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Chemours Nafion™ ion exchange materials are essential to global decarbonization and the clean energy transition and play a vital role in helping the world to meet growing hydrogen demand.
Chemours Nafion™ ion exchange fabrics are critical to global decarbonization and the blank energy transition and play a critical role in meeting global hydrogen demand.
Published on 21/11/23
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Originally through the Hydrogen Council
One of the most demanding situations in the hydrogen industry is the need to exponentially scale a new supply chain that can help immediate progress towards a global hydrogen economy, especially in the face of demanding geopolitical situations. As a member of the Hydrogen Council, Chemours plays a key role in advancing the hydrogen economy and decarbonization globally.
Nafion™ Ion Exchangers: A Critical Element in the Hydrogen Economy
Based on more than 50 years of experience, Chemours’ Nafion™ ion exchange materials, which add proton exchange membranes (PEMs) and scatters, are at the center of technologies critical to advancing the energy economy. hydrogen, adding fuel cells, batteries and water electrolysis.
Water electrolysis, a sustainable method for generating large amounts of renewable and low carbon hydrogen, is projected to reach a market size of USD$3.7 billion by 2023.[i] Chemours’ Nafion™ materials are essential to this method of scaling the hydrogen economy, as they facilitate water electrolysis more efficiently than other commercial alternatives. Water electrolysis has also been shown to be commercially viable only when fluorinated dispersions and membranes like Nafion™ are used in these systems, and these materials are the only ones that have consistently demonstrated the performance required to meet the lifetime needs of electrolyzers.
Expanding operations around the world to meet hydrogen demand
Given the growing demand for sustainable energy solutions, the production of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen through PEM water electrolysers will play a role in the future. There is already a growing demand for PEM technology, as evidenced by the annual report. accumulating installed electrolysis capacity worldwide. [ii]
Chemours has taken significant steps to adapt its operations to meet this demand. In October 2022, the company announced a planned $200 million investment at its site in Villers-Saint-Paul, France, to increase capacity and advance generation on our complex Nafion™ fabrics for the hydrogen economy. This recent investment demonstrates that this intensification is taking a stand (and is expected to do so) on both sides of the Atlantic to drive technological progress and advance the blank energy transition.
In the United States, Chemours is equally focused on scaling its operations to meet the growing domestic demand for renewable and low carbon hydrogen and is continuing to invest in capacity and innovation to produce more Nafion™ membranes and dispersions, through responsible manufacturing.
But scaling the pipeline at the speed needed to achieve a global hydrogen economy cannot be achieved simply through amazing chemistry. Innovation and expansion require regulatory certainty, a physically powerful licensing structure and responses to make renewable, low-carbon hydrogen more widely used. Furthermore, as the Hydrogen Council recently noted, clinical evaluation and a considered technique to mitigate and control threats are needed to create regulatory frameworks that enable the creation of critical raw materials for blank energy technology. Without ion exchange membranes, emissions-free hydrogen production simply will not be feasible in the near future.
Continued commitment to scaling up and helping the world meet decarbonization goals
The future growth of the global hydrogen market requires science and collaboration across public and private sectors and academia to ensure we’re working together toward a shared purpose: upscaling of renewable and low carbon hydrogen production and solutions to reach the world’s ambitious climate goals. Strategic investments across the whole hydrogen value chain will be essential for future growth – from research and development to end-use – in order to ensure a reliable supply chain and robust capacity that is needed to advance, grow, and fast-track the implementation of hydrogen solutions.
Expanding the hydrogen economy is a global undertaking, and Chemours is committed to achieving this expansion through culpable production and the most productive science-based regulatory and policy frameworks available to drive the transition. power and make economies more sustainable.
[i] Future Market Prospects
[ii]Hydrogen Council 2023 Insights
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