The device also is a step forward because
it produces hydrogen fuel in an environmentally friendly way.
The study provides a vital clue to that coupling: placing the catalyst in a proton - packed liquid with plenty of water
produces hydrogen fuel quickly and efficiently.
Hyundai's Tucson will be the world's first mass -
produced hydrogen fuel cell vehicle.
This could also lead to a fundamental change in the entire process of
producing hydrogen fuel.
The device could make hydrogen cars affordable for many more consumers because it produces hydrogen using nickel, iron and cobalt — elements that are much more abundant and less expensive than the platinum and other precious metals that are currently used to
produce hydrogen fuel.
Honda is also producing and distributing energy through sustainable methods, such as using solar power to
produce hydrogen fuel from water.
As part of a technology development partnership, Honda is in talks with General Motors to help reduce costs in
producing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
The mixed oxide that consists of a blend of two known catalysts, zinc oxide and zirconium oxide, was actually developed to
produce hydrogen fuel from ethanol.
The device could make hydrogen cars affordable for many more consumers because it produces hydrogen using nickel, iron and cobalt — elements that are much more abundant and less expensive than the platinum and other precious metals that are currently used to
produce hydrogen fuel.
In previous efforts to
produce hydrogen fuel, catalysts have been immobilized on non-photoactive substrates.
Not exact matches
Consider this: One tablespoon of liquid
hydrogen fuel — a mix of deuterium and tritium — would
produce the same energy as 28 tons of coal.
Maybe we will
produce our energy from
hydrogen, so that fossil
fuels can be consigned to history's dustbin.
On the blackboard, fusing
hydrogen atoms
produces enormous amounts of heat which can be captured and developed into an energy source, energy that is safe, cheap, does not burn fossil
fuels or consume non-renewable resources.
Fuel cells
produce hydrogen, store it and then convert it into electricity.
Toronto - based Hydrogenics, for example,
produces fuel cells that convert
hydrogen into clean electricity.
Both companies
produce fuel cells that convert
hydrogen into clean electricity and nearly half of Ballard's sales now come from China, as the country adds
hydrogen -
fuelled electric buses to its roads.
Cars running on
hydrogen fuel cells
produce zero emissions, but currently, factories must use fossil
fuels, such as natural gas, or precious metals, such as platinum, to...
Hydrogen gas is a promising alternative energy source to overcome our reliance on carbon - based
fuels, and has the benefit of
producing only water when it is reacted with oxygen.
UNSW Sydney chemists have invented a new, cheap catalyst for splitting water with an electrical current to efficiently
produce clean
hydrogen fuel.
There's also currently no cost - effective way to capture the carbon dioxide
produced in making
hydrogen from natural gas on site at a
fueling station, which would undermine any climate benefits.
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.
Hydrogen can be combined with carbon from agricultural biomass to
produce fuel, fertilizer and other products.
The group found that although
fuel - cell vehicles would
produce zero greenhouse - gas emissions during use, the extraction and refinement of
hydrogen fuel would release three to five times as much carbon into the air as is released in procuring and refining gasoline and diesel.
Fuel cells are far greener than gas - powered engines because they produce electricity without burning up the hydrogen (or other fuel) that powers t
Fuel cells are far greener than gas - powered engines because they
produce electricity without burning up the
hydrogen (or other
fuel) that powers t
fuel) that powers them.
The water - gas shift reaction, in which carbon monoxide is removed from the
fuel gas stream by reacting with water to
produce carbon dioxide and
hydrogen, is a key step in the process.
Hyundai Motor Co. is currently in the process of building a public
fueling station in Chino, Calif., with «the capability» to
produce hydrogen from electrolysis using renewable energy that's expected to open before the end of the year.
Natural gas blended with renewable
hydrogen also
produces less emissions than regular natural gas when used at a power plant or as a transport
fuel.
Fuel cell vehicles
produce zero tailpipe emissions, but the entire
hydrogen production stream needs to be low - carbon
«So as long as you're using renewable electricity and not some kind of brown electricity, that is really the most direct pathway to
producing real, carbon - free
hydrogen fuel.»
Asteroids also contain an abundance of water, which, aside from serving as hydration during space travel, could be used as a shield to protect spaceships from the sun's radiation or to
produce hydrogen - and oxygen - based rocket
fuels.
The work, which appears in the November 27, 2014, edition of Science Express, points to new avenues for
producing single - site supported gold catalysts that could
produce high - grade
hydrogen for cleaner energy use in
fuel - cell powered devices, including vehicles.
A
fuel - cell electric vehicle works by converting
hydrogen to electricity,
producing only heat and water in the process.
Previously, researchers have
produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike
fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy
produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil
fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
Hydrogen fuel itself can be developed relatively cheaply from natural gas, or
produced from renewable sources of biogas or directly from water through electrolysis.
Although the catalyst does
produce oxygen from water, it does not
produce hydrogen gas (H2) that can be burnt in a
fuel cell.
Units 1 and 3 have experienced explosions that destroyed exterior walls, apparently from buildups of
hydrogen gas
produced by the zirconium in the
fuel rods reacting with coolant water at extremely high temperatures — but the interior containment vessels there thus far seem to be intact.
Currently, electrolyzers (machines that split water into its constituent
hydrogen and oxygen) need a catalyst, namely platinum, to run; ditto
fuel cells to recombine that
hydrogen with oxygen, which
produces electricity.
«
Hydrogen produced onboard the aircraft during flight can be channeled to a
fuel cell for electrical energy generation,» said lead researcher Dr. Shani Elitzur of the Technion Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.
Clean electricity could
produce hydrogen for
fuel - cell - powered vehicles and replace on - site boilers and furnaces for residential heating.
But by building on the basic step of achieving such high quantum efficiency for solar
hydrogen generation, we could make the process of
producing a «green»
fuel much greener as well.»
It's possible to
produce hydrogen to power
fuel cells by extracting the gas from seawater, but the electricity required to do it makes the process costly.
The catalyst the researchers have developed effectively drives the process of combining CO2 with
hydrogen to
produce methane (the main component of the fossil
fuel natural gas) and water.
Needless to say, the human body does not
produce hydrogen peroxide needed to
fuel nanomotors, so Wang and his colleagues are working on ways to synthesize it from glucose.
Rechargeable batteries are too heavy for the job, so engineers are planning to try a technology that would use current to separate water into oxygen and
hydrogen during the day, and then reverse the process at night via
fuel cells to
produce electricity.
Nor is the Chevrolet Equinox the first
fuel cell vehicle General Motors (GM) has ever
produced: The 1966 Electrovan, an unwieldy and prohibitively expensive
fuel cell van that never made it out of the lab, was the first of about 40 or so
hydrogen -
fueled vehicles that have been built by the U.S. carmaker.
Achieving fusion — nuclear reactions that have the potential to
produce copious, clean energy — requires heating
hydrogen fuel to more than 100 million degrees Celsius, causing it to become an ionized gas or plasma.
The municipality, which will ultimately aim to be zero carbon and zero waste, will boast a plant to
produce hydrogen as well as
fuel from the residents» sewage, according to planners Foster + Partners.
Producing electricity in a
hydrogen fuel cell has one by - product: water.
Inertial confinement is an alternative method in which small capsules of
hydrogen - isotope
fuel are crushed to
produce the intense temperature and pressure needed for fusion to occur.
Lord envisions that excess
hydrogen produced throughout the year could be brought to geologic storage sites and then piped to cities during the summer, when the demand for driving
fuels peaks.