by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Economic of H2 Production
All of these things are costs. The most significant of them are likely to be compressor maintenance and parts and replacement of electrodes for alkaline electrolyzers and membranes in proton exchange membrane electrolyzers. Regular maintenance may be one day per year,...
by admin | Mar 27, 2021 | Production
Today’s electrolyzers are expected to have a minimum of ten-year lifetime with routine maintenance. Fouling is primarily controlled by purifying feedstock water into the electrolyzer stack. Work continues to improve both membrane materials in PEM electrolyzers and...
by admin | Mar 27, 2021 | Production
Commercial electrolyzer technologies today have service hour lifetimes in the range of 60,000-90,000 hours with routine maintenance before needing major overhauls (e.g., PEM membranes). See: Future cost and performance of water electrolysis: An expert elicitation...