{"id":29432,"date":"2023-02-01T09:29:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T09:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=29432"},"modified":"2023-05-12T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T14:33:59","slug":"researchers-produce-green-hydrogen-through-seawater-splitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/researchers-produce-green-hydrogen-through-seawater-splitting\/29432\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers produce green hydrogen through seawater splitting"},"content":{"rendered":"
An international team, led by the University of Adelaide\u2019s Professor Shizhang Qiao and Associate Professor Yao Zheng, has split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have split natural seawater into oxygen and hydrogen with nearly 100% efficiency, to produce green hydrogen by electrolysis, using a non-precious and cheap catalyst in a commercial electrolyser,\u201d said Professor Qiao.<\/p>\n
A non-precious catalyst is conventionally comprised of cobalt oxide with chromium oxide on its surface.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe used seawater as a feedstock without the need for any pre-treatment processes like reverse osmosis desolation, purification, or alkalisation,\u201d said Associate Professor Zheng.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe performance of a commercial electrolyser with our catalysts running in seawater is close to the performance of platinum\/iridium catalysts running in a feedstock of highly purified deionised water.\u201d<\/p>\n