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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