Issue No. 1987
3 - 9 August 2023
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THE Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and the engineering and technology group Sener have signed an agreement to develop a green hydrogen generation pilot plant. It will be based on a disrup tive technology developed by a team of researchers from the ITACA Institute of the UPV and the Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ, CSICUPV). After almost ten years of collaborative research, the technology developed by this team from the UPV and the CSIC makes it possible to gen erate green hydrogen using microwaves. This revolution ary advance is based on the phenomenon of microwave reduction of solid materials at unusually low temperatures compared to other technolo gies, and was published in 2020 in the journal Nature En ergy. The technology, protected internationally through patents, allows electrochemi cal processes to be carried out directly without the need for electrodes, which substantial ly simplifies and cheapens its practical application. This is achieved thanks to the free
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GOING GREEN The signing of the agreement
dom in the design of the de vice architecture and in the choice of operating condi tions, mainly temperature. The agreement, recently signed by the rector of the Polytechnic University of Va lencia, José E. Capilla, the vice president of innovation and transfer of the CSIC, Ana Cas tro, and Sener's Energy busi ness director, Juan Ivorra, will allow the development of a pilot plant to determine the costs of commercial exploita tion of this technology, with a view to its possible industrial implementation. “This achievement is a tes tament to the commitment of the UPV and the CSIC to in
novation and cuttingedge scientific research. The tech nology developed for the generation of green hydrogen using microwaves has the po tential to directly contribute to the decarbonisation of the energy industry, and this de velopment project with Sener marks an important mile stone on the road to its com mercial implementation”,
said José E. Capilla, during the signing of the agreement.
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