Partnerships
UKAEA
AqGas has been part of the UKAEA's ‘Fusion Industry Program’ for over 3 years. We were selected as delivery partners for our research and engineering competencies and ability to solve complex issues of isotope management through materials and process innovation. Collaboratively with the University of Manchester there has been a focus on building and testing molecular sieves to better understand separation mechanisms between hydrogen species as well as making more robust electrolyser variants suitable to tritium handling. Our project has produced highly promising research findings that show a path to far more energy effective continuous process isotope sieving, which AqGas is committed to seeing through to at-scale commercial equipment for the fusion and fission sectors.
University of Nottingham
Catalyst optimisation is always a focus; innovative materials and loading are under test including atomically spaced deposition techniques and nickel modification. AqGas is also co-developing a system where re-application of catalysts could be carried out without the need to split the stack.
Net Zero Technology Centre
The opportunities of wind-to-hydrogen production at exportable scales in Scotland are clear and AqGas is engaged by the Net Zero Technology Centre to enhance system efficiency in electrolysers and in particular the recovery of available energy from process streams to reduce overall parasitic loads. Increasingly there are higher pressure electrolysers becoming available meaning there are clearer commercial benefits to scavenge pressure from the kinetic energy available from gas expansion to give a constant efficiency gain or even additional electrical production.
Xynteo
The Green Hydrogen sector in India is growing very rapidly, Xynteo is an India energy catapult company the opens up the way to many overseas opportunities.
