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OCTOBER 7, 2018

Rice University nanoscientists have demonstrated a new catalyst that can convert ammonia into hydrogen fuel at ambient pressure using only light energy, mainly due to a plasmonic effect that makes the catalyst more efficient. Photo by LANP/Rice University). To drive it away, more energy must be added to the system.

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JULY 13, 2018

All are invited to submit, from 25 June to 20 September, innovative scientific research projects using Essential Small Molecules on these topics: Topic #01 on hydrogen production: “Lower-CO 2 H 2 ”. How to produce cost competitive hydrogen while reducing greenhouse gas emissions?

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JUNE 4, 2023

The collaboration is further supported by a strong research consortium including Safran Tech (the Research & Technology Center of Safran Group), the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, Fraunhofer Institute, the French National Centre for Scientific Research, the University of Strasbourg, and the IMDEA Energy Institute.

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APRIL 27, 2016

DLR is presenting the HY4—a four-seater passenger fuel cell hybrid electric aircraft prototype ( earlier post )— at the 2016 Hannover Messe, along with research and development partners Hydrogenics, Pipistrel, H2FLY, the University of Ulm and Stuttgart Airport.

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JUNE 11, 2020

In Germany, BSE Engineering and the Institute for Renewable Energy Systems at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences (IRES) have demonstrated the conversion of wind power into renewable methanol. The team uses green electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen in an electrolysis step.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

The California Energy Commission and California Air Resources Board released the annual Joint Agency Staff Report on Assembly Bill 8: 2016 Assessment of Time and Cost Needed to Attain 100 Hydrogen Refueling Stations in California. Source: CEC, CARB 2016 Joint Staff Report. Click to enlarge. million for these costs.

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AUGUST 13, 2014

Carter said that a prime example of the R&D focus is the hydrogen fuel cell sedan to be launched to the public in California next summer ( earlier post ) and, he suggested, thereafter to the East Coast. That leaves the issue of the hydrogen infrastructure, which, as Toyota has said often recently, needs to be developed.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

The SOLETAIR project ( earlier post ) has produced its first 200 liters of synthetic fuel from solar energy and the air’s carbon dioxide via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. The mobile chemical pilot plant produces gasoline, diesel, and kerosene from regenerative hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The SOLETAIR project started in 2016.

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

The Hydrogen Station Equipment Performance device ( HyStEP ) ( earlier post ), developed by US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), could reduce the time to commission new hydrogen refueling stations from months to just one week. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Major corporate and public sector partners in Japan are launching an effort to test a full carbon-neutral hydrogen supply chain powered by renewable wind energy. While hydrogen is most commonly created through steam methane reforming, it can also be created from water through electrolysis. Use of fuel cell forklifts.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2015

The Hydrogen Education Foundation announced the official list of contestants for the $1-million H2 Refuel H-Prize competition. In October 2014, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) and the Hydrogen Education Foundation (HEF) launched the $1-million H2 Refuel H-Prize. Millennium Reign Energy.

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JULY 7, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $13 million in funding for the advancement of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. The projects selected under this consortium will work to improve onboard automotive hydrogen storage systems by lowering the cost and increasing the storage capacity to enable hydrogen infrastructure.

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APRIL 13, 2016

The 2016 SAE World Congress is again featuring a technical track (PFL 720) on advances in hydrogen fuel cell vehicle technology, followed by a technical expert panel discussion (PFL 799) on the commercialization of fuel cell vehicles and hydrogen infrastructure. Earlier post.).

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JULY 21, 2016

Rocks formed beneath the ocean floor by fast-spreading tectonic plates may be a large and previously overlooked source of free hydrogen gas, a new Duke University study suggests. In the Duke model, hydrogen production rates increase with spreading rate and the net thickness of serpentinizing peridotite (S-P) in a column of lithosphere.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

President Barack Obama’s 2016 Budget requests $29.9 billion for the US Department of Energy (DOE). The FY 2016 DOE Budget Request represents a 9% increase ($2.5 billion (35.8%) science and energy Budget Request, $1.3 billion, the FY 2016 Budget requests $4.8 billion for applied energy activities, including: $2.72

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JULY 21, 2016

A team of researchers from the UK’s Cardiff University’s Cardiff Catalysis Institute and Queen’s University Belfast have shown that significant amounts of hydrogen can be unlocked from fescue grass—without significant pre-treatment—using sunlight and a metal-loaded titania photocatalyst. —Caravaca et al.

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JANUARY 21, 2015

CSULA) Hydrogen Research and Fueling Facility has become the first hydrogen station in California to be certified to sell fuel to the public by the kilogram measure. Selling by the tank required a flat price be paid, irrespective of the actual amount of hydrogen dispensed. Hydrogen Research and Fueling Facility.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Toshiba Corporation Energy System and Solutions Company (ESS) has integrated a hydrogen fuel cell system into an experimental vessel, “Raicho N”. We installed two stationary pure hydrogen fuel cells on the boat as Toshiba for the first time, both with an output of 3.5kW.

