Analysis of Catrode process for mass production of catalysts

潜驱有限公司正在与国家物理实验室(NPL)合作，扩大**Catrodes**的生产规模，这种催化剂和电极结合在一起，通过电解水制造绿色氢气。催化剂是稀有铂族金属催化剂的替代品，并且易于大规模生产，使绿色氢气的生产能够大规模扩大。Latent Drive Ltd是一家早期的深度技术初创企业。我们最初开发Catrodes是作为我们的氧气细胞项目的一部分，以提供便携式医用氧气发生器来治疗新冠肺炎患者，在英国应对大流行期间得到Innovate UK的支持。现在我们正在扩大Catrodes的规模，以适应一个需要更大尺寸和更大产量的新市场。更大规模的催化过程变得更难控制，因此我们与NPL合作，他们将利用他们在电化学测量方面的专业知识来分析和改进我们的过程控制。世界经济依赖化石燃料，这反过来又会加速全球变暖。随着我们转向可再生能源供应，这是一个巨大变化的过程。俄罗斯的入侵让人们认识到这一变化的紧迫性和规模，揭示了欧洲对进口化石燃料的依赖。绿色氢气是即将到来的绿色经济的重要组成部分，它是通过电解水将H2O分解为氢和氧而制成的。但以海上风能为动力的电解槽目前依赖于稀有而昂贵的材料。最先进的电解槽技术适合海上风力发电，但酸性化学需要包括Ir和铂催化剂在内的奇异材料。我们需要扩大一千倍的规模，但世界上根本没有足够的铱和铂来生产绿色氢气，这是避免气候变化所需的规模。因此，潜在驱动公司开发了Catrode工艺，以大量使用储量丰富且价格低廉的普通金属生产催化剂。这个A4I项目将使我们能够接触到NPL的世界领先的专业知识和设施，并帮助我们大规模扩大我们的流程，以应对气候变化的挑战。**Catrode--催化剂是电极；电极是催化剂！**

Latent Drive Ltd are working together with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) to scale up manufacture of **Catrodes**, which combine catalyst and electrode for making Green Hydrogen by electrolysis of water. Catrodes are an alternative to rare platinum group metal catalysts, and are simple to mass produce, enabling Green Hydrogen production to be scaled up massively.Latent Drive Ltd is an early stage deep-tech start-up. We originally developed Catrodes as part of our Oxygen Cell project to provide a portable generator of medical oxygen to treat Covid-19 patients, supported by Innovate UK during the UK's pandemic response. Now we are scaling up Catrodes for a new market which needs larger sizes and larger production volumes. The catalysing process becomes more difficult to control at larger sizes, so we have partnered with NPL who will use their specialist expertise in electro-chemical measurements to analyse and improve our process control.The worlds economies are dependent on fossil fuels which in turn accelerate global warming. There is a process of huge change as we transition to renewable energy supplies instead. The Russian invasion has driven home the urgency and scale of this change, revealing Europe's dependency on imported fossil fuels.Green Hydrogen is an essential part of the coming Green Economy, and is made by electrolysis of water separating H2O into hydrogen and oxygen. But electrolysers powered by off-shore wind are currently dependent on rare and expensive materials. State-of-the-art electrolyser technology suits off-shore wind power, but the acidic chemistry demands exotic materials including Iridium and platinum catalysts. We need to scale up a thousand-fold, but there is simply not enough Iridium and platinum available for the world to produce Green Hydrogen at the scale needed to avert climate change.So Latent Drive have developed the Catrode process to mass produce catalysts from ordinary metals which are abundant and cheap. This A4I project will give us access to the world leading expertise and facilities of NPL, and help us to massively scale our process to tackle the challenges of climate change.**Catrode -- the catalyst is the electrode; the electrode is the catalyst!**