The Anonymous Widower

Westinghouse And Bloom Energy To Team Up For Pink Hydrogen

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Hydrogen Fuel News.

This is the introductory paragraph.

Westinghouse Electric Company and Bloom Energy Corporation have announced that they have signed a letter of intent together for the production of pink hydrogen in the commercial nuclear power market.

Note.

1. Westinghouse Electric Company is an American builder of nuclear power stations.
2. Bloom Energy Corporation make a solid-oxide electrolyser.
3. Pink hydrogen is green hydrogen produced using nuclear power.

Figures on the Bloom web site, claim that their electrolysers could be upwards of twelve percent more efficient than PEM electrolysers, as produced by companies like ITM Power.

Bloom Energy Vice President of Hydrogen Business Rick Beuttel, is quoted as saying this.

We are proud Westinghouse has turned to Bloom and our solid oxide technology to supercharge the clean hydrogen economy. Solid oxide technology is well suited for nuclear applications, efficiently harnessing steam to further improve the economics of hydrogen production. High temperature electrolysis is already garnering attention and accolades as a cost-effective and viable solution to create low-cost, clean hydrogen, which is critical to meeting aggressive decarbonization goals.

It sounds that by integrating the nuclear power station and the electrolyser, there are cost savings to be made.

Conclusion

I think this could turn out to be a significant development.

Some countries, like Iceland, Indonesia, New Zealand, Philippines and the United States, who can generate large amounts of electricity and steam from geothermal energy, Bloom’s technology must surely be a way of electrolysing hydrogen.

June 11, 2022 - Posted by AnonW | Energy, Hydrogen | Bloom Energy, Electrolysis, Geothermal Energy, Green Hydrogen, High-Temperature Electrolysis, Nuclear Power, Pink Hydrogen, Westinghouse Electric