Catalytic Hydrogen Production, Storage and Application

Hydrogen Production and Storage

■ This paper offers an overview of the technologies for hydrogen production. The technologies discussed are reforming of natural gas; gasification of coal and biomass; and the splitting of water by water-electrolysis, photo-electrolysis, photo-biological production and hightemperature decomposition. For all hydrogen production processes, there is a need for significant improvement in plant effi...

Catalytic Hydrogen Production from Bioethanol

Hydrogen pair-ion production by catalytic ionization

Pair plasmas consisting of only positiveand negative-charge particles of equal mass have attracted special attention because they maintain space-time symmetry. A fullerene pair-ion plasma, consisting of positive and negative ions of equal mass (C60 and C60), has been generated and its collective phenomena have been investigated experimentally [1]. In order to investigate more extensive physical...

Catalytic Production of Hydrogen from Methanol

Catalytic production of hydrogen by steam reforming of methanol is an attractive option for use in decentralised production of clean electrical energy from fuel cells. Methanol fuelled solid polymer fuel cell systems are promising candidates for stationary and mobile applications such as passenger cars. Present methanol reformers are usually of the packed bed type which suffer from problems suc...

Predicting New Materials for Hydrogen Storage Application

Knowledge about the ground-state crystal structure is a prerequisite for the rational understanding of solid-state properties of new materials. To act as an efficient energy carrier, hydrogen should be absorbed and desorbed in materials easily and in high quantities. Owing to the complexity in structural arrangements and difficulties involved in establishing hydrogen positions by x-ray diffract...