Smart Materials for Hydrogen Energy

• Autor(a) principal: Titus, Elby
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Gil, João Campos, Chaudhari, Ajay, Rangel, C. M.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.9/3322
• topic: Materials; Hydrogen; Clean energy

ABSTRACT: Hydrogen has come out as a dominant part of clean energy component. Despite being the most abundant element in universe, passing the milestones of renewable hydrogen economy, from production to application is challenging. Great effort is required to extract the embedded hydrogen gas from other compounds, store and transport the same. Hydrogen found in organic compounds (hydrocarbons) can be separated by thermal processing known as reforming and it is the most commonly used method today. Electrolysis is a promising technology that uses electric current to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. Renewable energy sources like sun and wind can be used as clean energy source to produce hydrogen by water splitting. In future hydrogen could also be used as electricity, being an important energy carrier. AEM2018, the 3rd International conference on advanced energy materials held at the University of Surrey, England, gathered eminent researchers, from over 50 countries to discuss the latest technologies that can be employed in advanced renewable energy projects. The special issue of AEM2018 is a collection of selected papers on topic hydrogen energy, presented at AEM2018. The highlights were hydrogen production, storage, transportation, photovoltaics, fuel cells and electrochemical systems.