Additive Manufacturing Complete Water Splitting Devices: A Pathway to Scalable Zero Emission Hydrogen Production (Additive-H2)

增材制造已被确定为英国的工业相关和战略重要的制造技术。增材制造为产品的快速设计、原型制作和制造提供了颠覆性的转变。增材制造与传统生产技术相比具有明显的优势，包括：设计和生产灵活性，精确生产详细的几何形状，加速原型制作，节能，改善供应链，减少制造浪费和成本，快速原型制作并且可扩展。该项目利用增材制造的成熟优势来交付一个雄心勃勃的项目，该项目将为零碳氢（绿色氢）的生产提供新的范例。我们的目标是开发一种突破性的可扩展增材制造方法，用于生产完整的无膜水裂解装置。我们将使用来自城市和工业废物来源的回收塑料设计和制造定制的增材制造原料，其中包含催化剂，可促进水（由可再生能源提供动力）分解为零排放的氢气（和氧气）。我们的方法最重要的是包括一个具有封闭材料循环回收方法的循环系统。这将对绿色氢气的经济吸引力和部署速度产生重大影响，并推进零排放氢气生产，以帮助实现英国政府的零排放目标和氢气战略。

Additive Manufacturing has been identified as an industrially relevant and strategically important manufacturing technology for the UK. Additive Manufacturing provides a disruptive transformation in how products are rapidly designed, prototyped and manufactured. Additive manufacturing has clear advantages over traditional production techniques, including: design and production flexibility, accurately produces detailed geometric shapes, accelerated prototyping, energy saving, improvements in supply chain, reduced manufacturing waste and cost, rapid prototyping and is scalable. This project utilises the proven benefits of additive manufacturing to deliver an ambitious project that will provide a new paradigm sift in the production of zero carbon hydrogen (green hydrogen). Our aim is to develop a ground-breaking scalable additive manufacturing approach for producing complete membrane-free water splitting devices. We will design and fabricate bespoke additive manufacturing feedstocks using recycled plastic from municipal and industrial waste sources that incorporate catalysts that promote the splitting of water (powered by renewable energy) into zero emission hydrogen (and oxygen).Our approach most importantly includes a circular system with a closed material loop recycling methodology. This will have a significant impact on the economic attractiveness and deployment speed of green hydrogen and advance zero emission hydrogen production to help meet the UK governments zero emission targets and Hydrogen Strategy.