Decarbonization tech

Addresses CO2 removal from gas streams where gas upgrading or hydrogen purification requires a potentially lower-energy alternative to bulk thermal separation.

Addresses the logistics constraint of transporting hydrogen by using liquefiable ammonia as a carrier and separating hydrogen at the point of use for fuel or supply applications.

Reduces cement-related emissions in factory-made drainage, retaining-wall and other infrastructure products while preserving a regional precast production route.

Sites that need a hydrogen-rich reducing atmosphere (or a compact on-site source of H2+N2) can feed handled liquid/gaseous ammonia into a dissociator instead of storing large volumes of bottled hydrogen.

Creates a route from CFRP waste to usable compound and molded products, targeting lower virgin-fiber demand and applications where metal or virgin-fiber composite cost constrains adoption.

Fuel-cell stacks need end terminals that both collect current and seal hydrogen, oxidant and coolant paths; joining dissimilar metals/thicknesses without warpage-induced leak paths is a production bottleneck.

Conventional Haber-Bosch ammonia synthesis requires high temperature and high pressure (classically hundreds of °C and multi-MPa to tens of MPa), driving energy use, CO2 intensity when powered by fossil heat/compression, and barriers to smaller or renewable-coupled plants. Precious-metal (e.g. Ru) alternative catalysts raise cost and supply-chain concentration risk.

Lab-scale advanced ammonia catalysts often stall before industrial use because IP, process engineering, and catalyst manufacturing sit in different organizations. Fuel-ammonia projects need a clear path from catalyst science to plant-integrable catalyst supply.

Reduces cement demand and embodied CO2 in ready-mix and precast concrete by mineralizing injected CO2, without compromising structural performance.

Eliminates or delays manual crack repair in reinforced concrete, cutting maintenance CO2 and extending service life beyond conventional 65-year design life.

Enables low-cost, low-energy CO2 recovery from ambient air and industrial exhaust using a honeycomb-structured sorbent that can be regenerated with waste heat (150-500°C), avoiding the degradation and volatility issues of amine-based absorbents.

Provides complete stack hardware for SOFC/SOEC developers and system integrators that lack in-house ceramic/metal stack assembly capability, reducing time-to-prototype.

Prevents cathode performance degradation caused by Cr evaporation from ferritic stainless steel interconnects at 700-800°C, maintaining low ASR and long stack life.

Ultra-high-purity hydrogen (>99.9999%) is required for advanced semiconductor manufacturing (2 nm node, power devices), fuel-cell vehicles (H2 stations), and medical uses, but conventional Pd-alloy membrane purifiers are expensive due to palladium cost (~5,000/kg) and supply constraints. Vanadium is ~1/100th the cost with comparable theoretical H2 selectivity. However, vanadium membranes have historically suffered from hydrogen embrittlement and oxidation. UHP's VASA alloy formulation and module design claim to solve these durability issues.

Conventional Haber-Bosch economics favor very large centralized plants; lower T/P synthesis reduces vessel and compressor requirements so ammonia can be made onsite at hundreds to tens of thousands of tonnes per year where H2 and N2 (or power for their production) are available.

Industrial and fertilizer users face shrinking domestic ammonia capacity and volatile import prices; onsite modules produce only the needed volume where hydrogen/nitrogen utilities exist, cutting dedicated transport and storage infrastructure.

Users need a stable reducing/protective atmosphere without bulk hydrogen logistics; cracking liquid or vapor NH3 onsite yields a controllable H2-rich mixed gas with low residual ammonia and low dew point after drying.

Semiconductor, chemical, and industrial processes emit NH3-bearing exhaust or stripped ammonia gas that must be abated without generating large secondary NOx/N2O loads; compact catalytic destruction units address leak and stripping streams up to percent-level concentrations.

Conventional amine solution scrubbing requires high energy for regeneration, equipment corrosion management, and pre-drying of gas streams. This solid absorbent operates efficiently under high relative humidity without pre-drying, and its weaker CO2 bond enables desorption at lower temperature, reducing total capture energy and cost.

Enables long-term (>40,000h) SOFC/SOEC stack operation by preventing Cr-poisoning of cathode and limiting contact resistance increase from oxidation on metal interconnectors at high operating temperature.

Metal springs relax and creep at SOFC/SOEC operating temperatures above 600°C, causing loss of stack compression, increased contact resistance, and gas leakage. Ceramic springs maintain elastic force at up to 1000°C in both air and hydrogen atmospheres.

Provides compact, on-site hydrogen generation without alkaline electrolyte handling, enabling direct coupling with renewable power sources for green hydrogen production at laboratory, industrial, or mobility scales.

Enables precision etching of thick (1.0 mm+) stainless steel fuel-cell alloys to form gas distribution channels and flow fields for SOFC/SOEC stacks, maintaining surface flatness critical for stack sealing while allowing custom flow-path geometries.

Conventional interconnects suffer from oxidation, Cr evaporation, and poor thermal cycling performance in high-temperature electrolysis/fuel cell environments, raising reliability and cost barriers for SOEC deployment.

High-temperature operation and Cr-poisoning/oxidation degradation in conventional SOEC stacks limit durability and increase system costs for decentralized or modular hydrogen production.

High capital and energy intensity of conventional large-scale centralized ammonia plants; high logistics costs and boil-off for transporting ammonia or hydrogen over long distances; barriers to using renewables for ammonia production at smaller scales or remote sites.

Need for lightweight, high-strength, corrosion-resistant tubular components in small batches where filament winding equipment is oversized or inflexible.

Requirement for maintenance-free sliding parts in high-temperature, lubricant-free, or chemically aggressive environments where metal or standard plastics fail.

High CO2 emissions from conventional cement-intensive concrete in infrastructure projects under decarbonization mandates.

Developers require precise, independent measurement of SOEC efficiency under non-standard gas compositions or with tracer methods to validate reaction mechanisms and durability before scaling.

Developers of modular or decentralized e-methane / green hydrogen systems need small-to-medium scale SOEC stacks that operate at lower temperatures with reduced Cr poisoning and custom form factors without relying on major stack suppliers.

R&D teams developing SOEC components or systems lack access to high-temperature test rigs capable of realistic steam/CO2 mixtures and power levels, delaying iteration cycles.

High capital cost and logistics barriers of centralized large-scale ammonia plants prevent local production in resource-limited or remote regions; long supply chains increase fertilizer and energy-carrier costs.

Manual layup of UD tape for complex fiber architectures is slow, inconsistent and costly for low-to-medium volume production of high-performance thermoplastic composites.

High energy cost and large footprint of conventional liquid-amine or solid-sorbent DAC systems limit deployment scale for industrial CO2 utilization or storage.

Hard-to-abate sectors need carbon-neutral gaseous fuels compatible with existing natural gas infrastructure without full electrification.

Centralized hydrogen production and long-distance transport create high costs, losses, and supply vulnerabilities for regional decarbonization.