245th ECS Meeting (past event)

Smol­tek Hydro­gen is attend­ing the 245th ECS Meet­ing in San Fran­sisco, US. The event brings togeth­er the most act­ive research­ers in aca­demia, gov­ern­ment, and industry to engage, dis­cuss, and innov­ate in the areas of elec­tro­chem­istry and sol­id state sci­ence and related technologies.

By show­ing that we can run a PEMWE with only 2 mg/​cm2 of iridi­um, 2 A/​cm2 pro­ton cur­rent dens­ity and 1,000 hours of con­tinu­ous oper­a­tion – we are unlock­ing green hydro­gen at the man­u­fac­tur­ing scale of tens of gigawatts each year! This is the key to decar­bon­ize steel and base chem­ic­als for a prosper­ing planet.

Fabi­an Wenger, Head of R&D

Smol­tek Hydren is aim­ing to lower the load­ing of Ir-based cata­lyst to ≈ 0.1 mg iridium/​cm2, without com­prom­ising the over­all per­form­ance of the PEM electo­lyz­er. The reduc­tion of iridi­um is crit­ic­al in order to enable glob­al mass man­u­fac­tur­ing tar­gets for green hydro­gen pro­duc­tion using PEM electrolysis.

All our res­ults and roadmap ahead will be presented:

• Golden Gate C1, B2 Level
• Thursday, May 30, 14:00 – 14:20
• https://ecs.confex.com/ecs/245/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/185637

Con­nect with:
Fabi­an Wenger and Bas­tien Pen­ninckx on site.

- See you in Cali­for­nia, May 26–30! 

Tech­nic­al scope: The low elec­tric­al res­istiv­ity and mech­an­ic­al strength indic­ate why cor­ro­sion coated nan­ofibers are an attract­ive cata­lyst sup­port mater­i­al. The solu­tion offered by Smol­tek Hydro­gen takes full advant­age of the excep­tion­al nan­ofiber prop­er­ties on a PTL (above illus­tra­tion). This meth­od ensures full con­tact between the nan­ofibers and the PTL while provid­ing a high sur­face area sub­strate and cata­lysts can then be depos­ited on top of this sub­strate. The ver­tic­al ori­ent­a­tion of the nan­ofibers facil­it­ates coat­ing of the sur­face with addi­tion­al lay­ers of mater­i­al, such as cor­ro­sion pro­tec­tion lay­ers or cata­lyst particles.