{"id":60960,"date":"2023-03-03T09:38:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aumanufacturing.com.au\/?p=60960"},"modified":"2023-03-03T09:38:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T23:08:08","slug":"sparc-accelerates-photocatalytic-hydrogen-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aumanufacturing.com.au\/sparc-accelerates-photocatalytic-hydrogen-venture","title":{"rendered":"Sparc accelerates photocatalytic hydrogen venture"},"content":{"rendered":"
Technology developer Sparc Technologies has increased its funding commitment to its Sparc Hydrogen green hydrogen development joint venture with the University of Adelaide and Fortescue Future Industries.<\/p>\n
The company has committed an additional $1.1 million in funding for Stage 1 of the project aimed at producing low-cost green hydrogen on a commercial scale, representing a 50 percent increase in spending.<\/p>\n
Sparc Hydrogen is commercialising its patent-pending photocatalytic water splitting technology<\/a> developed by the Flinders and Adelaide universities.<\/p> The technology has the potential to create significant energy efficiencies and a cost advantage with low capital and operating expenditure required compared to renewable energy powered electrolysis.<\/p>\n The additional funds will be used to advance research and development activities and to accelerate demonstration of the technology.<\/p>\n This includes approval for the appointment of an experienced Project Manager, Vinodhan (Vinod) Gopalan, an increase in resources at the University of Adelaide, design and construction of an ‘on-sun prototype reactor’ as a precursor to pilot scale design, and for additional working capital.<\/p>