Absstract of: WO2025116600A1
Disclosed is a catalyst for a hydrogen evolution reaction or a hydrogen oxidation reaction, which can be used under alkaline conditions and has significantly improved kinetic properties compared to conventional commercially-available platinum catalysts. The present invention provides a catalyst for electrochemical hydrogen reactions under alkaline conditions, which has 2 to 20 ruthenium atoms supported in an ensemble form on the surface of a molybdenum carbide-carbon nanocomposite support, and a manufacturing method therefor, and a ruthenium-based catalyst electrode comprising the catalyst, which can be used as an electrode for anion exchange membrane-based water electrolysis cells and fuel cells.
Absstract of: WO2025116572A1
The present invention relates to an electrode for water electrolysis for hydrogen production and a manufacturing method therefor. The manufacturing method according to the present invention achieves a simpler process compared with an existing iridium (IrO2) electrode manufacturing process, uses low thermal energy, shortens the time required for, especially, heat curing, facilitates the thickness adjustment of a coating layer, and can manufacture an electrode for water electrolysis at relatively low facility costs and manufacturing costs, and requires less time, labor, and energy to perform steps of the process. In addition, the electrode for water electrolysis obtained by the manufacturing method according to the present invention not only possesses generally required electrochemical stability and chemical resistance, but also exhibits high discharge efficiency of generated bubbles while preventing defects due to voids in an actual hydrogen manufacturing process.
Absstract of: WO2025113866A1
The invention relates to a process (100) for the production of hydrogen from ammonia comprising the following steps: - providing a water feed stream to a water electrolyzer (101); - performing a water electrolysis (102) of the water feed stream in the electrolyzer, producing an oxygen product stream and an electrolysis hydrogen stream; - providing an ammonia feed stream to an ammonia cracking reactor (103); - providing an oxidant stream (105) and performing a combustion reaction (106) with said oxidant stream, thereby generating heat; - in the ammonia cracking reactor, performing an endothermic reaction of ammonia cracking (104) of the ammonia feed stream with said generated heat; characterized in that the oxidant stream comprises at least a portion of the oxygen product stream produced by the water electrolysis of the water feed stream.
Absstract of: WO2025114080A1
The invention relates to a process (100) for producing a synthesis product (6), in which gaseous hydrogen (3) is provided by electrolysis (10) of water (1) and is subjected to a reaction (30) with one or more gaseous reactants (4) to form the synthesis product (6), wherein during a first process mode, the hydrogen (3) and the one or more reactants (4) are mixed to obtain a gaseous reaction mixture (5) and the gaseous reaction mixture (5), or a part thereof, is stored under pressure in a storage unit (20), and wherein during a second process mode the gaseous reaction mixture (5), or a part thereof, stored under pressure in the first process mode is taken from the storage unit (20) and fed to the reaction (30) to form the synthesis product (6). The invention also relates to a corresponding plant.
Absstract of: WO2025114571A1
An electrolysis device configured to produce hydrogen gas from water, the electrolysis device comprising a container (4), the container accommodating an aqueous alkaline solution (5), a cathodic electrode (1), and an anodic electrode (2), an electrical current being selectively applied between the cathodic electrode and the anodic electrode, wherein the cathodic electrode and possibly the anodic electrode, is made of a nickel alloy, with a nickel base alloyed with at least one element chosen among chromium, molybdenum, cobalt and iron, wherein the cathodic electrode and the anodic electrode are manufactured by an additive manufacturing process, from respective first and second mixed metallic powder compounds, wherein the cathodic and anodic electrodes exhibit an outer surface comprising a plurality of first surface patterns (6,7).
Absstract of: US2025179942A1
An apparatus includes one or more thermal storage blocks that define a radiation chamber and a fluid flow slot positioned above the radiation chamber to define a fluid pathway in a first direction. The apparatus includes a heater element positioned adjacent to the radiation chamber in a second, different direction, wherein the radiation chamber is open on at least one side to the heater element. The apparatus includes a fluid movement system configured to direct a stream of fluid through the fluid pathway in the first direction.
Absstract of: AU2023396734A1
The present invention relates to an ammonia decomposition catalyst and a method for producing same and, more specifically, to an ammonia decomposition catalyst containing alumina (Al
Absstract of: US2025179901A1
A method of producing hydrogen and sequestering carbon or sulfur includes generating a fluid including at least one of water, steam, hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide and heat as a byproduct of a surface facility and injecting the fluid into a subsurface formation. The subsurface formation can include a porous rock, in various forms of porosity such as intragranular, intergranular, fracture porosity. The method can further include heating the fluid to stimulate an exothermic reaction of the fluid with components of the subsurface rock formation and produce a hydrogen reaction product and one or more of sulfur minerals from the hydrogen sulfide or carbon minerals from the carbon dioxide. The fluid can be heated to between about 25° C. and about 500° C. The method can also include extracting the hydrogen produced from the reaction of the fluid with the subsurface rock formation and mineralizing sulfur or carbon in the porous rock.
