Open AccessTechnology comparison for green hydrogen production
Author(s) -
Ilham Ourya,
Souad Abderafi
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/1008/1/012007
Subject(s) - hydrogen production , greenhouse gas , environmental science , fossil fuel , steam reforming , biomass (ecology) , renewable energy , raw material , hydrogen , hydrogen fuel , waste management , hydrogen technologies , water splitting , natural gas , methane , hydrogen economy , chemistry , engineering , ecology , biochemistry , electrical engineering , organic chemistry , photocatalysis , catalysis , biology
Because of greenhouse gas emissions generated by fossil fuels, it has become essential to find non-polluting alternatives. Hydrogen is generally produced from the steam methane reforming (SMR) process which generates a lot of greenhouse gases. However, there are many other processes to produce hydrogen that are cleaner and should be of interest. This study aims at comparing different existing technologies to produce hydrogen in a clean and non-polluting way, in particular biological and thermochemical processes from biomass and water splitting processes. Their comparison is made by analyzing several parameters such as the type of raw materials, energy sources, efficiency, waste generation, CO2 emissions and, hydrogen production rate. Among the biological processes to produce hydrogen from biomass, dark fermentation seems to be the best due to its high production efficiency. Thermochemical processes are also interesting because of their maturity, but they generate a lot of waste such as tar and ashes. Water splitting processes coupled with renewable energy have the advantage of being zero greenhouse gas generating. The electrolysis is the best from the point of view of production efficiency which reaches 80%.