Sustainable Hydrogen Production, Storage and Utilization
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A5: Hydrogen Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2019) | Viewed by 37632
Special Issue Editors
Interests: abatement of CO2 emissions; coal and biomass utilization; hydrogen production
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Interests: biomass; wastes; biogas; torrefaction; hydrogen production; gasification; reforming; sorption enhanced steam reforming; kinetics; carbon dioxide capture; adsorption
Interests: materials for hydrogen storage; piezoceramics; nanostructured alloys; heterogeneous catalysis; mechanochemistry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hydrogen is a promising clean energy carrier for the future that, unavoidably, needs to be produced using environmentally-benign technologies. Future research needs to focus on the development of technologies for low-cost, highly-efficient hydrogen production from diverse renewable sources. A portfolio of feedstocks and production technologies will be necessary to reach a true hydrogen economy. Hydrogen can be sustainably produced from fossil fuels (natural gas, coal) with associated carbon capture on the near term, but renewable biomass and splitting of water with renewable energy (wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric) or by biological and photoelectrochemical methods need to be deployed on the long term. An improvement of the efficiency of hydrogen production technologies as well as a reduction on the cost of capital equipment, operations, and maintenance are still required. Hydrogen storage is an important challenge in the development of the hydrogen energy system, and particularly for large-scale applications. Different methods for the storage of hydrogen are under study, mainly based on metal hydrides, hydrocarbons, high pressure compression, and cryogenics. Fuel cells are, by far, the main field of utilization of hydrogen and are very attractive to the industry sector. New developments aim at lowering costs and improving the performance and durability.
Research articles involving recent developments on novel and emerging technologies and future trends in the field of sustainable hydrogen production, storage, and its utilization as an energy resource are highly encouraged.
Dr. Covadonga Pevida García
Dr. M. Victoria Gil
Dr. Sebastiano Garroni
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sustainable hydrogen production
- Biomass
- Water splitting/Electrolysis
- Renewable energy-based hydrogen
- Thermochemical hydrogen
- Photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen
- Biological hydrogen
- Hydrogen storage
- Fuel cells
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