Energy vectors

H. Lennartz and co-workers. Vaporisation Equilibrium of the Water—Sulfuric Acid System, Rep. Fur. 6783, Commission of European Communities, Hydrogen Energy Vector, Europe, 1980, pp. 60—70. 

To address these problems and to face the oil wells dry up and the simultaneous rapid increase of energy demands all over the world, many efforts have been dedicated to the gradual substitution of fossil fuels by new energy vectors. These efforts have been dedicated to the gradual substitution of all ordinary fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) by new energy vectors, primarily because of the natural resources exhaustion and the simultaneous rapid increase of energy demands worldwide. 

With the expected increasing significance of hydrogen as a universal chemical and as an energy vector, its physical and thermodynamic properties are undergoing extensive investigation. To provide a basis of understanding for the themes covered in the remainder of the book, this chapter briefly describes the fundamental properties of... 

Neither the use of hydrogen as an energy vector nor the vision of a hydrogen economy is new. Until the 1960s, hydrogen was used in many countries in the form... 

In the 1970s, a first serious energy crisis related to a sharp increase in the cost of fossil fuels led to a revival of interest in water electrolysis. This time the interest was focused on hydrogen as an energy vector that could possibly replace fossil fuels in the world economy The aim was twofold to become relatively independent of the influence of the oil market and to reduce the environmental impact of the... 

Nowadays, the concerns about pollution and the recent dramatic increase in the price of oil have definitely boosted interest in hydrogen as an energy vector and a clean fuel, although the problem of a dean energy source is still far from being solved. 

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