Hydrogen from Biomass for Urban Transportation
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Hydrogen is the most environmentally friendly fuel and can be efficiently used for stationary power and mobile applications. When burned or oxidized, it generates water as the only emission (small amounts of NOx are generated during the combustion process but can be controlled to very low levels). At present, hydrogen is produced almost entirely from fossil fuels such as natural gas, naphtha, and coal. During these hydrogen production processes, large amounts of fossil-derived CO2 are released to the atmosphere. Renewable biomass is an attractive alternative to fossil feedstocks because of essentially zero net CO2 impact [1].
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