Archives: Hydrogen Fuel Production

A year and a half ago I talked about how ammonia borane (H3NBH3) was being looked at as a hydrogen-rich chemical carrier for fuel cell applications. This week, small portable fuel cell maker Jadoo Power Systems was given a contract by the U. S. Air Force to develop ammonia borane pellets for hydrogen generation. Using • Read More »

Researchers at Penn State University have discovered that combining aluminum and water will create hydrogen. Now, in many ways this is nothing new since I’ve talked about similar science before over the past couple of years. In fact, I’ve talked about Hydrogen Power, Incorporated’s AlumiFuel technology for their H2Go hydrogen on demand system that was • Read More »

Last summer I had talked about how hydrogen on demand technology may one day be paired up with the emerging ethanol infrastructure. At that time, Ohio State University researchers discovered that using cerium oxide, calcium and cobalt will split ethanol into hydrogen cheaply and efficiently. Now, researchers at the U. S. DOE, Yeshiva University and • Read More »

A few days back I had talked about using hydrogen slurry as a liquid storage and transportation medium that may be more efficient that using compressed H2 gas. Now, another manufacturer of a hydrogen-rich liquid compound has come to my attention that may also offer answers towards building a sensible hydrogen infrastructure at lower costs. • Read More »

Proponents of wind energy realize that this is a renewable, yet intermittent form of producing electricity. So, when there is peak demand on the electrical grid and the large utility wind farms can’t deliver because of the variances of the weather, what are consumers to do? Now, I’ve talked about wind to hydrogen storage before. • Read More »

Earlier this week, one of the readers of this blog, Nute, had made a comment on another section of this blog in November about the possible use of hydrogen slurries to aid in the development of the fledgling H2 infrastructure. I would like to follow up on this today. A hydrogen slurry is a liquid • Read More »

There are couple of breakthroughs this week in the direct solar to hydrogen production arena that are worth mentioning. One method involves a 100 Kw pilot plant in Germany and the other method also has German roots and involves a new carbon nitride catalyst for splitting water. Researchers at the German Aerospace Center have successfully • Read More »

There is an intriguing article in Physorg that talks about how researchers at the University of Salerno, Italy have revisited a hydrogen producing device developed by G. D. Botto in 1833. This was not long after Francois Isaac de Rivaz of Switzerland developed the first internal combustion engine to run on hydrogen in 1807. The • Read More »

Many news stories come and go all day long. Only few have a significant impact on people’s lives or an industry. The report about Riso DTU barely showed up on the hydrogen industry radar. The details are sketchy at this moment but important. According to Denmark’s national laboratory Riso DTU, they have found a much • Read More »

Over 90-percent of the hydrogen created in this country today is from steam reforming of natural gas. Natural gas (methane) and steam is heated to high temperatures between 1,400 and 1,800 F and put under high pressure. This requires a lot of energy typically pulled off the grid from coal-fired power plants. Now, researchers at • Read More »