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HYDROGEN & NITROGEN FERTILIZER. MADE ON SITE

The Futue Is Coming, HPDF Technology

THE HYPER-DENSE PROTONIC FLUID (HDPF) PLATFORM

One electro-chemistry platform: Supports underserved european food and energy Markets

Ionova Labs is being formed to develop and commercialize patent-pending ionic fluid technologies powering a new electrochemical platform that improves the economics of clean hydrogen, ammonia, and precision agriculture fertilizers.

System Concept

What Is Hyper Dense Protonic Fluid?

HDPF® is a proprietary, proton-dense ionic fluid, a high-density electrolyte that makes clean hydrogen or nitrogen-based fertilizer possible at ambient temperature, without extreme heat or cryogenic storage.

HDPF is made on site from water, energy, and proprietary additives. It is both the enabling technology and the working medium. As an electrolyte, it holds hydrogen in a dense, stable ionic form, and it is regenerated in a loop between the ionic stage and the point of use, where a standard electrolyzer converts it. In hydrogen mode, a unit produces hydrogen on demand. In nitrogen mode, the same platform produces nitrogen fertilizer. A unit runs one mode at a time.

One technology platform. Many products. Configured for the application.


You Provide

Land, Water, Air, Farm Electricity, and Labor


We Provide

Ambient Temp Electro-chemical Processing


You Get

Hydrogen Gas or Liquid Nitrogen fertilizer

WHAT IS HYPER DENSE PROTONIC FLUID?

HDPF is a proprietary proton-dense ionic fluid that enables the production of hydrogen and nitrogen-based fertilizer at ambient temperature. Created through a unique electrochemical process, HDPF concentrates free protons into an unusually reactive state, eliminating the need for extreme heat, high pressure, or cryogenic infrastructure. As both the product and the enabling technology, HDPF continuously regenerates within a closed-loop process, converting water, air, nitric acid, and electricity into clean hydrogen while simultaneously producing a nitrogen-rich fertilizer. This dual-output model creates multiple revenue streams from a single technology platform.


You Provide

Land, Water, Air, Farm Electricity, and Labor


We Provide

Ambient Temp Electro-chemical Processing


You Get

Hydrogen Gas + Liquid Nitrogen fertilizer

Why HPDF Matters To Europe

Four reasons this platform matters to the greater EU and supporting supply chains.

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Sovereign Supply

Distributed, farm- or facility-gate production reduces reliance on imported hydrogen and fertilizer.

Price Stability

No natural gas or methane feedstock exposure means insulation from fossil price volatility and supply shocks.

Carbon Neutral

Ambient-temperature electro-chemistry produces zero-emission H2 and fertilizer from low power electricity.

Modular / Scalable

The same platform scales from a single farm to industrial deployment, with no minimum efficient scale.

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Serving Eurasia from a new HQ in the EU.

Case Study: Vertical Farming, Energy & Fertilizers

HDPF can deliver clean hydrogen and affordable ammonia at ambient conditions depending on configuration, fundamentally changing the economics of both energy and fertilizer production.

Vertical Farming

TOMORROW’S TECHNOLOGY, TODAY

We Need Localized Hydrogen Production

Green hydrogen and sustainable fertilizers remain prohibitively expensive. Conventional electrolysis is energy-intensive, while hydrogen liquefaction relies on costly cryogenic infrastructure. HDPF eliminates both barriers by producing hydrogen within a high-density protonic fluid at ambient temperature and pressure.

The platform’s value extends far beyond hydrogen. By leveraging the same core technology, HDPF can also produce low-cost ammonia and nitrogen-based fertilizers, creating multiple revenue streams from a single process. What begins as a hydrogen production platform becomes a scalable, multi-product economic engine for energy, agriculture, and industrial markets.

Why HDPF Technology

One ambient-temperature platform for hydrogen & fertilizer

The Problem

Hydrogen and nitrogen fertilizer are both made in large, centralized plants fed by fossil fuels.

Hydrogen

Landed cost of green hydrogen today.

  • About 95% of today’s hydrogen is made from natural gas, at 9 to 12 kg of CO₂ per kg.
  • Liquid hydrogen needs minus 253°C and loses about 1% a day.

Nitrogen Fertilizer

US retail UAN-32 per ton: $465 in January, $596 in May, $461 in late July 2026.

  • Made in centralized, gas-fed Haber-Bosch plants and trucked to the farm.
  • About 1.9 t of CO₂ per ton of ammonia.

The Solution – What We Know Today

Patent Postion

Three U.S. provisional applications filed. Priority date May 7, 2026. Non-provisional due May 7, 2027.

Filed

Scientific Review

An independent PhD chemist has preliminarily reviewed the chemistry and found the theoretical basis sound.

Done, Preliminary

Engineering and Energy Analysis

Prototype engineering and energy analysis are complete on paper.

Done

Hydrogen Performance

42 to 45 kWh per kg of hydrogen vs about 50 to 53 for commercial alkaline. Carrier holds 105.2 g per litre.

Calculated, Not Yet Measured

Public Funding

Business Finland has expressed active interest. A Sprint grant application of up to €100,000 is being drafted.

In Progress, Not Awarded

The Concept Machine Targets (Estimated)

DESIGN BASIS PILOT UNIT 100KW
H2 / DAY about 50 kg
H2 / YR about 15t
Or as a fertilizer plant, nitrogen per day 75 to 150 kg
High Purity Indicative machine cost ~$0.3M
Design-basis estimates, not measurements. Hydrogen and nitrogen are alternate modes in the current design. Machine cost is benchmarked, not quoted.

What Can You Run With 55kgs Per Day?

