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HONG KONG, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--

Renewable energy company – EPRO Advance Technology (EAT) – has today announced

a breakthrough in green hydrogen energy generation and energy storage,

revealing what is believed to be the easiest and lowest cost way to deliver

hydrogen that the world has seen.

This revolutionary process has the potential to kick start the hydrogen

economy, bringing it forward by decades, transforming hydrogen from the fuel of

the future to the fuel of tomorrow.

EAT has developed a ground-breaking porous silicon material – called Si+ –

which can generate, on demand, ultra-pure hydrogen from a water source. Si+ can

also act as a solid-state hydrogen generating material which is compact, robust

and easily transportable.

It has the potential to solve the significant challenges of the storage, safe

handling and transportation of hydrogen, long-standing inhibitors of the growth

of the hydrogen economy.

As a guaranteed source of safe, on-demand energy, Si+ has multiple uses. It can

facilitate the phasing out of expensive and polluting backup diesel generator

sets – known as 'gensets'.

Si+ is an ideal replacement for marine fuel oil – due to be phased out next

year – and offers a thermal energy storage solution through exothermic heat

that is released during the Si+ hydrogen generation reaction.

Si+ will support the mass roll-out of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles and

hydrogen-powered flights.

Si+ hydrogen refuelling stations generating on-demand hydrogen locally can

share the footprint of existing fuel stations, reducing capital and operational

expenditure.

"Si+ facilitates a guaranteed form of energy when compared with renewable

energy, which is often intermittent. It's the first distributable energy

storage material of grid parity," said Albert Lau, CEO of EAT, "Si+ technology

has the potential to bring forward the hydrogen economy by decades."

During a webcast, Mr Lau demonstrated how Si+ can generate hydrogen from a

water source. "You could compare the inert vacuum-packed Si+ cartridges to

those coffee machine pods and capsules, just add water and release the

product!" he said.

The production process consumes underutilized electricity, emitting no

greenhouse gases. The raw material is metallurgical silicon, which can be

sourced from sand together with a carbon source, or from recycled silicon from

broken or end-of-life solar panels otherwise destined for landfill.

View the webcast: https://youtu.be/BfKG0UsxAKk

and https://www.epro-atech.com/media

Media assets (including infographic and video): https://www.epro-atech.com/media

Video -

https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1860597/Si_Application_Process_demonstration.mp4

Photo - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1860596/Si_porous_silicon_material.jpg

SOURCE: EPRO Advance Technology Limited