Sentences with phrase «hydrogen fuel production»

The work supported through this investment will address key early - stage technical challenges for fuel cells and for hydrogen fuel production, delivery, and storage related to hydrogen infrastructure.

The development could enable hydrogen fuel production in almost any location.

Not exact matches

The new hydrogen plant, which will allow the company to increase fuel production, will remain, as well as equipment to more efficiently handle higher sulfur - content crude oil.

VHTR plants could even produce hydrogen for fuel using high - temperature steam electrolysis, which breaks apart the bonds of water molecules; this process is 50 percent more energy - efficient than existing hydrogen production methods.

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One option is to truck it in from centralized production facilities located primarily along the Gulf Coast, where hydrogen is used at oil refineries to desulfurize fuels.

The hydrogen would be derived from fossil fuels while researchers explore other methods of production.

Fuel cell vehicles produce zero tailpipe emissions, but the entire hydrogen production stream needs to be low - carbon

Our production capacity will build over the next few years; with the growth of the hydrogen fuel stations, so will the demand for this cutting - edge technology grow, as well.»

I was not pleased to see, once again, that hydrogen is linked only with fuel - cell technology, which is «many years away» from mass production and costs several times as much as internal combustion technology.

Such initiatives include research focused on more efficient production of gaseous hydrogen fuel by using solar energy to break water down into its components of hydrogen and oxygen.

Of course, the goal of a sustainable transport system demands not only zero carbon emissions during driving but also during the production and distribution of the fuel, be it electricity or hydrogen.

While ammonia production is critical to humanity, the hydrogen that is needed to produce it comes from fossil fuels.

«We have developed a new type of protective coating that enables a key process in the solar - driven production of fuels to be performed with record efficiency, stability, and effectiveness, and in a system that is intrinsically safe and does not produce explosive mixtures of hydrogen and oxygen,» says Nate Lewis, the George L. Argyros Professor and professor of chemistry at Caltech and a coauthor of a new study, published the week of March 9 in the online issue of the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that describes the film.

A team of researchers at MIT is developing an alternative that could provide similar protection for nuclear fuel, while reducing the risk of hydrogen production by roughly a thousandfold.

In a new Perspective article, published in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society, researchers are aiming to tackle a fundamental debate in key reactions behind fuel cells and hydrogen production, which, if solved, could significantly bolster clean energy technologies.

Currently, about 95 percent of hydrogen production worldwide comes from converting fossil fuels such as natural gas into hydrogen — a process that releases large quantities of carbon dioxide into the air, said Maher El - Kady, a UCLA postdoctoral researcher and a co-author of the research.

When applied to semiconducting materials such as silicon, the nickel oxide film prevents rust buildup and facilitates an important chemical process in the solar - driven production of fuels such as methane or hydrogen.

He added that using solar cells and abundantly available elements to split water into hydrogen and oxygen has enormous potential for reducing the cost of hydrogen production and that the approach could eventually replace the current method, which relies on fossil fuels.

Two main hurdles stand in the way of mass production and widespread consumer adoption of hydrogen «fuel cell» vehicles: the still high cost of producing fuel cells, and the lack of a hydrogen refueling network.

This metabolic mode depends on the production and recycling of molecular hydrogen, a high - energy fuel and diffusible gas.

The improvement transformed a catalyst that created two or three oxygen molecules per second to one that produces more than 100 per second — with a corresponding increase in the production of protons and electrons that can be used to create hydrogen fuel.

Posted on 28 February 2013 in Catalysts, Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Production, Hydrogen Storage, Methanol Permalink Comments (2)

2a) Integrated Energy Production and Hydrogen Fueling R&D - innovative component and integration R&D enabling cost competitive stations.

«Hydrogen production by electrolysis of water is the greenest way to convert electricity to chemical fuel,» said Junhua Song, a WSU Ph.D. student who synthesized the catalyst and performed most of the experimental work.

The production method involves processing biogas to deliver renewable hydrogen and then incorporating the renewable hydrogen into conventional liquid fuels via selected refinery... Read more →

Connecticut - based FuelCell Energy (FCE) has applied for a prospective pathway for California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) for the production of hydrogen fuel produced from biogas derived from the mesophilic anaerobic digestion of wastewater sludge at a publicly owned treatment works (POFuel Standard (LCFS) for the production of hydrogen fuel produced from biogas derived from the mesophilic anaerobic digestion of wastewater sludge at a publicly owned treatment works (POfuel produced from biogas derived from the mesophilic anaerobic digestion of wastewater sludge at a publicly owned treatment works (POTW).

