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Greener Water Production: We receives the Water Institute (WI) and the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) inaugural joint seed grant to study the electrochemical treatment of 1,4-dioxane and similar contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in water. The goal is to develop a cost-effective method to remove contaminants in water and to understand the overall environmental impacts and benefits of the process. 

On November 11, XiaoYu will be joining the Academic Roundtable at the Hydrogen Impact 2021 Virtual Conference. He will discuss about the production and distribution of hydrogen and its carriers. At Greener Production Group, we are developing novel technologies and analyses on hydrogen and ammonia production, storage, and distribution. 

We have published a roadmap for using mixed ionic-electronic conducting (MIEC) membranes in various technologies for sustainability, such as oxygen and hydrogen production, CO₂ separation and conversion. This work is in collaboration with 21 other international experts on MIEC membranes. You can find the full roadmap in the Advanced Functional Materials using the open-access link.

Our group has a new collaborative project with Dr. Farid Bensebaa at NRC, titled "Analysis of Renewable Ammonia Production and Transmission across the Atlantic Ocean." A combined techno-economic assessment (TEA) and life-cycle analysis (LCA) method will be used to quantify the economic potential and environmental benefits of using ammonia as a hydrogen carrier, which enables Canada as a clean hydrogen exporter. A master student from RWTH Aachen will be supported in this project with the NRC-MITACS-RWTH Globalink Research Award.

A new paper from the group, with collaborators from China, the US and the UK, is now published in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. It presents a novel plasma-catalysis method for ammonia production directly from air (similar to the lightening in nature!). You can read the paper on the following link:

Direct ammonia synthesis from the air via gliding arc plasma integrated with single atom electrocatalysis

Mike is presenting his work in the 2021 World Fuel Cell Conference on August 18 2021. Good luck!

The title of his talk is "Optimizing hybrid battery and hydrogen energy storage for a renewable microgrid."

Faris's recent paper, Hydrogen economy transition plan: A case study on Ontario, was the in the WISE Research Spotlight of July. Congratulations!

Through their 12 recommendations, the researchers offer a pathway to a made-in-Ontario hydrogen economy that reliably meets provincial energy needs while cutting carbon emissions.

Our previous undergraduate research assistants, Ryan Quan and Rithu Muthalathu presented their research in the 13th International Green Energy Conference. Good job!

1. Study of residential energy consumption using a bottom-up Monte Carlo Markov chain stochastic model (presented by Ryan Quan, co-first author with Lucas Wen Tang)

2. Techno-economic analysis of plasma catalysis power to ammonia (PCP2A) process (presented by Rithu Muthalathu)