The $22m programme saw the operation of a 50,000 ampere RuggedCell unipolar electrolyser has been regarded as a breakthrough for large-scale green hydrogen production with the technology providing a direct pathway toward commercialisation of single electrolysis modules up to 100MW.
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Hydrogen Optimized is also advancing its manufacturing capabilities to enable production at its plant for hundreds of megawatts of electrolysers annually and up to 2GW annual output.
Andrew Stuart, President and CEO of Hydrogen Optimized, said, “Today we achieved an important milestone toward our goal of deploying high-current unipolar water electrolysis technology for the world’s largest Green Hydrogen production systems.
“Such very large systems will be required by major industrial, chemical, utility and energy end users to significantly reduce their carbon emissions.
“We will now focus on optimising the RuggedCell™ design as we advance toward the development of a market-ready product. We will also move toward the scale-up of our technology – a doubling of the RuggedCell™ current rating to 100,000 amperes.
“This will enable single electrolyser modules up to 200MW.”
Take 5: An interview with… Andrew T.B. Stuart, President and CEO of Hydrogen Optimized
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Hydrogen Optimized was founded three years ago to advance large-scale green hydrogen production. We address the large end of the marketplace through our high current RUGGEDCELL™ water electrolysis technology. We recognized that there appeared to be a void in the market for a truly large-scale technology which can meet the need for 100s of MW production modules versus 10s of MWs.
Our approach is highly reliable industrial hydrogen generators which can obtain the economies of scale which the replication of smaller modules cannot. Every aspect of our design and approach is to ensure that we have an inherent low capital cost design and the $/MW of a project continuously reduces as the MW of the project scope increases. In addition, the RuggedCell™ design enables the use of low cost, scalable manufacturing technologies. Our focus is both a highly efficient and cost-effective water electrolysis solution as well as a solution that can be mass manufactured.
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