Archives: Hydrogen Fuel Production

Sometimes when you’re working in a science lab doing research you come up with unexpected and undesired consequences. Yet every once in a blue moon those undesired consequences turn out to be quite desirable. According to the press release, “Existing in large quantities on Earth, water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen. It can be • Read More »

Testing and trials, testing and trials, sometimes I get tired reading and writing about companies who are testing their hydrogen inventions, going into trials and then fall off the map never to commercialize their products. The last time I had talked about the ITM Power HFuel electrolyzer hydrogen refueling unit was in September 2010. I • Read More »

The Tata Group out of India and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor of chemistry Daniel Nocera have signed a deal to develop a commercial version of the artificial leaf to produce hydrogen from sunlight and water. In April 2010, I had talked about the MIT invention to use a solar panel and the M13 • Read More »

I’ve talked about using ammonia borane as a chemical carrier for hydrogen about a half a dozen times in the past. Now, two universities have made discoveries and innovations that involve ammonia borane as a way to deliver hydrogen on demand. Take for instance the researchers at the University of Alabama who have teamed up • Read More »

Guest blogger, Arnold R. Miller, PhD As president of a company that develops large prototype fuelcell vehicles, such as a 130 t railway locomotive that exclusively utilizes hydrogen as fuel, I’m often asked about the practicality of hydrogen. Many people believe that, because more energy is required to produce hydrogen than can be gotten out • Read More »

University of Tokyo researchers have developed photosensitive nanogels that are made into hydrogen nanogenerators. Researcher Kosuke Okeyoshi explains, “We have designed photoinduced hydrogen nanogenerators and fabricated them by a novel nanointegration method that uses nanogel as sensitizer and nanoparticles as catalyst. The nanogels involve a photoinduced electronic transmission circuit to realize a smart photoenergy-converting system.” • Read More »

Creation of biodiesel, ethanol and other biofuels has not come without criticism. One of the criticisms of making biodiesel fuel has been what to do with the byproduct glycerol that is produced in massive amounts. Researchers at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN have come up with a unique solution which is to convert • Read More »

I’ve talked about the merits of using ammonia borane several times in the past as a hydrogen-rich chemical compound that may one day be used to refuel H2 cars. Now, a company called Cella Energy is using ammonia borane (NH3BH3) plus a process called coaxial electrospinning or electrospraying to either supply pure hydrogen to fuel • Read More »

The chemical engineers at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California, which is also the academic home to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), have been doing a little home cooking recently to produce hydrogen. In fact, what the engineers have developed is a modified self-cleaning over with an intense magnifying glass that uses solar • Read More »