TY - JOUR
T1 - Application of Thermal Spray Coatings in Electrolysers for Hydrogen Production
T2 - Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities
AU - Faisal, Nadimul Haque
AU - Prathuru, Anil
AU - Ahmed, Rehan
AU - Rajendran, Vinooth
AU - Hossain, Mamdud
AU - Venkatachalapathy, Viswanathan
AU - Katiyar, Nirmal Kumar
AU - Li, Jing
AU - Liu, Yuheng
AU - Cai, Qiong
AU - Horri, Bahman Amini
AU - Thanganadar, Dhinesh
AU - Sodhi, Gurpreet Singh
AU - Patchigolla, Kumar
AU - Fernandez, Carlos
AU - Joshi, Shrikant
AU - Govindarajan, Sivakumar
AU - Kurushina, Victoria
AU - Katikaneni, Sai
AU - Goel, Saurav
N1 - Funding Information:
. Nadimul Haque Faisal (PhD, CEng, MIMechE, MIMMM, FHEA) is a Professor of Surface Engineering & Micromechanics at Robert Gordon University. His interest includes micromechanical behaviour analysis of thermal spray coatings & thin films, metamaterial manufacturing using thermal spray coating techniques, sensor based instrumented mechanical testing, and acoustic emission (AE) sensor‐based condition monitoring. He has over 80 peer‐reviewed journals, 1 US Patent, and 4 book chapters, and over 50 conference publications. He is member of Royal Society of Edinburgh's Young Academy of Scotland, EPSRC peer review college member, and member of UK's Metamaterials Network. Total research and commercial funding obtained is over £1.25 M (as PI/Co‐I). He is Principal Investigator of recently funded EPSRC grant ‘METASIS’ (EP/W033178/1)
Funding Information:
The authors (NF, AP, MH, QC, BAH) acknowledges high temperature steam electrolysis related funding by the UKRI EPSRC via Grants No. EP/W033178/1 (METASIS). Authors (NF, AP, MH) acknowledges thermochemical electrolysis related funding by UK National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) via gamechanger Grant No. GC 596 (THERMOSIS). Also, the author (BAH) acknowledge the funding support provided by the Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (LTRF2021\17131) related to redox hydrothermal reactor for production of green hydrogen. Additionally, the author (SG) acknowledge the funding support provided by the UKRI via Grants No. EP/S036180/1, EP/T001100/1 and EP/T024607/1, feasibility study award to LSBU from the UKRI National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Hub (EP/V029746/1) and Transforming the Foundation Industries: a Network+ (EP/V026402/1), the Hubert Curien Partnership award 2022 from the British Council, Transforming the Partnership award from the Royal Academy of Engineering (TSP1332) and the Newton Fellowship award from the Royal Society (NIF\R1\191571).
Funding Information:
. Mamdud Hossain, SFHEA, CEng, IMechE is a Professor of Future Energy Technology at Robert Gordon University. His research interests include applying computational modelling techniques to solve some of the most challenging and interesting problems related to wind energy, hydrogen fuel cell and electrolyser. He has secured funding to explore complex flows relevant to Wind Energy and Hydrogen from EPSRC, Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGIC), net Zero Technology Centre (NZTC), Scottish Funding Council, Innovate UK and the Carnegie Trust. He has supervised 15 PhD students to completion and two postdoctoral researchers. He has published 29 journal articles, 32 conference articles and 5 book chapters. He is a Science Board member of EPSRC Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Supergen Hub, a member of EPSRC Reviewer College and an Academic Adviser to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission and a member of board of directors of Energy Technology Partnership
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/12/8
Y1 - 2022/12/8
N2 - Thermal spray coatings have the advantage of providing thick and functional coatings from a range of engineering materials. The associated coating processes provide good control of coating thickness, morphology, microstructure, pore size and porosity, and residual strain in the coatings through selection of suitable process parameters for any coating material of interest. This review consolidates scarce literature on thermally sprayed components which are critical and vital constituents (e. g., catalysts (anode/cathode), solid electrolyte, and transport layer, including corrosion-prone parts such as bipolar plates) of the water splitting electrolysis process for hydrogen production. The research shows that there is a gap in thermally sprayed feedstock material selection strategy as well as in addressing modelling needs that can be crucial to advancing applications exploiting their catalytic and corrosion-resistant properties to split water for hydrogen production. Due to readily scalable production enabled by thermal spray techniques, this manufacturing route bears potential to dominate the sustainable electrolyser technologies in the future. While the well-established thermal spray coating variants may have certain limitations in the manner they are currently practiced, deployment of both conventional and novel thermal spray approaches (suspension, solution, hybrid) is clearly promising for targeted development of electrolysers.
AB - Thermal spray coatings have the advantage of providing thick and functional coatings from a range of engineering materials. The associated coating processes provide good control of coating thickness, morphology, microstructure, pore size and porosity, and residual strain in the coatings through selection of suitable process parameters for any coating material of interest. This review consolidates scarce literature on thermally sprayed components which are critical and vital constituents (e. g., catalysts (anode/cathode), solid electrolyte, and transport layer, including corrosion-prone parts such as bipolar plates) of the water splitting electrolysis process for hydrogen production. The research shows that there is a gap in thermally sprayed feedstock material selection strategy as well as in addressing modelling needs that can be crucial to advancing applications exploiting their catalytic and corrosion-resistant properties to split water for hydrogen production. Due to readily scalable production enabled by thermal spray techniques, this manufacturing route bears potential to dominate the sustainable electrolyser technologies in the future. While the well-established thermal spray coating variants may have certain limitations in the manner they are currently practiced, deployment of both conventional and novel thermal spray approaches (suspension, solution, hybrid) is clearly promising for targeted development of electrolysers.
KW - catalysts
KW - electrolyser
KW - hydrogen production
KW - renewable energy
KW - thermal spray
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85141637217&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/cnma.202200384
DO - 10.1002/cnma.202200384
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85141637217
SN - 2199-692X
VL - 8
JO - ChemNanoMat
JF - ChemNanoMat
IS - 12
M1 - e202200384
ER -
