Clean Energy Research Lab
Located on Ontario Tech's north Oshawa campus, CERL is a world-class facility where researchers are working on a wide range of projects related to clean energy. These include, but are not limited to, clean energy technologies, hydrogen energy systems, ammonia energy systems, energy storage methods, sustainability, and environmental impact assessment. CERL is home to the world's first lab-scale demonstration of a copper-chlorine cycle for thermochemical water splitting and nuclear hydrogen production. Using nuclear, solar, or other heat sources (such as waste heat from industrial plant emissions), the Cu-Cl cycle promises to achieve higher efficiencies, lower environmental impact, and lower costs of hydrogen production than any other existing technology.
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