Sentences with phrase «generating hydrogen»

I was in New York City doing a photo shoot for Corporate Knights when news broke that a duo of University of Calgary researchers had come up with a new, very inexpensive catalyst — i.e. rust — for generating hydrogen gas from water.

A new, stable artificial photosynthesis device doubles the efficiency of harnessing sunlight to break apart both fresh and salt water, generating hydrogen for use in fuel cells.

Results of the investigation have numerous uses in the field of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as well as the chemical industry, as this new method is capable of generating hydrogen from methane gas and electricity in just one step and with near - zero energy loss.

Yet they are still active, chemical reactors really, generating hydrogen and various toxic gases such as oxides of nitrogen and organic vapours.

The moisture - absorbing photocatalytic paint can be applied to any surface such as building facades, introducing the novel capability of generating hydrogen fuel just about anywhere.

«Biomass to liquid fuel, electricity for charging of a battery or generating hydrogen, [those are] really our options,» he says.

If this voltage is generated by sunlight in a solar cell, then you could store solar energy by generating hydrogen gas.This is because hydrogen is a versatile medium of storing and using «chemical energy.»

Now researchers have developed the most efficient method yet for generating hydrogen: a new photocatalyst that uses light to break apart water molecules.

Previously developed techniques for generating hydrogen from ethanol are best suited to large - scale production at specialized facilities, however, because they require external sources of heat.

A solar cell splits water with two electrodes, producing oxygen on one electrode, while generating hydrogen on the other.

After electrochemical treatment with an organic acid and spin - coating with a polymer layer, the h - BN was electrochemically exfoliated by generating hydrogen bubbles at the rhodium surface.

Researchers from the University of Houston have found a catalyst that can quickly generate hydrogen from water using sunlight, potentially creating a clean and renewable source of energy.

Unlike conventional water splitters, the Stanford device uses a single low - cost catalyst to generate hydrogen bubbles on one electrode and oxygen bubbles on the other.

Eventually, he adds, the technology might generate hydrogen at a fueling station or even aboard a vehicle, thus avoiding the expense and hassle of storing and transporting hydrogen gas.

Currently, the most efficient catalysts for the electrochemical reaction that generates hydrogen from water are based on platinum, which is scarce and expensive.

As chitosan is oxidised, it generates hydrogen peroxide, and Schmidt believes that this is the secret of the moulds» success.

Rather, they use a small electrical input platform to generate hydrogen and increase the MEC's efficiency even more.

Recently we reported that antibodies can generate hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) from singlet molecular oxygen (1O2 *).

The solution Boyd hit upon was to use a system first developed in the 1960s to generate a hydrogen plasma — that is, hydrogen gas that has been electrified to separate the electrons from the protons — to remove the copper oxide at much lower temperatures.

Using a simple, scalable method, the researchers developed a photocatalyst to generate hydrogen from water vapor using a highly porous, sulfur - rich molybdenum sulfide.

Since 2008, a European - wide project called Hydrosol II has been running a 100 - kilowatt pilot plant that generates hydrogen from sunlight and steam.

Professor Edwards added: «Instead of burning fossil fuels, leading to CO2, we use them to generate hydrogen, which with fuel cells produces electric power and pure water.

Furthermore, if the electrons react only with water at the cathode, they generate hydrogen gas — which contains enough energy to fuel the extra voltage requirements.

Scientific American's 2006 researcher of the year, M.I.T.'s Angela Belcher, has engineered a virus so that it captures light energy and uses it to catalyze the splitting of water, a first step in a possible new way to generate hydrogen for fuel cells.

Daniel Nocera, chemist, MIT - Bright Idea: Split water to generate hydrogen energy — but do it the cheap way.

By using electricity from renewable sources, our system allows us to generate hydrogen with a very low carbon footprint.

But splitting water to generate hydrogen may be an important way to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

«Because there is a large volume of fluid, the water can react with the rock to generate hydrogen and methane.

In other words, FDCA is a bonus byproduct from a PEC that generates hydrogen.

Results: In adding steam to benzene, C6H6, to generate hydrogen, the step that determines the reaction's speed is not the benzene's adsorption onto the catalyst, but rather the first benzene bond that breaks, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Within JCAP, Dr. Lewis studies ways to harness sunlight to generate chemical fuel, specifically by splitting water to generate hydrogen.

I've often thought the most appropriate application of fuel cell technology would be for windmills and solar installations to generate hydrogen with a portion of their energy, which could be used in an adjacent stationary fuel cell when they don't.

Currently, fertilizer is made using natural gas (steam reforming of methane to generate hydrogen to feed into the Haber process)-- but with the new advances (http://www.greencarcongress.com/2008/07/researchers-at.html), it should be possible to generate that hydrogen directly from water using sunlight; feed the hydrogen into the Haber process (energy expensive, true, but doable), and then you have your ammonia, convert half of that to nitrate, and there you have your ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which currently accounts for about 1/2 of all agricultral fossil fuel use.

When vitamin C breaks down, it generates hydrogen peroxide, which can damage cancer tissue by shutting down their energy supply.

In addition, a new study published last month in Redox Biology showed that vitamin C generates hydrogen peroxide in connective tissue, thereby destroying tumor cells and converting them harmlessly to water, while leaving normal cells unaffected.

Charging a battery also generates hydrogen.

Since hydrogen can be stored and transported we can generate hydrogen at remote locations of the earth, where these temperature differences are available and transport the hydrogen to where it is needed.

Last time we checked in on Thomas Mallouk's work applying biomimicry to generate hydrogen, he was reporting about 0.3 percent efficiency.

Also, it is inefficient to use electricity to generate hydrogen, transport the hydrogen, and turn it back into electricity in vehicles powered by fuel cells.

Currently, fertilizer is made using natural gas (steam reforming of methane to generate hydrogen to feed into the Haber process)-- but with the new advances (/ / www.greencarcongress.com/2008/07/researchers-at.html), it should be possible to generate that hydrogen directly from water using sunlight; feed the hydrogen into the Haber process (energy expensive, true, but doable), and then you have your ammonia, convert half of that to nitrate, and there you have your ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which currently accounts for about 1/2 of all agricultral fossil fuel use.

A hydrogen based energy economy meets all these criteria and would generate a lot of new R&D and opportunities to find new ways to generate hydrogen.

The home fueling station will burn natural gas from the home's existing supply line in order to generate Hydrogen.

AK, pray do tell me how one can sequester atmospheric CO2, generate hydrogen, catalytically generate hydrocarbons, fractionate the hydrocarbons, when all the time one has a discontinuous supply of energy?

Germany has also invested nationally in hydrogen cars, refueling stations, and just last year opened a plant that uses wind power to generate hydrogen from water.

Technically not a difficult thing — and I suggest that with sufficient heat to generate hydrogen — a carbon / hydrogen synthesis is probably the future for liquid fuels.

Greg Rau at the University of California, Santa Cruz, wants to combine it with a chemical reaction that would suck carbon dioxide from the air at the ocean's surface and generate hydrogen at the same time.

Eschewing hydrocarbons entirely, Toyota announced a project to use wind power to generate hydrogen for fuel - cell - powered forklifts.

The reactor overhead generates hydrogen by neutron - emission followed by neutron - decay to hydrogen, just like nuclear fission reactors.

Washington State University researchers have found a way to more efficiently generate hydrogen from water — an important key to making clean energy more viable.

The «home energy station» generates hydrogen from natural gas supplied to households, according to Honda.