Sheffield clean energy company ITM Power has cut the use of precious metals in its hydrogen production technology by a further 40%.
This development comes on top of the company having met the EU’s 2030 target to reduce precious metal usage as long ago as 2019.
Company CEO Dennis Schulz said: “As part of a structured validation process, we have successfully reduced iridium loading by a further 40% without detriment to performance or degradation. As a costly raw material, reducing iridium benefits stack costs significantly. This loading reduction and our catalyst recovery and reuse processes will substantially reduce our consumption of critical raw materials and further lower our cost.”
The development of the company’s next-generation stack platform, CHRONOS, is said to be proceeding to plan. It will be a vehicle for adopting several technology improvements from the company’s development roadmap. Mr Schulz added: “As testing progresses, the validation of several features will be completed, many of which will also be implemented into the current TRIDENT stack platform. The step change reduction in iridium loading will be the first to be triggered for adoption for both platforms.”
