Edinburgh hunts for a commercial partner to bring its ultra-pure hydrogen yield increasing technology to market.
Edinburgh Research and Innovation (ERI), the tech transfer office of Edinburgh University, is seeking industry partners to commercialise the university’s yield increasing hydrogen capture technology.
The technology was developed in conjunction with Yonsei University in South Korea. Together the institutions developed a low-carbon process that improves the production yield of hydrogen from coal-like materials.
The hydrogen captured from this process can be used in heat and power production in large-scale industrial plants. The cheap and low-carbon capture of hydrogen is also a step towards the production of affordable hydrogen-powered cars.
The research team at Edinburgh used the existing method of hydrogen capture from coal and modified it to increase the ultra-pure hydrogen yield.
Hyungwoong Ahn, senior lecturer in chemical engineering at Edinburgh University, said: “By integrating a coal‐to‐hydrogen process with carbon capture, the hydrogen yield per unit coal feed can be greatly improved using the carbon capture unit used on a synthesis gas stream generated by coal gasification. This helps to improve the hydrogen yield…”
John Jeffrey, ERI’s business development executive, said: “This breakthrough now allows us to look for industrial and commercialisation partners who see the clear advantages in this research.”
