ONGC Energy Centre has received a US patent on hydrogen generation process. In a statement, the company said the ONGC Energy Centre Trust has been pursuing a programme to develop innovative methods to generate hydrogen by splitting water thermo chemically, using heat generated from solar or nuclear energy. Key reactors used in this process have been indigenously developed. The patent holds the potential to open up a new vista for generation of hydrogen from water on commercial scale, it said.

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