CRADA Number NFE-19-07851 with Electro-Active Technologies Inc. (CRADA Final Report)

Alex Lewis, Costas Tsouris

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Abstract

Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) NFE-19-07851 between Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Electro-Active Technologies Inc. focused on developing a modular stack system to produce renewable hydrogen from food waste and renewable electricity. Developing technologies that can produce renewable, affordable hydrogen is key to enabling wider adoption of fuel cell technologies. Electro-Active has developed a microbial electrolysis process that leverages microbes growing on an anode to convert waste into electrons and protons, which are recombined and reacted with the help of an additional applied voltage to generate pure hydrogen at a cathode. The work done under the CRADA focused on developing a deeper understanding of the microbial community biocatalyst and how feedstock and process conditions affect structure and function in a prototype system in order to increase and sustain performance. Analysis indicates that developing a robust microbial community for conversion of food waste feedstocks at high rates within a microbial electrolysis system is possible, as well as maintaining this optimal microbial biocatalyst in larger systems. However, further work is needed to maintain performance in the system as it is scaled up to enable commercial deployment of the technology.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationUnited States
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022

Keywords

  • 08 HYDROGEN

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