Solar Hydrogen: Fuel of the Future
Book, by
Mario Pagliaro and Athanasios
G
Konstandopoulos
RSC Publishing, Cambridge, 2012
ISBN: 9781849731959
Format: Hardback and eBook
Extent: 200 pages + XV, heavily illustrated, in color and grey tones
Renewable hydrogen produced using solar
energy to split water is the
energy fuel of the future. Accelerated innovation in both major domains of
solar energy (photovoltaics and concentrated solar power) has resulted in
the rapid fall of the solar electricity price, opening the route to a
number of practical applications
using solar H2.
New thermochemical water splitting using concentrated solar power (CSP)
has the potential to convert and store solar energy into clean hydrogen
using a tiny fraction of the world's desert area to meet our present and
future global energy needs.
Photovoltaics, in turn, has the versatility required for supporting the
creation of a distributed energy
generation infrastructure in developing countries especially now that the
price of PV solar electricity has fallen to unprecedented low levels.
In all these cases, solar hydrogen will be used to store energy and
release it on demand either for fuel cells (to power homes and boats) or
internal combustion engines and turbines (for powering cars, trucks and in
thermoelectric power units).
Book Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Hydrogen and Solar Hydrogen
- Hydrogen: Structure and Properties
- Hydrogen Production and Utilization
- Solar Hydrogen
- Hydrogen Safety and Sustainability
- Hydrogen as Energy Carrier: Exergizing the Energy System
- The Hydrogen Science & Technology Network
- References
- Water electrolysis with solar
electricity
- Water Electrolysis
- Current Electrolytic Technologies
- Photovoltaic-Assisted Water Electrolysis
- Economics of Water Electrolysis
- Emerging Electrocatalytic Technologies
- Reducing the Cost of Electrolytic Hydrogen
- A Flexible Technology with Large Applicative Potential
- References
- Thermochemical Water Splitting
- Concentrating Solar Power for Heavy Energy Demand
- Hydrosol: Thermochemical Water Splitting
- Carbon Neutral Solar Fuels
- Solar Hydrogen and the Electron Economy
- References
- Solar Hydrogen Utilization
- Hydrogen Fuel Cells Engines
- Hydrogen Fuelled Internal Combustion Engines
- Hydrogen Motoring: A Dream Never Coming True?
- Hydrogen Fuelled Power Plants
- Hydrogen Energy for Distributed Generation
- Portable Devices Running on Hydrogen
- An Insight into the Solar Hydrogen Economy
- References
- Index
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