Secure, safe, sustainable and affordable on-site generation of Hydrogen Peroxide

Descripción del proyecto

Producción ecológica de peróxido de hidrógeno

El peróxido de hidrógeno es un compuesto químico utilizado en múltiples procesos debido a sus propiedades oxidantes. Se puede emplear en el tratamiento del agua o en las industrias textil, médica, electrónica y de la pulpa y el papel para eliminar patógenos o polutantes. A pesar de sus múltiples aplicaciones en procesos «verdes» y su capacidad para descomponerse fácilmente, su producción y transporte emiten cantidades ingentes de gases de efecto invernadero y liberan una gran cantidad de residuos tóxicos. El objetivo del proyecto financiado con fondos europeos PeroxyPro es reducir las emisiones y los residuos tóxicos generados durante estos procesos. Para ello, desarrollará una tecnología novedosa y ecológica con cero emisiones y cero residuos que permitirá la producción de peróxido de hidrógeno «in situ» y bajo demanda.

Objetivo

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is one of the world’s most widely used chemicals – it is a powerful oxidant and disinfectant utilized across water and wastewater treatment (WWT); pulp, paper and textile; medical, and electronics industries. It is highly effective against a wide range of pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2 (cause of COVID19), as well as in facilitating the breakdown of human-generated pollutants.

While H2O2 itself is “green” – decomposing to pure water and oxygen – today’s supply chain is far from it. The global consumption of over 6.5M Tons is produced in centralized chemical plants, emitting greenhouse gasses (GHG) equivalent to the emissions of 3M cars, and outputting over 60M Tons / annum of toxic waste . Delivery from these centralized plants to millions of distributed points of use requires transportation of a high-concentrate, highly-explosive solution, break-down to manageable units, and dilution from 30% - 70% solutions down to a few parts per million (ppm) - a complex, hazardous, costly, and increasingly regulated supply chain.This is also vulnerable supply chain - in the present COVID19 outbreak a shortage is already felt in the market.
Our goal is to replace today’s GHG emission and toxic-waste intensive, hazardous, prone to supply interruptions, and costly H2O2 supply chain, with our PeroxyPro – the world’s first and only commercial technology solution for the on-site generation of hydrogen peroxide through direct electrochemical synthesis, using only water, electricity and air as inputs. PeroxyPro will secure consumable-free supply of a highly effective biocide and oxidizer in critical applications; will displace centralized, GHG and toxic-waste intensive production, with an eco-friendly, zero-emission and zero-waste, distributed generation process; and will replace a hazardous and costly supply chain with on-site, on-demand and safe generation directly at the point of use.