SANTA BARBARA, CA , Feb. 20, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HyperSolar, Inc. (OTC:HYSR), the developer of a breakthrough technology to
produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water, today announced that its Generation 1 device design can be extended for
production of hydrogen, chlorine and sodium hydroxide using waste brine and/or sea water in replacement of clean water.
HyperSolar’s development team working with the University of Iowa Chemical Engineering Department demonstrated a successful
production of hydrogen along with sodium hydroxide and chlorine as byproducts from simulated sea water. The process uses
HyperSolar’s proprietary Gen 1 design and coating technology with the modification being an alternative catalyst to produce
chlorine instead of oxygen from the anode side. This demonstration corroborates further extension of the versatility of
HyperSolar’s device design.
With production of valuable chemicals alongside hydrogen, the cost of green hydrogen for transportation can be lowered. This is
consistent with findings from a recent article published in Environmental Science and Technology by a group from MIT
demonstrating a modeled chlor-alkali electrolysis process that produces valuable chemicals such as sodium hydroxide and chlorine
from desalination waste brines. Reuse of the waste brines to produce useful and valuable chemicals can be a sustainable solution to
a greener environment and also an approach to offset costs and add additional revenue streams.
HyperSolar’s GEN 1 device employing chlor-alkali electrolysis to produce hydrogen as product and chlorine and sodium hydroxide
as byproducts from salt water offers great potential for more economical production of hydrogen while providing greener solutions
to treat waste brines.
About HyperSolar, Inc.
HyperSolar is developing a breakthrough, low-cost technology to make renewable hydrogen using sunlight and any source of water,
including seawater and wastewater. Unlike hydrocarbon fuels, such as oil, coal and natural gas, where carbon dioxide and other
contaminants are released into the atmosphere when used, hydrogen fuel usage produces pure water as the only byproduct. By
optimizing the science of water electrolysis at the nano-level, our low-cost nanoparticles mimic photosynthesis to efficiently use
sunlight to separate hydrogen from water, to produce environmentally friendly renewable hydrogen. Using our low-cost method to
produce renewable hydrogen, we intend to enable a world of distributed hydrogen production for renewable electricity and hydrogen
fuel cell vehicles. To learn more about HyperSolar, please visit our website at www.hypersolar.com.
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largely on the expectations of the Company and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. These include, but are not
limited to, risks and uncertainties associated with: our ability to successfully negotiate agreements with suppliers and
manufacturers of its hydrogen generation panels, our ability to procure project financing, our ability to retain the service of a
qualified engineering firm to design and build a pilot plant, our ability to secure an agreement to with a partner with us for the
pilot plant, the impact of economic, competitive and other factors affecting the Company and its operations, markets, product, and
distributor performance, the impact on the national and local economies resulting from terrorist actions, and U.S. actions
subsequently; and other factors detailed in reports filed by the Company.
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