MUMBAI, India, March 28 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517023414 A) filed by Totalenergies Onetech, Courbevoie, France, on March 17, for 'sludge formation detection and prevention within a water electrolysis installation and related process.'

Inventor(s) include Dubouis, Nicolas; and Ayme-Perrot, David.

The application for the patent was published on March 28, under issue no. 13/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Water electrolysis installation (10; 110), comprising: - an electrochemical stack device (20) comprising at least a stack having at least two electrodes immersed in an electrolyte; - a balance of plant (22) defining an inner fluid handling volume (...