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Synthesis

Syzygy readies light-powered hydrogen generator

by Michael McCoy
February 3, 2024 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 102, Issue 4

 

A light-based chemical reactor glows orange.
Credit: Syzygy Plasmonics
Syzygy Plasmonics tested its light-powered ammonia cracking process in a 200 kg per day reactor.

The start-up Syzygy Plasmonics says that it has built the world’s first light-powered reactor for industrial chemical reactions and that the reactor is ready for customer orders. Syzygy created the reactor to produce hydrogen from ammonia. The Houston-based firm says its light-based ammonia cracking process, based on technology developed by two Rice University scientists, consumes less energy than traditional thermal cracking does. Ammonia is being studied in Japan and elsewhere as a hydrogen transport medium.

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