Sustainable Anion Exchange Membrane Electrolyser for large-scale green hydrogen production

Jose Carlos Martinez Rosales

Sustainable Anion Exchange Membrane Electrolyser for large-scale green hydrogen production.

Rel. Massimo Santarelli. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Energetica E Nucleare, 2023

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Abstract

The French national strategy on decarbonized hydrogen aims to install 6.5 GW of electrolyser capacity in France by the year 2030, to develop an industrial sector around hydrogen and to sustain the innovation and research in this sector. For this last reason the French programme PEPR-H2 was created and is operated by the French National Research Agency (ANR). DAEMONHYC is a project lead by the LEMTA and financed by the PEPR-H2 programme that aims to develop new materials and to increase the performance and durability of Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysers (AEMWE). AEMWE is an emerging technology thanks to the recent advancements in anion exchange membranes that enables the construction of durable zero-gap configuration electrolysers in alkaline environments.

This is an improvement over the traditional alkaline water electrolysers (AWE) that have low hydrogen production yields due to the gap between electrodes that brings high internal resistances and therefore lower performances