UNLOCKING
THE HYDROGEN ERA
Founded in 2017, Hydro X (formerly NRGStorEdge) has developed a disruptive hydrogen energy storage technology.
Supported by Israel's Ministry of Energy and Innovation Authority, together with a group of investors including the energy investment house OSEG, Hydro X technology redefines hydrogen storage and transportation and unlocks the hydrogen era.
Academic Roots
A result of Prof. Yoel Sasson research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
A Spin-Off
A spin-off company of Yissum, the technology transfer company of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Disruptive IP
Strong pending or approved patents in all major geographies. A scientific team with >60% PhDs.
A Confirmed Leadership
Yoel Sasson | CTO
Former Head of School of Chemistry
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Asa Ziv | CEO
A serial entrepreneur and seasoned international high-tech executive. Established world leading laser plant. Physicist and Engineer.
Asi Shalgi | Chairman
Former Director General of Ministry of Energy
Managing Partner & Founder, OSEG
Radical, Disruptive Hydrogen Storage Technology
Hydro X core technology breakthrough is in both the catalyst and the process:
- The catalyst material is made of supported palladium (or equivalent) i.e. palladium on substrate; the catalyst’s manufacturing process is Hydro X proprietary knowhow.
- The process of chemical charging of hydrogen on potassium bicarbonate (a baking soda-like material), converts it into a solution containing water and format.
Radical, Disruptive Technology
Hydro X core technology breakthrough is in both the catalyst and the process:
- The catalyst material is made of supported palladium (or equivalent) i.e. palladium on substrate; the catalyst’s manufacturing process is Hydro X proprietary knowhow.
- The process of chemical charging of hydrogen on potassium bicarbonate (a baking soda-like material), converts it into a solution containing water and format.
Formate Bicarbonate Cycle for Hydrogen & Energy Storage
Water-based: the greenest hydrogen
Hydro X has developed a real-green hydrogen storage technology based on a mix of water and a material similar to baking soda. Competitive technologies use dibenzyl toluene or toluene, all toxic materials and less safe than Hydro X aqueous liquid.
Uses water as a storage medium
Not inflammable, nontoxic, neutral
Hydro X addresses the main challenge preventing the emergence of the hydrogen era: hydrogen’s low overall life-cycle energy efficiency
The main obstacle preventing the emergence of the hydrogen era: the inability to store and transport hydrogen in an economical and energy efficient fashion. The overall well-to-wheel energy efficiency of the current mature technologies for the storage and transport of hydrogen including high pressure and cryogenic hydrogen and ammonia remains the weak spot of hydrogen: 25-40% compared to 70-90% for batteries.
Source: Goldman Sachs
Unparalleled energy efficiency
Competitive technologies require high temperature and pressure resulting in high energy consumption, expensive costs and impractical processes. Hydro X uses commercially available inexpensive and commonly used material for the charge/discharge cycle, at near-room temperature and pressure conditions, involving very low energy consumption.
Energy Efficient
Charging at 35⁰C and 10 bar and discharging at 70⁰C and 1 bar require a very small amount of energy.
Cost Advantage
Main competition, requires 13.3 kWh to load and discharge 1kg of hydrogen (while about 16kWh can be delivered from 1kg of hydrogen by fuel cells).
A Radical Disruption
Hydro X technology which requires only 2-2.5kWh, is game changing, enabling the emergence of the hydrogen era.
Powerful vertical applications
HydroX technology offers various vertical solutions for the hydrogen
era. By storing hydrogen in water, HydroX enables safe and efficient
hydrogen handling, transportation and operations.
Renewable Energy
Linking the sites where green hydrogen is most efficiently produced with the sites where it is consumed.
Industry
The next generation of hydrogen distribution.
Mobility
High-capacity hydrogen handling in the existing fuel infrastructure.
Contact Us
Address:
The Hebrew University
High Tech Park,
Professor Rokach 2/11,
Givat Ram, Jerusalem,
Israel
e-mail: info@hydrox.earth
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
Jules Verne, "The mysterious island“
The hydrogen energy storage technology developed by Hydro X (formerly NRGStorEdge) makes Jules Verne’s vision a reality.
In the clean energy space, first there was solar, then wind. Now, there is hydrogen.
- The most abundant element on earth
- The highest energy content of any common fuel by weight
- Store, transform, and transport energy while producing zero CO2 emissions
45%
Clean hydrogen has the potential to aid the decarbonization of 45% of global GHG emissions
Hydrogen, a $150 billion market by 2030.
By 2050*
$2.5T
market
18%
of the world’s final
energy demand
30
million jobs
around the world
6
Gt of CO2
emissions prevented
€430B
Investments in Europe up to 2030
€9B
Hydrogen plan in Germany as part of €700B economic recovery andpost-COVID plan
10,000
hydrogen refueling stations worldwide within 10 years in plan adopted by 30 countries