Options for Hydrogen and Syngas Production

Current commercial processes for syngas and H2 production largely depends on fossil fuels both as the source of hydrogen and as the source of energy for the production processing.4 Fossil fuels are nonrenewable energy resources, but they provide a more economical path to hydrogen production in the near term (next 5-20 years) and perhaps they will continue to play an important role in the midterm (20-50 years from now). Alternative processes need to be developed that do not 

Hydrogen Source Energy Source Reaction Processes 

Natural gasa Fossil energy0 Steam reforming1  

Tar sands, oil shale Nuclear energy Catalytic dehydrogenation0 

Organic/animal waste Wind, wave, geothermal Membrane reactors 

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