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Highly Efficient, Solid State Hydrogen Purification for Resource Recovery

Award Information
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Branch: N/A
Contract: NNX14CM26P
Agency Tracking Number: 144737
Amount: $124,778.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: H3.02
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2014
Award Year: 2014
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2014-06-20
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2014-12-19
Small Business Information
160 Oak St., Unit 410
Glastonbury, CT 06033-2336
United States
DUNS: 795426746
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Joshua Preston
 Manager of Advanced Technology
 (860) 652-9690
 joshua.preston@sustainableinnov.com
Business Contact
 Trent Molter
Title: Business Official
Phone: (860) 652-9690
Email: trent.molter@sustainableinnov.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Sustainable Innovations' signature electrochemical cell architecture provides a solution to NASA's search for regenerative separation technology enabling maximum hydrogen recovery from a stream containing water vapor (saturated), carbon monoxide (CO), and hydrocarbons including methane, acetylene, ethane, and ethylene, among others. Separation of hydrogen from mixed gaseous streams presents a significant technical challenge for various NASA applications. In addition, the ability to efficiently perform hydrogen purification presents an attractive economic opportunity. Sustainable Innovations is developing a technology that extracts hydrogen from a mixed stream by electro-oxidization of the hydrogen and subsequent electro-reduction of the resultant protons in a separate chamber. The process, when combined with an electrochemical cell architecture that is engineered to tolerate high differential pressure, can be used to separate and compress hydrogen in a single step. The process is proven to be efficient, quiet, and highly reliable. It requires no reciprocating compressor, so it is largely maintenance free.

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