North Haven, CT (January 23rd, 2019) - Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) announces it has been awarded Department of Energy (DOE) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research funding to develop a new Anion Exchange Membrane (AEM) for solar-to-hydrogen generation. The success of this innovation offers a path to higher performance, higher efficiency and lower cost production of hydrogen fuels from solar.
PCI’s AEM technology will help enable significantly lower cost production of hydrogen from solar energy. This would both improve national energy efficiency and hydrogen costs, improving hydrogen availability and other technologies that would be supported by such broadened availability, with potential extension to other electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices. Overall, the technology will serve the public interest by advancing U.S. and DOE missions of energy efficiency, energy independence, and mitigating carbon dependence.
According to Dr. Zhan Gao, PCI’s Principal Investigator for the project, “Our unique capability and approach enables a membrane that has the potential for superior performance and a significantly longer life span than the current state of the art membranes. This latest breakthrough builds on the expertise and successes PCI has for developing hydrogen generation systems via reforming of complex fuels.”
Kevin Burns, President of PCI, adds “We are very pleased to apply our technology to advance DOE’s goal of developing advanced renewable photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation technologies.”
In the Phase I program, PCI shall produce and test the membrane across a range of operating conditions, reflecting the real-world applications. Test results shall be analyzed to develop an economic model for a full-scale application and evaluate the cost savings for hydrogen production.
Precision Combustion, Inc. is a clean energy technology company developing and manufacturing catalytic devices and systems for energy sector applications. To learn more, visit
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