System On Farm

Configured for hydrogen, a compact industrial-scale utility can power:

  • 28-34 Homes @ ~ 30kWh / day per home
  • 1 AI Server Rack @ approximately 40 kW continious
  • 20 – 50 Forklifts depending on daily duty cycles
  • 8-10 Fuel Cell Cars @ roughly 5 -6 kg per fill

1,698 kWh

kWh / Day Chemical Energy

70.8

kW Continous Thermal Equiv.

35-42

kWh Electricity Per Fuel Cell

How Much Can You Fertilize?

Configured for nitrogen, a compact industrial-scale utility can fertilize:

  • 370 to 730 acres of corn a year @ ~150 kg N per hectare (about 135 lb per acre)
  • 550 to 1,100 acres of wheat or barley @ ~100 kg N per hectare (about 90 lb per acre)
  • Roughly one average US farm (463 acres) in corn

  • 70 to 140 tonnes of UAN-32 equivalent a year

Hydrogen & Fertilizer Are Products. Ionic Fluids Are The Business

Everything begins with the ionic fluid. Produced from water, an acid feedstock, and renewable electricity at ambient temperature and pressure, HDPF® is a high-density electrolyte, and it is both the product and the enabling technology.

Unlike conventional hydrogen systems that depend on energy-intensive electrolysis, high-pressure storage, or costly cryogenic liquefaction, HDPF stores hydrogen within a dense ionic fluid that can be produced, transported, and deployed where it is needed.

But hydrogen is only one application.

By changing feedstocks and operating parameters, the same platform can produce ammonia and nitrogen-rich fertilizers. As an electrolyte, it also opens the door to flow batteries for long-duration energy storage. The platform further supports novel human safe acids for water treatment, wastewater remediation, oil sludge processing, resource recovery, pipeline cleaning, and other industrial applications. The result is a versatile chemistry platform serving energy, agriculture, environmental, mining, and industrial markets.

Produced using renewable electricity, HDPF enables localized manufacturing, reduces transportation costs, and creates multiple revenue streams from a single technology platform.

Sun in. Water in. Value out.

~97 Mt

of hydrogen demand a year today. The IEA Net Zero pathway puts green hydrogen alone at 50 to 100 Mt a year by 2050.

~$70B

global nitrogen fertilizer market, per year.

~$25B

a year spent on the energy difference alone in a 50 Mt green hydrogen market, at $0.05 per kWh.

~97 Mt

of hydrogen demand a year today. The IEA Net Zero pathway puts green hydrogen alone at 50 to 100 Mt a year by 2050.

~$70B

global nitrogen fertilizer market, per year.

~$25B

a year spent on the energy difference alone in a 50 Mt green hydrogen market, at $0.05 per kWh.

What Still Needs Investigation: Our FAQ

Not yet measured: our calculations put it at about 47 kWh per kg of hydrogen counting every step, against 50 to 53 for commercial electrolysis, and our key performance experiment will test that figure.

We don’t know yet, because energy use per kilogram of nitrogen depends on operating conditions we have not measured, and we will publish a cost comparison once prototype data supports it.

This is an open design question: as modeled, the fluid is far more dilute than commercial liquid fertilizer, so we will set an operating concentration and design a concentration step during prototype work.

Our design-basis pilot is 100 kW and makes about 50 kg of hydrogen a day, using an off-the-shelf electrolyzer priced from about $0.3M, while the ionic-stage unit is not yet costed and will be priced from the prototype.

Not in the current design: each unit is configured for either hydrogen or nitrogen fertilizer at any one time, the same platform supports both, and simultaneous output has not been studied.

Ionova Labs’ technology is protected by three U.S. provisional patent applications, all filed in May 2026 by inventor Michael Shawn Gray. The earliest, filed May 7, 2026, sets the priority date for the platform. Together they cover the core ambient-temperature process, its extension to additional chemistries, and the methods for releasing hydrogen at low voltage.

Application 64/059,371, filed May 7, 2026. The core process: ambient-temperature hydrogen production in a closed loop, replacing the high-temperature step of a known high-efficiency cycle, plus the nitrogen fertilizer embodiments.

Application 64/063,177, filed May 11, 2026. Extension of the platform to additional acid chemistries and blended formulations.

Application 64/073,960, filed May 25, 2026. Low-voltage hydrogen release methods and multi-stage electrochemical processing.

What The First Investments Fund

This initial funding round will validate key chemistries and process pathways, build a proof-of-concept demonstrator, secure intellectual property, and generate the technical data needed to support pilot deployments, commercial validation, and larger strategic investment opportunities.

Prototype build

Budgeted at €133,333, with up to 75% targeted from the Sprint grant. Investor capital covers the balance.

Key experiments

Measured performance in both hydrogen and nitrogen modes.

Patent filings

Non-provisional filing before May 7, 2027 (budgeted at €15,000), PCT preparation, and 15 to 20 further inventions.

Lab and team

A lab in the EU and capacity beyond what the grant covers.

Follow-on funding

Positioning for Business Finland R&D funding and the EU Hydrogen Bank.

End of phase

Measured data in both modes, a filed non-provisional patent, a costed pilot design, and a clear answer on whether nitrogen is a product line.

About The Founder

Michael Gray is the founder of the Ionova Labs technology and the inventor of HDPF. He is a technologist and executive with 25 years of experience, with deep expertise in semiconductors and sensing technologies, embedded systems, IoT, clean energy, and advanced manufacturing. He is named on 200+ issued and pending patents across 40+ families.

Michael brings deep expertise in hydrogen and battery technologies, supported by more than 40 patent filings related to hydrogen conversion, storage, and utilization. His work includes the development and application of ionic hydrogen chemistries for energy production, enhanced oil recovery, water purification, and environmental remediation, providing a foundation for scalable industrial and clean-energy solutions.

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