HYDROGEN GENERATION FROM SEAWATER
UNSW RESEARCH
Economic and environmental imperatives highlight the need to develop clean and renewable technologies for energy generation and storage . While catalytic water-splitting to generate hydrogen is a potential solution , this is associated with the disadvantages of the need for expensive high-purity water , the formation of explosive hydrogen and oxygen mixtures , and the requirement of short-lived electrodes .
Vecor Technologies has developed a clean and sustainable technology that combines stress-induced piezocatalysis and lightinduced photocatalysis to split seawater without the generation of either oxygen or chlorine . Vecor Technologies has patented a technology that utilises a common and very stable ceramic material that responds to ultrasound ( piezocatalysis ) and sunlight ( photocatalysis ) with hydrogen generation volumes that are greater than the sum of their two individual mechanisms .
ENERJIN
The technology is currently being developed experimentally to increase the efficiency , viz , the volume of hydrogen generated from seawater .
UNSW SPINOUT
Until now , the reach of electronic sensing was limited by the availability of electrical power and data connectivity . EnerJIN , a UNSW start-up formed in 2020 , now manufactures an IOT called the Solar Jinie . The device is a wireless , solar-powered , IOT sensing platform that enables data to be gathered in remote , hostile locations . SolarJinie achieved international sales within EnerJIN ’ s first year of operation .
EnerJIN supplies SolarJinie hardware and backend data services to clients worldwide who recognise the unique benefit of wireless approach to IOT sensing to succeed .
> Proof of concept : Material and Process ( Piezocatalysis and Photocatalysis ).
> Experimental validation : World-Record Level for Seawater Splitting .
> Environmental safety : Bandgap Engineering to Preclude Hydrogen and Chlorine Generation .
> Protection : Filing of Australian Provisional Patent
Application No . 2022901443 .
> Development of Solar Jinie , solar-powered IOT sensing platform .
> UNSW start-up EnerJIN Pty Ltd formed in Feb 2020 .
> Volume manufacturing of Solar Jinie hardware International sales achieved within EnerJIN ’ s first year of operation .
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