I-Corps: Low-Cost and Highly Efficient Hydrogen Production from Water Splitting

I-Corps：通过水分解低成本高效制氢

• 批准号: 2016275
• 负责人: Susan Lu
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Binghamton
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-02-15 至 2023-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2016275&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Low; Cost; Highly; Efficient

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project will be the development and commercialization of a green hydrogen production technology. The proposed technology will benefit the water splitting manufacturers who currently suffer from high manufacturing costs associated with expensive catalyst materials and manufacturing, low efficiency, and short lifetime in operation. The technology also will benefit pure-hydrogen consumers who suffer from the impurities in current hydrogen sources. The technology will advance the hydrogen economy.This I-Corps project is based on the development of a technology for hydrogen production from water splitting. The proposed catalytic water-splitting technology has demonstrated enhanced performance with greatly reduced use of noble metals. In the existing market, customer needs arise from specific requirements to provide pure hydrogen production from renewable sources that help to effectively manage energy consumption, provide a clean environment with zero pollution, as well as provide high-energy efficiency. Hydrogen production from water splitting has the potential to address many of these challenges. However, high material costs, low efficiency, and poor durability constitute major barriers to industrial and residential applications. The proposed hydrogen production technology in this project will overcome these barriers by significantly decreasing the amount of noble metals in the catalysts. The reduction of the loading of noble metals in the catalysts without sacrificing the activity and durability will reduce the materials cost for manufacturing water splitting system.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

I-Corps项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力将是绿色制氢技术的开发和商业化。 所提出的技术将使水裂解制造商受益，这些制造商目前遭受与昂贵的催化剂材料和制造、低效率和短的操作寿命相关的高制造成本。该技术还将使纯氢消费者受益，他们受到当前氢源中杂质的影响。该技术将推动氢经济的发展。I-Corps的这一项目是以开发水分解制氢技术为基础的。所提出的催化水分解技术已经证明了性能的提高，同时大大减少了贵金属的使用。在现有的市场中，客户的需求来自于从可再生资源中提供纯氢生产的特定要求，这些可再生资源有助于有效地管理能源消耗，提供零污染的清洁环境，以及提供高能效。水分解制氢有可能解决许多这些挑战。然而，高材料成本、低效率和差的耐久性构成了工业和住宅应用的主要障碍。本项目中提出的制氢技术将通过显著降低催化剂中贵金属的含量来克服这些障碍。在不牺牲活性和耐久性的情况下减少催化剂中贵金属的负载量，将降低制造水裂解系统的材料成本。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。