Stone's proposed venture would create rocket fuel by melting water ice from the moon's soil, purifying it (exactly how, he says, is a trade secret), and splitting it into hydrogen and oxygen, perhaps using a solar - powered
electrolysis system.
«We think that to get real zero - emission vehicles, and that's on a well - to - wheel basis, having renewable electricity producing the hydrogen is really the most environmentally friendly and sustainable way to produce hydrogen,» said Steve Szymanski, director of government business for
the electrolysis system manufacturer Proton OnSite.
Over time, as the number and size of
electrolysis systems grow, the cost of producing renewable hydrogen using this method will drop.
However,
electrolysis systems that offer ancillary services and sell hydrogen fuel are more economically competitive.
The PBCTF is a specialized facility designed to test novel materials such as high temperature proton exchange membranes and electrocatalysts for the production of H2 through non-conventional
electrolysis systems.
Not exact matches
The process, known as power - to - gas, inserts hydrogen generated by
electrolysis directly into the natural gas pipeline
system.
In his article, Fray also suggested that metal
electrolysis could be used to produce oxygen on other planets, «making human colonization of the Solar
System more feasible.»
This process could form the basis of a practical solar - energy storage
system, Nocera says, in which electric current from a solar cell passes through water to the catalyst, breaking the water into oxygen and hydrogen through
electrolysis.
The IMO has certified more than 20 commercial treatment
systems involving various combinations of filtration, irradiation, ozone, heat,
electrolysis and biocides.
Other co-authors on the study include James Bullock, a Berkeley Lab postdoctoral researcher in materials sciences, who was instrumental in engineering the
system's photovoltaic and
electrolysis cell pairing.
During this time, Shear helped develop the HYDROS water -
electrolysis propulsion
system at Tethers Unlimited and led a microgravity experiment on the Weightless Wonder parabolic aircraft.
The
system is simply hooked up through your normal tap water, but it runs the water through a process called
electrolysis.
Will help big cities clean air and new techniques for separation in nanotubes and
electrolysis can couple
systems with desalination and even grid power production in distributed pwer cells.
1 Executive Summary 2 Scope of the Report 3 The Case for Hydrogen 3.1 The Drive for Clean Energy 3.2 The Uniqueness of Hydrogen 3.3 Hydrogen's Safety Record 4 Hydrogen Fuel Cells 4.1 Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell 4.2 Fuel Cells and Batteries 4.3 Fuel Cell
Systems Durability 4.4 Fuel Cell Vehicles 5 Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure 5.1 Hydrogen Station Hardware 5.2 Hydrogen Compression and Storage 5.3 Hydrogen Fueling 5.4 Hydrogen Station Capacity 6 Hydrogen Fueling Station Types 6.1 Retail vs. Non-Retail Stations 6.1.1 Retail Hydrogen Stations 6.1.2 Non-Retail Hydrogen Stations 6.2 Mobile Hydrogen Stations 6.2.1 Honda's Smart Hydrogen Station 6.2.2 Nel Hydrogen's RotoLyzer 6.2.3 Others 7 Hydrogen Fueling Protocols 7.1 SAE J2601 7.2 Related Standards 7.3 Fueling Protocols vs. Vehicle Charging 7.4 SAE J2601 vs. SAE J1772 7.5 Ionic Compression 8 Hydrogen Station Rollout Strategy 8.1 Traditional Approaches 8.2 Current Approach 8.3 Factors Impacting Rollouts 8.4 Production and Distribution Scenarios 8.5 Reliability Issues 9 Sources of Hydrogen 9.1 Fossil Fuels 9.2 Renewable Sources 10 Methods of Hydrogen Production 10.1 Production from Non-Renewable Sources 10.1.1 Steam Reforming of Natural Gas 10.1.2 Coal Gasification 10.2 Production from Renewable Sources 10.2.1
Electrolysis 10.2.2 Biomass Gasification 11 Hydrogen Production Scenarios 11.1 Centralized Hydrogen Production 11.2 On - Site Hydrogen Production 11.2.1 On - site
Electrolysis 11.2.2 On - Site Steam Methane Reforming 12 Hydrogen Delivery 12.1 Hydrogen Tube Trailers 12.2 Tanker Trucks 12.3 Pipeline Delivery 12.4 Railcars and Barges 13 Hydrogen Stations Cost Factors 13.1 Capital Expenditures 13.2 Operating Expenditures 14 Hydrogen Station Deployments 14.1 Asia - Pacific 14.1.1 Japan 14.1.2 Korea 14.1.3 China 14.1.4 Rest of Asia - Pacific 14.2 Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) 14.2.1 Germany 14.2.2 The U.K. 14.2.3 Nordic Region 14.2.4 Rest of EMEA 14.3 Americas 14.3.1 U.S. West Coast 14.3.2 U.S. East Coast 14.3.3 Canada 14.3.4 Latin America 15 Selected Vendors 15.1 Air Liquide 15.2 Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. 15.3 Ballard Power
Systems 15.4 FirstElement Fuel Inc. 15.5 FuelCell Energy, Inc. 15.6 Hydrogenics Corporation 15.7 The Linde Group 15.8 Nel Hydrogen 15.9 Nuvera Fuel Cells 15.10 Praxair 15.11 Proton OnSite / SunHydro 15.11.1 Proton Onsite 15.11.2 SunHydro 16 Market Forecasts 16.1 Overview 16.2 Global Hydrogen Station Market 16.2.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.2.2 Hydrogen Stations Capacity 16.2.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.3 Asia - Pacific Hydrogen Station Market 16.3.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.3.2 Hydrogen Stations Capacity 16.3.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.4 Europe, Middle East and Africa 16.4.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.4.2 Hydrogen Station Capacity 16.4.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.5 Americas 16.5.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.5.2 Hydrogen Station Capacity 16.5.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 17 Conclusions 17.1 Hydrogen as a Fuel 17.2 Rollout of Fuel Cell Vehicles 17.3 Hydrogen Station Deployments 17.4 Funding Requirements 17.5 Customer Experience 17.6 Other Findings
That said, there are seductive small - scale options emerging, like the Fronius Energy Cell
system in which any excess electricity from a PV cell used to decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen by
electrolysis.
FuelCell Energy, Inc. is developing a solid oxide
electrolysis cell (SOEC)
system to convert excess electricity during periods of low power demand into hydrogen efficiently.
Hydrogen can also be generated by
electrolysis of water by using extra electricity generated by wind and / or solar collection to be stored for burning in power plants when those collection
systems have lulls especially for solar at night, of course.
All we need is a bio-tech based
system for taking hydrogen from
electrolysis and CO2 from the air and creating methane.
They point out that such
systems could easily generate enough power to produce hydrogen through
electrolysis.
Mozilla is slowly rolling out what it calls «Multi-Process Firefox» (confusingly, also
Electrolysis and e10s), which separates the core Firefox
system from web content.
Instead of an erosion
system, a built - in generator uses a form of
electrolysis to separate water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen, and then combine them with salt (sodium chloride) to form sodium hypochlorite (chlorine), which sterilizes the water.