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DECOUPLED ELECTROLYSIS

Just add hot water

Nature Energy volume 4, pages 730–731 (2019)Cite this article

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Large-scale electrolytic production of hydrogen from water using renewable energy will require solutions to issues that arise when using intermittent power, such as gas mixing and low efficiency. To this end, an electrolysis system is now described that decouples the gas generation reactions and uses thermal energy to drive oxygen evolution.

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Fig. 1: Comparison of electrolysis systems.

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The author is a co-author on a patent related to the use of liquid redox mediators for hydrogen generation (International (WO) Patent Application no: PCT/EP2019/051807). The patent is currently pending.

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