Significance of Hydrogen as Economic and Environmentally Friendly Fuel
The major demand of energy in today’s world is fulfilled by the fossil fuels which are not renewable in nature and can no longer be used once exhausted. In the beginning of the 21st century, the limitation of the fossil fuels, continually growing energy demand, and growing impact of green-house gas...
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| description | The major demand of energy in today’s world is fulfilled by the fossil fuels which are not renewable in nature and can no longer be used once exhausted. In the beginning of the 21st century, the limitation of the fossil fuels, continually growing energy demand, and growing impact of green-house gas emissions on the environment were identified as the major challenges with current energy infrastructure all over the world. The energy obtained from fossil fuel is cheap due to its established infrastructure; however, these possess serious issues, as mentioned above, and cause bad environmental impact. Therefore, renewable energy resources are looked to as contenders which may fulfil most energy requirements. Among them, hydrogen is considered as the most environmentally friendly fuel. Hydrogen is clean, sustainable fuel and it has promise as a future energy carrier. It also has the ability to substitute the present energy infrastructure which is based on fossil fuel. This is seen and projected as a solution for the above-mentioned problems including rise in global temperature and environmental degradation. Environmental and economic aspects are the important factors to be considered to establish hydrogen infrastructure. This article describes the various aspects of hydrogen including production, storage, and applications with a focus on fuel cell based electric vehicles. Their environmental as well as economic aspects are also discussed herein. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0e06292e2e054cf78cbc667e71f8b9112023-11-22T20:47:02ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732021-11-011421738910.3390/en14217389Significance of Hydrogen as Economic and Environmentally Friendly FuelShashi Sharma0Shivani Agarwal1Ankur Jain2Department of Physics, JECRC University, Jaipur 303905, IndiaDepartment of Physics, JECRC University, Jaipur 303905, IndiaNatural Science Centre for Basic Research & Development, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8530, JapanThe major demand of energy in today’s world is fulfilled by the fossil fuels which are not renewable in nature and can no longer be used once exhausted. In the beginning of the 21st century, the limitation of the fossil fuels, continually growing energy demand, and growing impact of green-house gas emissions on the environment were identified as the major challenges with current energy infrastructure all over the world. The energy obtained from fossil fuel is cheap due to its established infrastructure; however, these possess serious issues, as mentioned above, and cause bad environmental impact. Therefore, renewable energy resources are looked to as contenders which may fulfil most energy requirements. Among them, hydrogen is considered as the most environmentally friendly fuel. Hydrogen is clean, sustainable fuel and it has promise as a future energy carrier. It also has the ability to substitute the present energy infrastructure which is based on fossil fuel. This is seen and projected as a solution for the above-mentioned problems including rise in global temperature and environmental degradation. Environmental and economic aspects are the important factors to be considered to establish hydrogen infrastructure. This article describes the various aspects of hydrogen including production, storage, and applications with a focus on fuel cell based electric vehicles. Their environmental as well as economic aspects are also discussed herein.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/21/7389hydrogen energyhydrogen productionsustainable fuelenvironmentenergy carrier |
| spellingShingle | Shashi Sharma Shivani Agarwal Ankur Jain Significance of Hydrogen as Economic and Environmentally Friendly Fuel Energies hydrogen energy hydrogen production sustainable fuel environment energy carrier |
| title | Significance of Hydrogen as Economic and Environmentally Friendly Fuel |
| title_full | Significance of Hydrogen as Economic and Environmentally Friendly Fuel |
| title_fullStr | Significance of Hydrogen as Economic and Environmentally Friendly Fuel |
| title_full_unstemmed | Significance of Hydrogen as Economic and Environmentally Friendly Fuel |
| title_short | Significance of Hydrogen as Economic and Environmentally Friendly Fuel |
| title_sort | significance of hydrogen as economic and environmentally friendly fuel |
| topic | hydrogen energy hydrogen production sustainable fuel environment energy carrier |
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