Solar-Driven Water Splitting for the Simultaneous Production of Green Hydrogen and Value-added Chemicals - Hydrogen peroxide (SolHydroGen)

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Title
Solar-Driven Water Splitting for the Simultaneous Production of Green Hydrogen and Value-added Chemicals - Hydrogen peroxide (SolHydroGen)

CoPED ID
d9daa9a3-8a41-4891-8981-7d6956e7d887

Status
Active


Value
£816,124

Start Date
May 31, 2023

End Date
May 31, 2025

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Increasing greenhouse gas emissions primarily due to fossil fuel-related anthropogenic activities significantly contributes to climate change and global warming. Moreover, the declining fossil fuel reserves also limit its use. Alternatively, the growing technological development and wide range adoption of renewable energy resources are most urgent and vital for a sustainable society. Solar energy is an important renewable energy resource and is therefore of prime importance. However, storing solar energy in batteries is expensive, and long-distance transmission to on-demand sites is technically challenging. On the other hand, an attractive alternative is storing solar energy in chemical bonds, namely renewable fuel vectors such as hydrogen via water splitting using semiconductor catalysts. Such a 'green hydrogen' generation route has a near-zero carbon emission compared to the state of the art carbonintensive 'grey hydrogen' production process. Current solar-driven green hydrogen is not cost-competitive compared to its grey counterpart, mainly due to the anodic oxygen by-product lacking significant value. In this view, it has been proposed to co-produce high-value green chemicals such as "hydrogen peroxide" alongside green hydrogen. Therefore, SolHydroGen aims to establish a platform for the cost-effective and simultaneous production of value-added chemicals and green hydrogen by integrating the lightdriven catalyst (photoanode) combined with well-established photovoltaic cells. It is anticipated that the primary outcome of synthesizing value-added chemicals, i.e., hydrogen peroxide instead of oxygen, could reduce the Levelized cost of hydrogen by at least 20-25%, paving the way towards achieving a projected cost of green hydrogen Euro 3-4/Kg in 2030. The proposal's success is aimed at accelerating the solar energy utilization towards a sustainable renewable hydrogen market and fast-tracking towards EU/UK netzero emission goals

Subjects by relevance
  1. Hydrogen
  2. Solar energy
  3. Emissions
  4. Climate changes
  5. Renewable energy sources
  6. Sustainable development
  7. Fuels
  8. Production
  9. Energy production (process industry)
  10. Costs
  11. Hydrogen peroxide

Extracted key phrases
  1. Solar energy utilization
  2. Sustainable renewable hydrogen market
  3. Green hydrogen Euro
  4. Current solar
  5. Value green chemical
  6. Important renewable energy resource
  7. Hydrogen peroxide
  8. Grey hydrogen
  9. Renewable fuel vector
  10. Fossil fuel reserve
  11. Significant value
  12. Water Splitting
  13. Simultaneous Production
  14. Greenhouse gas emission
  15. Chemical bond

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