SeaEly

Direct Seawater Electrolysis to produce hydrogen and oxygen

Under the direction of the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES, the direct electrolysis of seawater and brackish water to produce hydrogen and oxygen is being developed and optimised. For the project, 3.7 million euro were made available from the "ideas competition for the hydrogen republic of Germany" by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The aim of the project is to scale the direct electrolysis of untreated water from the laboratory scale to the kW scale and to compare it with existing technology in terms of energy. Various technologies are being developed for direct electrolysis and evaluated in the overall system.

The ISL creates concepts for the use, storage and transport of the resulting hydrogen as well as the hydrogen products and by-products. In addition, a location analysis is carried out with a focus on the Bremerhaven region and an economic analysis of seawater electrolysis.