The Mission

Our mission is to enable clean and renewable energy for anyone at any time by creating ecosystems for renewable energy carriers.

The Challenge 

Student team SOLID is developing technology to store hydrogen with iron. This way, hydrogen can be stored in a cheap, safe, and compact way, compared to state-of-the-art technologies. Furthermore, the iron can be used multiple times, making it a circular energy carrier that doesn't need any CO2 in its process of storing energy. Currently, our team is building an installation that is able to produce hydrogen from iron and steam. However, we do realize that the iron used in our process ideally shouldn't originate from the mines directly as mining new ores is an intensive process, which can affect the environment of the mine immensely. Therefore we are looking at the possibility to use iron from waste streams to use in our reactor.

The Solution

We are going to test if iron from wastewater streams can be used as an energy carrier in our system where we store hydrogen. This way we create a system that is able to store hydrogen in an energy carrier like iron, which would otherwise be considered waste.

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