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Rethinking chemical production with “green” hydrogen

  • Gabriele Centi EMAIL logo und Siglinda Perathoner
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 3. November 2023
Pure and Applied Chemistry
Aus der Zeitschrift Pure and Applied Chemistry Band 96 Heft 4

Abstract

This contribution critically addresses the “green” H2 production issue. After introducing the topic and the limits of the production of H2 from electrolysis, some examples of alternative methods are discussed, highlighting the possibility of reducing costs, carbon footprint and intensity of use of renewable energy compared to electrolysis.

Keywords: Avogadro Colloquia 2022; Green H2 ; H2 production alternatives; H2 from waste; H2 from methane decomposition; SMR electrification
Corresponding author: Gabriele Centi, Department ChiBioFarAM of the University of Messina, Messina, Italy; and European Research Institute of Catalysis, Brussels, Belgium, e-mail:
Article note: Invited commentary article based on the lecture “From 1st to 2nd generation technologies to make chemicals via green hydrogen” presented at AVOGADRO COLLOQUIA 2022 – From Water to Chemicals: Vision and Opportunities of a Sustainable Hydrogen Society Rome, 15th – 16th Dec. 2022.

  1. Research funding: This work was financially supported by the European Commission (EU project EreTech – Electrified Reactor Technology, ID 101058608) and MITE (Italian Ministery for Ecological Transition), project MECCA (Green H2 from biomethane cracking through an innovative technology based on non-thermal plasma and nanocarbon catalysis – ID RSH2A_000002).

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Published Online: 2023-11-03
Published in Print: 2024-04-25

© 2023 IUPAC & De Gruyter

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  1. Frontmatter
  2. In this issue
  3. Preface
  4. Avogadro Colloquia in Rome on “Vision and Opportunities of a Sustainable Hydrogen Society”
  5. Conference papers
  6. H2 in the energy transition
  7. Watching atoms at work during reactions
  8. Hydrogen production and conversion to chemicals: a zero-carbon puzzle?
  9. Rethinking chemical production with “green” hydrogen
  10. Hydrogen as an energy carrier: constraints and opportunities
  11. Shaping the future of green hydrogen: De Nora’s electrochemical technologies for fueling the energy transition
  12. In-situ and operando Grazing Incidence XAS: a novel set-up and its application to model Pd electrodes for alcohols oxidation
  13. Hydrogen storage and handling with hydrides
  14. Advanced polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolysis for power to gas applications
  15. Inkjet printed acrylate-urethane modified poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) flexible conductive films
  16. Cu(II) complexes using acylhydrazones or cyclen for biocidal antifouling coatings
  17. Randomly cross-linked amphiphilic copolymer networks of n-butyl acrylate and N,N-dimethylacrylamide: synthesis and characterization
  18. Roles of electrostatics and intermolecular electronic motions in the structural and spectroscopic features of hydrogen- and halogen-bonded systems
  19. The accurate assessment of the chemical speciation of complex systems through multi-technique approaches
https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2023-0804
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
Avogadro Colloquia 2022; Green H2; H2 production alternatives; H2 from waste; H2 from methane decomposition; SMR electrification

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. In this issue
  3. Preface
  4. Avogadro Colloquia in Rome on “Vision and Opportunities of a Sustainable Hydrogen Society”
  5. Conference papers
  6. H2 in the energy transition
  7. Watching atoms at work during reactions
  8. Hydrogen production and conversion to chemicals: a zero-carbon puzzle?
  9. Rethinking chemical production with “green” hydrogen
  10. Hydrogen as an energy carrier: constraints and opportunities
  11. Shaping the future of green hydrogen: De Nora’s electrochemical technologies for fueling the energy transition
  12. In-situ and operando Grazing Incidence XAS: a novel set-up and its application to model Pd electrodes for alcohols oxidation
  13. Hydrogen storage and handling with hydrides
  14. Advanced polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolysis for power to gas applications
  15. Inkjet printed acrylate-urethane modified poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) flexible conductive films
  16. Cu(II) complexes using acylhydrazones or cyclen for biocidal antifouling coatings
  17. Randomly cross-linked amphiphilic copolymer networks of n-butyl acrylate and N,N-dimethylacrylamide: synthesis and characterization
  18. Roles of electrostatics and intermolecular electronic motions in the structural and spectroscopic features of hydrogen- and halogen-bonded systems
  19. The accurate assessment of the chemical speciation of complex systems through multi-technique approaches
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