For the near - and mid-term alternative fuel options (i.e., hydrotreated oil from animal fats and vegetable oils, and FT liquids), electric power is not an important input to the production process, but hydrogen is.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory catalysis scientists Dr. Wendy Shaw and Dr. Monte Helm led a workshop on hydrogenase mimics, important components of fuel cells that catalyze hydrogen production and use.

A new report on fuel cell vehicles from IHS Automotive forecasts that global production of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) will reach more than 70,000 vehicles annually by 2027, as more automotive OEMs bring FCEVs to market.

Both are aimed at production of hydrogen and other fuels from solar energy.

Posted on 28 April 2010 in Biomass, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), Coal, Coal - to - Liquids (CTL), Fuels, Gasification, Hydrogen Production, Power Generation Permalink Comments (2)

O'Brien, J. E., Stoots, C. M., Herring, J. S., Lessing, P. A., Hartvigsen, J. J., and Elangovan, S., «Performance Measurements of Solid - Oxide Electrolysis Cells for Hydrogen Production from Nuclear Energy,» Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology, Vol.

Prescreening of candidate alloys for the production process that will be exposed the harsh hydrogen - rich environment at elevated temperatures could be carried out using this suite of property / performance equipment that was designed for studies involving hydriding of nuclear fuel cladding.

Katie Randolph is a Technology Manager at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Fuel Cell Technologies Office where she manages a wide range of hydrogen production, delivery, and storage research and development projects.

She received her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder and did her Ph.D. work at Colorado School of Mines focusing on in - depth experimental and modeling studies on high temperature pyrolysis of hydrocarbons and the effects of temperature and fuel structure on conversion, hydrogen production, reactivity, and deposit formation under solid oxide fuel cell operating conditions.

Her research interests include fuel cell catalysis (PEMFCs, DMFCs); contaminants; and renewable hydrogen production, including renewable PEM electrolysis, photoelectrochemistry, fermentation of biomass and the photobiological approach to hydrogen production, and solar thermochemical hydrogen production.

NREL's strength in technology validation and lifecycle analysis on fuel cell products can be leveraged to study lifecycle of the hydrogen production component and system.

Production of fuel cells, electrolyzers and hydrogen storage tanks with lower cost and higher efficiency will be enabled by the work in Research Area 2 (lead by SINTEF).

The main hardware in the existing research infrastructure at IFE Hynor is found in a process room for testing and development of high temperature hydrogen production and solid oxide fuel cell technology (SOFC), including a Dual Bubbling Fluidized Bed reactor prototype (DBFB) for continuous hydrogen production by sorption - enhanced reforming (SER) of methane with an integrated process for CO2 - capture.

The Ames Laboratory's diverse research accomplishments in biofuels production, hydrogen storage, and high - performance magnets power the alternative fuel vehicles of today and the ones down the road to the future.

Ignoring the billions (if not trillions) of dollars needed to create a station infrastructure, consider hydrogen production complexity and cost, a process that still relies entirely on fossil fuels.

Unless the current oil mega-corporations decide to leverage their monumental assets on wide - scale clean production of hydrogen, it's destined to remain a regional alternative fuel experiment.

Like the hydrogen - fueled 7 - series sedans that BMW built for demonstration tours, the Mini E is not a full production exercise.

Said to be acting as a test bed for new technology, the fuel cell car is a precursor to mass production hydrogen powered vehicles, which BMW says could arrive by 2020.

Several auto makers recently united on a push to convince governments worldwide to begin to develop a hydrogen production and fueling infrastructure to support FCVs, Uchiyamada notes.

While the current land speed record for a non-production fuel - cell vehicle stands at 286 mph, and the record for a production - style hydrogen vehicle is 207 mph, the Tucson is the fastest mass - produced vehicle.

When asked about hydrogen as a practical fuel, Bereisa told us, «There's a lot more hydrogen production around than people think, so if the country wanted to move to a hydrogen economy, it could get done pretty quickly and with a lot less investment than we're already seeing in the current stimulus package.»

Production collaboration will help cut costs for the next generation of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles

At the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show, Mercedes - Benz has debuted a fuel cell variant of the GLC - Class compact crossover that previews an upcoming production vehicle with plug - in capability, allowing owners to charge the car in addition to filling up with hydrogen.