All the arguments that hydrogen is very common in the universe, usually rest on the existence of serious problems with its release from the substances that it forms with other elements. In the hydrogen industrial scale production is carried out using natural gas as feedstock, but also in this case the economy of the process is far from perfect. Production of hydrogen by electrolysis of water requires not only a lot of energy, but also takes a long time. According to EE Times
website, specialists of one of the scientific laboratories of the US Department of Energy was able to find a catalyst, significantly accelerates the process of producing hydrogen from water.
By ordinary water in this particular case a proton-added ion liquid with dissolved therein a nickel catalyst which accelerates hydrogen evolution 1000 times. In addition, nickel is much more prevalent on our planet than platinum, which is commonly used in this technology. The problem so far is that the nickel catalyst is not reducing the cost of energy for hydrogen production by this method, and while talking on the implementation of the invention in practice is not necessary. First you need
to significantly improve the energy efficiency of the technology.
However, if this method will be able to implement in practice, while replenishing stock average electric power hydrogen fuel cells could be reduced to 90 seconds. Related Products :
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