
The storage apparatus according to the invention, a geo hydrogen storage system, is a system consisting of a plurality of groundwater wells drilled into the ground. Hydrogen is produced by electrolysis using green energy. The hydrogen and the associated oxygen are stored in and recovered from cartridges installed in said wells being flooded by the groundwater and located at appropriate distances from each other. The system uses closed-circuit circulating water to transport the gases generated in electrolysis in the form of bubbles. The gases are separated from the circulating water by volume expansion and form gas bubbles when they reach the corresponding cartridge. This gas bubble will, with continued operation, squeeze larger and larger volume of water from the groundwater in the cartridge, thereby pressurizing the system.
Absstract of: WO2025227188A1
Described herein is a process for splitting water into molecular hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2), comprising: contacting water molecules with a catalyst, wherein the catalyst or at least portion thereof in contact with the water molecules is irradiated with microwave radiation, and wherein the catalyst comprises a compound of a metal (M) and at least one Lewis acidic element (X) different to the metal, whereby on contact, the water molecules split to form molecular hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2).
Absstract of: WO2025227539A1
The present invention belongs to the technical field of carbon dioxide capture. Provided is a decoupling type electrochemical carbon dioxide capture system. The system comprises an electrolysis reactor, a carbon dioxide absorption tower and a carbon dioxide desorption tower. The system can achieve the electrochemical capture and purification of ultralow-concentration carbon dioxide in an oxygen-containing carbon dioxide environment. In practical use, an external power supply can be used for supplying power to the system, and the pH environments of a solution at a cathode and an anode are changed by means of an electrochemical PCET reaction to promote the enrichment of OH- in a cathode region and the enrichment of H+ in an anode region, thereby achieving the absorption of ultralow-concentration carbon dioxide and the release of high-purity carbon dioxide; and an anode liquid is reduced and regenerated outside the system by means of hydrogen generated by the cathode, thereby achieving low-energy-consumption continuous stable carbon dioxide capture and purification.
Absstract of: WO2025230800A1
The electrolysis device includes a plurality of plates that have a plurality of sets of aligned fluid openings. At least one of the sets of aligned fluid openings is configured for conveying high pressure hydrogen gas. At least one gasket, which has an annular shape and is made of an elastomeric material, surrounds at least one of the sets of aligned fluid openings to establish a fluid-tight seal between at least two of the plurality of plates. The at least one gasket has a generally constant cross-sectional shape around a central axis, the cross-sectional shape having a sealing surface that includes a pair of peaks that are spaced radially apart from one another and that includes a pair of elevated plateaus on opposite radial sides of the pair of peaks.
Absstract of: WO2025230786A1
A method of catalytic ammonia decomposition, where the method includes: flowing ammonia into a reactor charged with a supported medium entropy metal alloy (MEA) catalyst including MEA particles supported on a support, the MEA particles including a first principal metal, a second principal metal, and a third principal metal, where each of the principal metals is independently selected without repetition from the group consisting of Co, Cr, Fe, Mn, Ni, Al, Cu, Zn, Ti, Zr, Mo, V, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, W, Re, Ir, Pt, Au, Ce, Y, Yb, Sn, Ga, In, and Be; and catalytically decomposing the ammonia into hydrogen and nitrogen over the supported MEA catalyst in the reactor at a reaction temperature between 200 °C and 900 °C.
Absstract of: WO2025228738A1
The invention relates to a method for operating at least one electrochemical system (1), for example an electrolysis system for producing hydrogen, wherein software is used during operation of the electrochemical system (1), which software is at least once updated or replaced by subsequent software, and wherein the updated software or the subsequent software is tested and/or validated at least in parts. According to the invention, (a) a virtual operating environment is generated by means of a simulation, which virtual operating environment reproduces an actual operating state using real operating data, (b) the updated software or subsequent software is executed within the virtual operating environment, and (c) the updated software or subsequent software is tested and/or validated on the basis of the actual operating state in parallel with ongoing operation. The invention also relates to a computing unit (4) which is designed to carry out steps of a method according to the invention.
Absstract of: WO2025230473A1
The present disclosure relates broadly to ammonia electrochemical cells. The ammonia electrolysis cell may comprise: a chamber for containing an electrolyte; two electrodes disposed within the chamber; and an anion exchange membrane disposed between the electrodes, wherein each electrode comprises a bifunctional catalyst having ammonia oxidation reaction activity and hydrogen evolution reaction activity, and wherein each electrode is capable of alternating in polarity when subjected to an alternating potential. There is also disclosed herein a method of operating an ammonia electrolysis cell as well as the use of an ammonia electrolysis cell to produce hydrogen from ammonia.
Absstract of: WO2025231331A1
A direct impure water electrolysis (DIWE) approach generates green hydrogen in a modified proton-exchange membrane pure water electrolyzer (PEM-PWE), that avoids fouling, corrosion, deactivation, and side reactions normally caused by the ions in impure or saline waters. Conventional electrolyzers require ultrapure deionized (DI) water as feed because: 1) the proton-exchange membrane (PEM) and electrocatalysts are readily poisoned by the anions, e.g., chloride, and cations, e.g., sodium, calcium, and magnesium that are present in seawater or brackish water; and 2) the chloride anions readily form chlorine at the PEM-electrolyzer anode, which is toxic and corrosive. This adds substantially to the cost and complexity of the electrolyzer plant due to the water treatment plant needed for producing ultrapure DI water. The tolerance of impure water as described herein avoids reverse osmosis and deionization requirements steps which is beneficial for use in semi-arid regions with a paucity of fresh water.
Absstract of: WO2025231104A1
A contained hydrogen generation system ("system") comprises a high-pressure containment vessel ("vessel"), one or more proton-exchange membrane ("PEM") cells, an oxygen-water separator, and a passive dual regulator with relative differential venting ("regulator"). The vessel defines a hydrogen plenum. The PEM and the oxygen-water separator are disposed in the hydrogen plenum. The regulator includes a hydrogen fluid path in fluid communication with the hydrogen plenum, an exterior hydrogen storage vessel, and an exterior of the vessel, and also includes an oxygen fluid path in fluid communication with the oxygen-water separator, an exterior oxygen storage vessel, and an exterior of the vessel. The regulator regulates pressure imbalances between an oxygen-side of the system and a hydrogen-side of the system, and vents oxygen and hydrogen to an exterior of the vessel to allow collection of both hydrogen and oxygen and avoid rupture of a PEM in the one or more PEM cells.
Absstract of: AU2024307301A1
A method and arrangement of performing electrolysis by an electrolyzer includes an operational mode and a partial operational mode. During the operational mode operational power from a main power source (202) to a first (808) and second set of stacks (806). In response to detecting a power insufficient for the first and the second set of stacks (806) to perform electrolysis without impurities, the electrolyzer is set to a partial operational mode, wherein the first set of stacks (808) perform electrolysis without impurities and the second set of stacks (806) do not perform electrolysis.
Nº publicación: EP4643012A1 05/11/2025
Applicant:
SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO KG [DE]
Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
Absstract of: AU2024291100A1
The invention relates to an energy supply system (20) for coupling to a wind turbine (30) used in island mode, wherein the wind turbine (30) is configured to operate an electrolysis system (11) for producing green hydrogen using wind energy, wherein the energy supply system (20) has a solar energy source (21), comprising a photovoltaic module (22) and/or a solar thermal collector (23), which is configured to supply the electrolysis system (21), in particular an enclosure (12) and water-conducting lines of electrolysis units of the electrolysis system (11), with thermal energy in the event of the absence of wind energy. The invention also relates to a corresponding method for supplying solar energy to a wind turbine (30) used in island mode.