Chinese scientists build plant extracting hydrogen, water, uranium from sea
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Chinese scientists have built a small co-production plant that extracts hydrogen and fresh water from seawater while recovering uranium and bromine. The system, developed by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, improves electricity use efficiency by about 15 per cent. The work is described in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Energy.
Key Facts
- The plant extracts hydrogen, fresh water, uranium, and bromine from seawater in a single system.
- The system improves electricity use efficiency by about 15 per cent compared with existing technology.
- The team was led by Deng Dehui and Liu Yanting from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics.
- The research was published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Energy.
Co-Production Plant
The plant uses one system to extract hydrogen and fresh water from seawater while also recovering uranium and bromine. It improves electricity use efficiency by about 15 per cent compared with existing technology. The team, led by Deng Dehui and Liu Yanting from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, improved on an existing technology that is both costly and power hungry. The work is described in a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Energy.
Green Hydrogen Context
Producing hydrogen from seawater in a process powered by renewable energy is an important route to green hydrogen. Both of the two main approaches have their drawbacks.
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