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JUNE 3, 2016

Researchers at Harvard have created a hybrid water splitting–biosynthetic system based on a biocompatible Earth-abundant inorganic catalyst system to split water into molecular hydrogen and oxygen (H 2 and O 2 ) at low driving voltages. That’s exactly what we did, but we do it significantly better, because we turn all that energy into a fuel.

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JANUARY 7, 2014

Toyota opened the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with a strong affirmation of the benefits of and potential for hydrogen fuel cell technology. “ Refueling of its hydrogen tanks takes three to five minutes. For years, the use of hydrogen gas to power an electric vehicle has been seen by many smart people as a foolish quest.

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MARCH 15, 2016

A team of researchers at Kyushu University’s International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I 2 CNER) reports devising a method for using a new type of catalyst support for highly active gold nanoparticle catalysts for fuel cells. An open access paper on the work is published in Scientific Reports. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2016

A team of researchers at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea University, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed a new type of multilayered (Au NPs/TiO 2 /Au) photoelectrode that could boost the ability of solar water-splitting to produce hydrogen. 2016.01.004.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

According to the newly released State of the States: Fuel Cells in America 2016 report from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO), the top three hydrogen and fuel cell states in the US are California, Connecticut, and New York.

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JULY 24, 2016

Researchers at Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), with colleagues at Princeton University, have developed a new method for uniting light-capturing photonic nanomaterials and high-efficiency metal catalysts, creating an “antenna-reactor” plasmonic catalyst. Swearer/Rice University) Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

On 29 September 2016, the HY4 aircraft took off on its first official flight from Stuttgart Airport. The HY4 is the world’s first four-seat passenger aircraft powered solely by a hydrogen fuel cell system. DLR researchers were responsible for developing the hydrogen fuel cell power train and installing it in the aircraft.

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DECEMBER 19, 2016

A team of researchers from Missouri University of Science and Technology and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece have developed a highly efficient transition metal selenide-based coordination complex, [Ni{(SePiPr 2 ) 2 N} 2 ] for oxygen evolution and hydrogen evolution reactions (OER and HER, respectively) in alkaline solution.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

There has been much discussion for over thirty years or more around the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to the internal combustion engine. Proponents believe such a car could be easily refuelled with hydrogen and assumed it would have greater range than a pure all-electric car.

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APRIL 25, 2011

NCSU had earlier licensed the technology to Diversified Energy ( earlier post ). Diversified Energy’s license agreement was terminated, according to Dr. Diversified Energy’s license agreement was terminated, according to Dr. Terry Bray at NCSU’s Office of Technology Transfer. Step 1: Hydrolysis. Deoxygenation.

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APRIL 13, 2017

Researchers at KAUST have developed and used a novel way of increasing the chemical reactivity of a two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide material to produce a cheap and effective catalyst for water splitting to produce hydrogen. The speed of this hydrogen evolution reaction can be increased using a catalyst on the electrodes.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

In 2016, DOE national laboratories identified the potential of hydrogen to decarbonize deeply a multitude of sectors in a proposal termed “H2@Scale”. This request for proposals also seeks to increase industrial and stakeholder engagement in H2@ Scale through investment and leadership of the associated projects.

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APRIL 11, 2017

The “self-heating” boron catalyst makes particularly efficient use of sunlight to reduce CO 2 , serving as a light harvester, photothermal converter, hydrogen generator, and catalyst in one. At this temperature it reacts with water, forming hydrogen and boron oxides in situ. When the sun shines on a surface, it is heated.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The London Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has begun a trial to test Suzuki Burgman hydrogen-powered scooters. The hydrogen fuel cell scooters will be used by Police Community Support Officers within the Roads and Transport Policing Command and will be based at Alperton Deployment Centre. Intelligent Energy and DIGIMAN.

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APRIL 8, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released its five-year 2014-2018 Strategic Plan. The plan is organized into 12 strategic objectives aimed at three distinct goals: Science and Energy; Nuclear Security; and Management and Performance. Leverage increased private sector financing for deployment of “all of the above” energy technologies.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

million) award from Europe’s Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) and will run for three years. Dana is developing an optimized design of metallic bipolar plate that delivers the hydrogen and air to the MEA and transmits the electricity generated to power the vehicle. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 15, 2018

However, at present, the use of cobalt is still often necessary for cathode materials with high energy density owing to its stabilizing effect in layered oxides (including NCM(622) and NCA). Estimated number of devices and related energy demand for 2016–2050. b | The energy-storage demand for the reference devices.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. The results, said the researchers, indicate that their process is a complicated reaction system including in situ hydrogen transfer, aromatization, decarboxylation, and cracking. Credit: ACS, Tian et al. Click to enlarge. 6b00978.

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JUNE 7, 2016

An international team led by researchers at the University of Melbourne has developed a new catalyst system for the efficient removal of CO 2 from formic acid (HO 2 CH), resulting in the production of CO 2 and H 2 at a low temperature of 70 °C. —Zavras et al. Zavras et al. Click to enlarge. —Professor O’Hair.

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