There is great interest in converting electricity overcapacity e‎.‎g‎.‎ from renewables‎;‎ from fuels such as hydrogen and synthetic gasoline‎;‎ or for the conversion of nitrogen to ammonia‎.‎ Solid oxide electrolysis offers a high efficiency route to these conversions utilising technology similar to solid oxide fuel cells‎.‎ However‎,‎ there are significant differences between electrolysis and fuel cell operation‎,‎ and the fundamental aspects of electrolysis have received little attention‎.‎ This Faraday Discussion brings together the research of leading scientists to address the fundamental aspects of solid oxide electrolysis‎.‎ Research in this field could yield a new clean chemical industry‎,‎ potentially allowing greater harvesting of renewables by storing excess energy in a more useful and higher energy density form than electricity‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ Royal Society of Chemistry
• Publisher‎:‎ Royal Society of Chemistry
• ISBN‎:‎ 9781782621829