Absstract of: US2025179941A1
A thermal energy storage system with fluid flow insulation, the system including heated thermal storage blocks positioned within a housing, and a method for operating the thermal energy storage system, including providing a flow of fluid into the housing, the fluid convectively extracting heat from a top region, a side region and a bottom region of the thermal energy storage system, to generate heated fluid that insulates the thermal storage blocks from the housing and a foundation of the thermal energy storage system.
Absstract of: US2025179675A1
A system (1) for generating hydrogen gas comprises a reaction vessel (101) containing an aqueous solution (102) and a cathode (105) and an anode (107) each positioned at least partly in the reaction vessel (101). The system (1) comprises first and second ultrasonic transducers (215-220) which emit ultrasonic waves in the direction of the cathode (105) and the anode (107) respectively. Each ultrasonic transducer (215-220) is driven by a respective transducer driver (202) to optimise the operation of the system (1) for generating hydrogen gas by sonoelectrolysis.
Absstract of: US2025179672A1
A system (1) for generating hydrogen gas comprises a reaction vessel (101) containing an aqueous solution (102) and a cathode (105) and an anode (107) each positioned at least partly in the reaction vessel (101). The system (1) comprises first and second ultrasonic transducers (215-220) which emit ultrasonic waves in the direction of the cathode (105) and the anode (107) respectively. Each ultrasonic transducer (215-220) is driven by a respective transducer driver (202) to optimise the operation of the system (1) for generating hydrogen gas by sonoelectrolysis.
Absstract of: US2025179985A1
A system and method by which energy from ocean waves is converted into hydrogen, and that hydrogen is used to manifest electrical and mechanical energies by an energy consuming device. A portion of the generated electrical power is communicated to water electrolyzers which produce oxygen and hydrogen from water as gases. At least a portion of the generated hydrogen gas is transferred to a transportation ship via a hose-carrying, remotely operated (or otherwise unmanned) vehicle, and subsequently transferred to an energy-consuming module or infrastructure, where a portion of the hydrogen is consumed in order to manifest a generation of electrical energy, a mechanical motion, and/or a chemical reaction.
Absstract of: US2025179673A1
A system (1) for generating hydrogen gas comprises a reaction vessel (101) containing an aqueous solution (102) and a cathode (105) and an anode (107) each positioned at least partly in the reaction vessel (101). The system (1) comprises first and second ultrasonic transducers (215-220) which emit ultrasonic waves in the direction of the cathode (105) and the anode (107) respectively. Each ultrasonic transducer (215-220) is driven by a respective transducer driver (202) to optimise the operation of the system (1) for generating hydrogen gas by sonoelectrolysis.
Absstract of: US2025179670A1
The invention relates to a method for operating an electrolyzer (10) for the production of hydrogen and oxygen, comprising a membrane (22), which is permeable to OH ions and separates an anode chamber (14) from a cathode chamber (16), said method comprising at least the following method steps:a) temporary dry operation of the cathode chamber (16),b) temporary diffusion of water molecules through the membrane (22) from the anode chamber (14) into the cathode chamber (16),c) variation of a differential pressure (42) between the cathode chamber (16) and the anode chamber (14) by means of a restrictor valve (46), andd) adjustment of the moistening/wetting of the cathode chamber (16) by adjusting a defined differential pressure (42).
Absstract of: DE102023211891A1
Die vorliegende Anmeldung betrifft Verfahren sowie eine Anlage (10) zur Aufbereitung eines Sauerstoffgases, welches mittels Elektrolyse von Wasser und/oder Wasserdampf erzeugt und als Oxidationsmittel in einer hüttentechnischen Einrichtung (1) eingesetzt wird, wobei das mittels der Elektrolyse erzeugte Sauerstoffgas wenigstens einem Trocknungsschritt unterzogen wird, über welchen die in dem Sauerstoffgas enthaltenen Begleitgase Wasserstoff und Wasser, vorzugsweise quantitativ, entfernt werden
Absstract of: WO2025116571A1
The present disclosure relates to a manufacturing method for a separator for water electrolysis having a superhydrophobic coating layer. The manufacturing method of the present disclosure not only has high efficiency of manufacturing the separator, but also can reduce manufacturing costs and ultimately product sales costs, and thus has excellent industrial utility value. In addition, the superhydrophobic separator according to the present disclosure has high efficiency of separating hydrogen and oxygen generated in a water electrolysis process, can stably maintain hydrogen purity, and has excellent performance in preventing oxygen from being mixed into hydrogen gas, and thus can fundamentally block the risk of explosion (fire).
Absstract of: WO2025116024A1
Provided is a catalyst for hydrogen generation comprising a mixture of tungsten carbide and cobalt, the catalyst for hydrogen generation being characterized in that the absolute value of the cathode current per mg of the catalyst is 0.10 mA/mg or more when the catalyst for hydrogen generation is loaded on a glassy carbon electrode and subjected to potential scanning at -1.2 V with respect to a silver/silver chloride reference electrode under nitrogen bubbling in a 1 mol/L sodium hydroxide aqueous solution.
