Hydrogen production from crude oil using microwave-initiated catalytic technology
<p>The current target of limiting global warming to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels is recognised as a demanding task. Should renewable technologies, for example, wind and solar, be not able to decarbonise the energy industry sufficiently in the near future, other approaches are needed to gen...
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| description | <p>The current target of limiting global warming to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels is recognised as a demanding task. Should renewable technologies, for example, wind and solar, be not able to decarbonise the energy industry sufficiently in the near future, other approaches are needed to generate energy without the emission massive amounts of CO2.</p>
<p>Hydrogen as an energy vector or fuel of the future has many advantageous properties compared to the current fuels. At the present, hydrogen production relies on fossil fuels and this trend will continue in the foreseeable future. As a result, hydrogen plants are and will remain a major source of CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. Decarbonisation is rapidly becoming a pressing but attractive challenge for worldwide fossil fuel utilization.</p>
<p>Here, we present an application of this new approach to the deep-dehydrogenation of Saudi Arabian light crude oil (LCO) - a liquid petroleum that has a low density and flows freely-. Hydrogen from fossil LCO - without significant CO2 production - is realized through microwave-initiated catalysis on activated-carbon-supported inexpensive Fe catalysts. Further optimisation can make the new process potentially competitive with current H2 production technologies, typically involving the steam reforming of methane, which invariably involves the release of significant amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere.</p>
<p>This environmentally - acceptable approach - to clean hydrogen production directly from fossil fuels and having near - to - zero CO2 production can make this new process potentially competitive with the current hydrogen production technologies, particularly through the portal of a carbon tax on energy producers. It, therefore, ushers in a new era …. The decarbonization of fossil fuels.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:38aa5cb3-5bd5-4357-b514-6240b48ae5fd2023-03-14T09:49:08ZHydrogen production from crude oil using microwave-initiated catalytic technologyThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:38aa5cb3-5bd5-4357-b514-6240b48ae5fdThe decarbonisation of fossil fuelEnglishHyrax Deposit2022Aldrees, SAClarke, SJ<p>The current target of limiting global warming to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels is recognised as a demanding task. Should renewable technologies, for example, wind and solar, be not able to decarbonise the energy industry sufficiently in the near future, other approaches are needed to generate energy without the emission massive amounts of CO2.</p> <p>Hydrogen as an energy vector or fuel of the future has many advantageous properties compared to the current fuels. At the present, hydrogen production relies on fossil fuels and this trend will continue in the foreseeable future. As a result, hydrogen plants are and will remain a major source of CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. Decarbonisation is rapidly becoming a pressing but attractive challenge for worldwide fossil fuel utilization.</p> <p>Here, we present an application of this new approach to the deep-dehydrogenation of Saudi Arabian light crude oil (LCO) - a liquid petroleum that has a low density and flows freely-. Hydrogen from fossil LCO - without significant CO2 production - is realized through microwave-initiated catalysis on activated-carbon-supported inexpensive Fe catalysts. Further optimisation can make the new process potentially competitive with current H2 production technologies, typically involving the steam reforming of methane, which invariably involves the release of significant amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere.</p> <p>This environmentally - acceptable approach - to clean hydrogen production directly from fossil fuels and having near - to - zero CO2 production can make this new process potentially competitive with the current hydrogen production technologies, particularly through the portal of a carbon tax on energy producers. It, therefore, ushers in a new era …. The decarbonization of fossil fuels.</p> |
| spellingShingle | The decarbonisation of fossil fuel Aldrees, SA Hydrogen production from crude oil using microwave-initiated catalytic technology |
| title | Hydrogen production from crude oil using microwave-initiated catalytic technology |
| title_full | Hydrogen production from crude oil using microwave-initiated catalytic technology |
| title_fullStr | Hydrogen production from crude oil using microwave-initiated catalytic technology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hydrogen production from crude oil using microwave-initiated catalytic technology |
| title_short | Hydrogen production from crude oil using microwave-initiated catalytic technology |
| title_sort | hydrogen production from crude oil using microwave initiated catalytic technology |
| topic | The decarbonisation of fossil fuel |
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