A hydrogen power plant pilot project led by Akzo Nobel and NedStack in Delfzijl, The Netherlands has achieved a milestone of operating 4,000 operating hours. The chlor-alkali plant produces chlorine as its main product and generates hydrogen as a byproduct.
The hydrogen is then run through a fuel cell to generate electricity to supply power for […]
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Research into several new hydrogen production methods caught my eye this week that may help solve the puzzle of producing massive amounts of H2 for cars. None of the methods mentioned involve the steam reforming of natural gas, which is the most popular method of hydrogen production today.
At the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, researchers […]
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There are a couple of companies worth noting that are making news this week with their hydrogen generators. Both REB Research & Consulting and Hydrogenics are making moves that will result in a more favorable bottom line.
For instance, REB Research & Consulting is making an actual move into an industry park that has twice the […]
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One of the knocks against producing hydrogen through electrolysis has always been that it takes too much energy and in turn money to enable this process. Now, a company called QuantumSphere out of Santa Ana, California has developed a novel method using nanoparticles for electrode catalysts to produce hydrogen from distilled water at prices that […]
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Solar Systems of Hawthorne in Victoria, Australia is developing the country’s first and perhaps even the world’s first direct solar to hydrogen commercial power plant. This $60 million project will either be part of the larger $450 million Mildura solar power station that is currently being built and scheduled to start operation in 2010 or […]
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I’ve talked about ammonia as fuel for motor vehicles in the past, but it’s too good of a subject so I’d like to talk about it again (thanks to John H. from Richland, WA for spurring this discussion).
Back in the 1980s, Canadian Greg Vezina powered his 1981 Chevy Impala with NH3 (ammonia). He even had […]
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Penn State researchers Thomas E. Mallouk and W. Justin Youngblood, in collaboration with Arizona State University, have developed a catalyst and dye system that use solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The system is a proof-of-concept that was reported at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The Penn State direct solar […]
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Georgia Institute of Technology is researching a method to capture carbon in cars before it comes out the tailpipe. Georgia Tech is developing its carbon capture technology on both liquid fossil fuels and synthetic fuels.
The carbon capture technology will separate the hydrogen from the CO2 in liquid form and then use the hydrogen in an […]
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The Nanoptek Corporation out of Maynard, Massachusetts has found a way to produce cheap hydrogen using sunlight and water in their Solar Hydrogen Generator (SHG). The hydrogen is so cheap it is expected to be able to compete with hydrogen produced from the steam reforming of natural gas, the most popular and inexpensive method used […]
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I’ve talked about the FutureGen clean coal initiative over the past couple of years as a promising method to produce hydrogen cleanly and capture the carbon. In December 2007, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced that Mattoon, Illinois would be the home to the first prototype plant.
Yesterday, Energy Secretary Sam Bodman announced that FutureGen may […]
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