LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Carbon removal company, Equatic, today announces the U.S. manufacturing of oxygen-selective anodes (OSAs), a climate breakthrough that unlocks scalable hydrogen production using seawater electrolysis. Equatic co-founder and lead scientist, Dr. Xin Chen, developed OSAs at UCLA with funding support from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The first manufacturing facility for new and refurbished anodes will be in San Diego, Calif.
"Traditional electrolysis has only been possible with pure water, an increasingly scarce global resource. Equatic's OSAs eliminate the process's dependence on pure water and it taps into the world's most abundant water resource instead: the ocean," said Dr. Doug Wicks, a program director at ARPA-E, a U.S. Department of Energy agency that funds early stage, potentially game-changing energy technologies. "Just as important, this U.S. discovery will be manufactured by a team of highly-skilled technicians in San Diego, fueling our domestic clean economy and creating ripple effects that will be felt worldwide."
In 2021, Dr. Chen set out to create an ocean-based electrolysis carbon removal and hydrogen-production process that does not produce chlorine gas. Chlorine gas is a barrier to seawater electrolysis since it has harmful effects on the environment, human health, and it is difficult to safely manage at ...