Absstract of: WO2025111640A1
A polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyser or fuel cell system for the extraction of hydrogen, the electrolyser or fuel cell system comprising first and second end plate assemblies provided at longitudinal and opposed ends of the electrolyser or fuel cell system with an electrolyser stack positioned between the first and second end plate assemblies; the electrolyser stack comprising a plurality of electrolyser cells wherein each cell comprises bi-polar contact plates separated by a catalyst-coated membrane or catalyst coated electrodes and wherein the electrolyser stack is located between a pair of current collectors; wherein each of said current collectors is arranged adjacent said first and second end plate assemblies respectively with a compression arrangement being located at each end of the fuel cell stack to apply a compressive force on each of the current collectors thereby clamping the plurality of bi-polar contact plates and the plurality of catalyst-coated membranes and/or catalyst coated electrodes therebetween to apply uniform pressure across the bi-polar contact plates, wherein the compression arrangement is further configured to be adjustable to vary contact pressure between the plurality of bi-polar contact plates.
Absstract of: US2025179663A1
A production unit for the production of hydrogen or ammonia by electrolytic decomposition of water, with an electrolysis unit supplied with electrical energy by a photovoltaic unit and connected on the media side to a water storage tank and on the output side to a hydrogen tank, is intended to enable a particularly reliable and fluctuation-insensitive use of a regenerative energy source. For this purpose, the production unit is designed for floating operation and comprises a balloon envelope forming a buoyant body which can be filled with a buoyancy gas and which is provided with a support structure for the water storage unit, the electrolysis unit, the photovoltaic unit and the hydrogen storage unit.
Absstract of: US2025179654A1
A system (1) for generating hydrogen gas comprises a reaction vessel (101) containing an aqueous solution (102) and a cathode (105) and an anode (107) each positioned at least partly in the reaction vessel (101). The system (1) comprises first and second ultrasonic transducers (215-220) which emit ultrasonic waves in the direction of the cathode (105) and the anode (107) respectively. Each ultrasonic transducer (215-220) is driven by a respective transducer driver (202) to optimise the operation of the system (1) for generating hydrogen gas by sonoelectrolysis.
Absstract of: US2025179658A1
In a method of producing metal borohydride, M(BH4)n, from metal metaborate, M(BO2)n, in which M is a metal, such as a metallic metal, an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, a transition metal or a chemical compound behaving as a metal, and n is a valence value of the metal, metal borohydride is formed through a reaction of metal hydride, MHn, with trimethyl borate, B(OMe)3, and metal trimethyl borate is formed through a reaction of boric acid, H3BO3, with methanol, MeOH, under removal of water, H2O. An electrochemical cell is used for the conversion of metal metaborate and water, H2O, to boric acid, in the electrochemical cell. The electrochemical cell has an anodic half-cell and a cathodic half-cell separated by a cation exchange membrane, and a solvent and water is provided to both the anodic half-cell and the cathodic half-cell. Metal metaborate is provided to the anodic half-cell, where acid ions, H+, and electrons, e−, are generated at the anode from electrolysis of water, and H reacts with metal metaborate and water. The cation exchange membrane passes metal ions, Mn+, from the anodic half-cell to the cathodic half-cell, and metal hydroxide, M(OH)n, is formed in the cathodic half-cell.
Absstract of: US2025179652A1
A system (1) for generating hydrogen gas comprises a reaction vessel (101) containing an aqueous solution (102) and a cathode (105) and an anode (107) each positioned at least partly in the reaction vessel (101). The system (1) comprises first and second ultrasonic transducers (215-220) which emit ultrasonic waves in the direction of the cathode (105) and the anode (107) respectively. Each ultrasonic transducer (215-220) is driven by a respective transducer driver (202) to optimise the operation of the system (1) for generating hydrogen gas by sonoelectrolysis.
Absstract of: US2025179656A1
A method for controlling a hydrogen generation system includes controlling the potentials of an electrode for oxygen generation and an electrode for hydrogen generation included in an electrolyzer so that the potential change is smaller in the electrode for oxygen generation or the electrode for hydrogen generation having a larger deterioration rate than in the electrode having a smaller deterioration rate.
Absstract of: US2025179653A1
A system (1) for generating hydrogen gas comprises a reaction vessel (101) containing an aqueous solution (102) and a cathode (105) and an anode (107) each positioned at least partly in the reaction vessel (101). The system (1) comprises first and second ultrasonic transducers (215-220) which emit ultrasonic waves in the direction of the cathode (105) and the anode (107) respectively. Each ultrasonic transducer (215-220) is driven by a respective transducer driver (202) to optimise the operation of the system (1) for generating hydrogen gas by sonoelectrolysis.
Nº publicación: US2025179651A1 05/06/2025
Applicant:
SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO KG [DE]
Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
Absstract of: US2025179651A1
Disclosed is a method for operating an electrolysis plant for producing hydrogen and oxygen as product gases, wherein the oxygen product gas, which additionally contains hydrogen as a foreign gas, is fed from an electrolyser to a downstream gas separator, wherein when a predefined limit value for the hydrogen concentration in the oxygen product gas is exceeded, an inert gas (L) is fed to the gas separator such that the hydrogen concentration in the oxygen product gas is lowered. The invention further relates to a corresponding electrolysis plant.