Hydrogen basic research

Basic Research Needs for the Hydrogen Economy, Report of the basic energy sciences workshop on hydrogen production, storage, and use. May 13-15, 2003. US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Second Printing, February 2004. 

As well as the previously described methods of hydrogen production, there are other commercial processes whose application is restricted to specialised production conditions. These include the partial oxidation of heavy hydrocarbons, autothermal reforming and the Kvcerner process. In addition, there are numerous production processes that are still at the basic research stage, but show promising potential. These primarily include thermochemical hydrogen production, photochemical and biological processes. The main characteristics of these methods are outlined below. For a more detailed discussion, please refer to the relevant specialist literature. 

The hydrogen storage portfolio covers on-board and ofl-board hydrogen storage systems and it has basic research and application-oriented projects. STORHY23, "Hydrogen Storage for Automotive... 

Development of hydrogen production processes, including basic research of hydrogen storage and utilisation. 

This work has been supported financially by Presidium of RAS (Program for basic research Hydrogen Energetics (project 2.4)). 

Research supported by the Program of focused basic Researches Hydrogen Energy ofNational Academy of Sciences of Belarus, project No Hydrogen 13 . 

The complete cost data sets with assumptions for the cases in Table 4-1 are given in Appendix E. These cost estimates also include estimates of future improvements through technology refinements and basic research these results are not listed in Table 4-1 because they do not change the overall conclusions with respect to where the critical areas for cost improvement lie for the distribution and dispensing of hydrogen in a future fuel cell economy. 

DOE. 2003e. Basic Research Needs for the Hydrogen Economy Report of the Basic Energy Sciences Workshop on Hydrogen Production Storage and Use. Washington, D.C. U.S. Department of Energy. 

The current R D portfolio does not allow for out of the box thinking. It needs to encourage exploratory basic research involving other approaches, such as methods of enhancing hydrogen production by radiolysis or photolysis in properly designed radiation sources. 

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