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Ways To Produce Hydrogen Gas For Vehicle Use

By: Adrian Fletcher

Hydrogen gas is one of the most abundant elements on the planet. This makes it possible to produce the element in gas form using a wide variety of methods and raw materials providing possibly the most flexible fuel on the earth. In a traditional plant setting, producing hydrogen gas can begin with raw materials such as coal, water, natural gas, algae or biomass (natural organic composting materials).

Gasification is the act of producing hydrogen gas from a raw material like biomass or coal by a process that involves extreme heating and subsequent cooling of the raw material, separation and purification. The hydrogen produced in this way can then be used to generate electricity or for any regular fuel need. For power plants that are traditionally fueled by coal as a means to generate electricity, using coal gasification to produce hydrogen gas as the fuel source for this electricity results in much lower emissions.

Producing hydrogen gas using water is one of the greenest production methods possible when the energy source can be generated from renewable energy sources like solar power or wind generators. The principle method is electrolysis which means that electric current is passed through water and an electrolyte. This separates water into its component parts of hydrogen gas and oxygen. Nuclear energy or even the earth's own geothermal energy may also be used as an energy source for the electricity requires to make the process work.

Thermochemical Water Splitting involves producing hydrogen gas from water through a chemical reaction between water and certain chemicals at a high degree of temperature. This is basically available at nuclear plants. The difference between High-temperature Electrolysis to produce hydrogen gas and that extracted by electricity is only that in the former, the water is brought to the required temperature by heat that is generated by nuclear power production whereas in the latter, the same is done by using electric current.

Producing hydrogen gas using natural gas as the raw material is achieved through a process called Steam Methane Reformation. This is a two-step method, which burns the natural gas to create steam, which results in a synthesis gas from which the hydrogen can be separated. This method, though not as environmentally friendly as electrolysis is currently used to produce roughly ninety-five percent of all hydrogen in the United States.

Hydrogen can also be produced from algae or bacteria found in wastewater using a method called Photo-Biological Production. Using this method the algae are deprived of sulfur, which causes them to stop emitting oxygen and emit hydrogen. This method of producing hydrogen gas is currently receiving a great deal of attention because it is the greenest of all the methods utilizing both renewable and waste material by products as its primary ingredient or "feedstock".

When compared to fossil fuel production, producing hydrogen gas clearly provides numerous benefits going forward. The apparent abundance of hydrogen gives it a real future whereas fossil fuels have a very limited time line. No matter the exact production method used, plentiful sources of hydrogen make it clearly the fuel of the future. And it seems only a matter of time that new appliances and applications start to be produced to take advantage of this new fuel.

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