Sentences with phrase «hydrogen production efficiency»

Based on this analysis, the top three ways to reduce GHG emissions at refineries processing heavier crude will be to (1) reduce the amount of hydrogen consumed, (2) increase hydrogen production efficiency (and / or lower GHG emissions intensity of hydrogen production), and (3) capture CO2 from the most concentrated, highest volume sources (i.e., FCC and SMR).

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Although many scientists worldwide are engaged in efforts to achieve quantum efficiency as close as possible to 100 % for solar hydrogen production, Yan's achievement in directly exceeding this threshold is a significant fundamental breakthrough.

Essentially, they created what is known as a quantum dot photoelectrochemical cell that catalytically achieved quantum efficiency for hydrogen gas production exceeding 100 % — in the case of their experiments an efficiency approaching 114 %.

«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.

Wood also is a principal investigator in the Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's (EERE) HydroGEN Advanced Water Splitting Materials Consortium, an Energy Materials Network node focused on hydrogen production froHydroGEN Advanced Water Splitting Materials Consortium, an Energy Materials Network node focused on hydrogen production frohydrogen production from water.

Hikita said this is a huge improvement in efficiency and would drastically cut the energy needed in a potential hydrogen production plant that would run around the clock.

Advanced materials are essential in improving the overall system efficiency at high hydrogen production rates, reducing capital cost, and efficiently using renewable and industrial waste heats.

Future technologies that need R&D: high - efficiency photovoltaics (say, 50 % conversion)(as well as lowering the cost of PV), energy storage systems for intermittent sources like solar and wind (hydrogen storage, other methods), advances in biofuel technology (for example, hydrogen production from algae, cellulosic ethanol, etc..)

Drawn to the topic, Matthew Early completed his first renewable energy project in 4th grade when he studied salt's effect on the efficiency of electrolysis for hydrogen production.

Currently, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy funds research and development of low - carbon hydrogen production pathways, and by establishing HydroGEN, the DOE intends to accelerate innovation with the assistance of the national laborhydrogen production pathways, and by establishing HydroGEN, the DOE intends to accelerate innovation with the assistance of the national laborHydroGEN, the DOE intends to accelerate innovation with the assistance of the national laboratories.

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).

Efficiencies of thermo - chemical hydrogen production with electric co-generation are projected at around 60 %.

They are also studying ways to increase the efficiency of hydrogen production from water.

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recaptured the record for highest efficiency in solar hydrogen production via a photoelectrochemical (PEC) water - splitting process.

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Gary Moore, a chemist and principal investigator with Berkeley Lab's Physical Biosciences Division, led an efficiency analysis study of a unique photocathode material he and his research group have developed for catalyzing the production of hydrogen fuel from sunlight.

There are various types of technologies that can play significant roles in mitigating climate change, including energy efficiency improvements throughout the energy system (especially at the end use side); solar, wind, nuclear fission and fusion and geothermal, biomass and clean fossil technologies, including carbon capture and storage; energy from waste; hydrogen production from non-fossil energy sources and fuel cells (Pacala and Socolow, 2004; IEA, 2006b).

High - temperature, gas - cooled reactors promise a particularly high - efficiency and scalable route to combined power and hydrogen production.