The global climate change makes the reduction of our carbon foot-print inevitable. The biggest emitters of CO2 are the energy sector, industrial processes and the traffic sector. New paths need to be found to decarbonize these sectors by energy and hydrogen production from renewable sources, and the electrification of fossil fuel-based vehicles.
Due to the fluctuation of availability of renewable sources like wind and sun, the energy must be stored to enable a 24/7 supply of electricity. Therefore, energy storage systems such as redox-flow-batteries need to be installed.
Green hydrogen production by electrolysis from surplus renewable energies or its production especially in regions with abundant sources of renewables helps to make chemistry or steel greener when hydrogen is used as educt in chemical industry or as fuel in blast furnaces in steel industry.
Key component in both technologies, redox-flow batteries, and electrolysis, are ion-exchange membranes. Those membranes determine the overall performance efficiency of the systems and are one the cost drivers.
With our patent pending ion exchange membrane, we offer an ecological, cost-efficient and high-performance solution to realize more efficient and cost-efficient processes for a successful energy transition.
Source: Irena World Energy Transitions Outlook