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Steinberg, M., Clean Carbon and Hydrogen Fuels from Coal and Other Carbonaceous Raw Materials, BNL-39630 Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, 1987. 

Demonstrated only on the laboratory scale. It was developed in the 1970s as a potentially economic method of obtaining hydrogen fuel from a high-temperature source. 

McKinley, K.R., Browne, S.H., Neill, D.R., Seki, A., and Taka-hashi, PK. (1990). Hydrogen Fuel from Renewable Resources, Energy Sources, 12. pp. 105-110. 

The scope of this chapter is to present a concise and fundamental overview of the relationship between modem catalysis and chemical reaction engineering through one of the topics that will certainly be present among the future directions in both fields production of hydrogen fuel from fossil and renewable energy sources and its use in the fuel cells-based energy conversion technology. 

Plug Power, a Latham, NY, based manufacturer of stationary hydrogen fuel cell generator units for backup power has developed a hydrogen fueling station with the help of Honda. This station uses a small steam reformer that extracts hydrogen fuel from natural gas using steam. The steam reformer has been reduced to half the size of the previous version. 

A plot of the efficiency of conversion of solar light to clean hydrogen fuel from water is shown in Fig. 10.27. A maximum efficiency of 8.4% was obtained, and this could be increased to 9.3% by increasing the temperature to 43°C. In 1998 Turner et al. improved upon this and obtained 16% efficiency in the catalyzed photoelectro-chemical splitting of water. 

All-Inclusive Cost of Hydrogen Fuel from Electrolysis... 

Joan Ogden from ITS-Davis takes a step back from automotive manufacturing to address the challenge of cost competitively distributing hydrogen fuel from production sites to vehicle refueling stations. She notes that hydrogen can be produced from a variety of feedstocks with zero or nearzero emissions—at scales suited to households up to entire cities. 

Hydrogen is biochemical mortar. The H-H bond has electrons that make new bonds in new molecules and provide energy for life s energy-intensive processes. Hydrogen provides fuel for life as well as for future cars. Some scientists think we can run serpentinization in the lab to make hydrogen fuel from water and cheap rock. 

The effect of the carbon monoxide is to occupy platinum catalyst sites - the compound has an affinity for platinum and it covers the catalyst, preventing the hydrogen fuel from reaching it. Experience suggests that a concentration of carbon monoxide as low as 10 ppm has an unacceptable effect on the performance of a PEM fuel cell. This means that the CO levels in the fuel gas stream need to be brought down by a factor of 500 or more. 

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