Where Industrial Hydrogen Comes From
In short: How industrial hydrogen is made by steam methane reforming of natural gas, by splitting water with electricity, and as a by-product of chlor-alkali plants, and why these routes differ in the carbon dioxide they produce.
A 2:13 short film in the series “How Things Work”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: U.S. Department of Energy, “Hydrogen Production: Natural Gas Reforming”; U.S. Department of Energy, “Hydrogen Production: Electrolysis”; Nature Communications (Springer Nature), “Ultra-fast green hydrogen production from municipal wastewater by an integrated forward osmosis-alkaline water electrolysis system - Nature Communications”; OSTI.GOV (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information); report by Argonne National Laboratory, “Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of By-product Hydrogen from Chlor-Alkali Plants (Technical Report) | OSTI.GOV”; U.S. Department of Energy (energy.gov), “Hydrogen Production Processes”.
Sources used in this film
- U.S. Department of Energy — Hydrogen Production: Natural Gas Reforming · View →
- U.S. Department of Energy — Hydrogen Production: Electrolysis · View →
- Nature Communications (Springer Nature) — Ultra-fast green hydrogen production from municipal wastewater by an integrated forward osmosis-alkaline water electrolysis system - Nature Communications · View →
- OSTI.GOV (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information); report by Argonne National Laboratory — Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of By-product Hydrogen from Chlor-Alkali Plants (Technical Report) | OSTI.GOV · View →
- U.S. Department of Energy (energy.gov) — Hydrogen Production Processes · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Hydrogen Production: Natural Gas Reforming
- Also: U.S. Department of Energy: Hydrogen Production: Electrolysis
- Also: Nature Communications (Springer Nature): Ultra-fast green hydrogen production from municipal wastewater by an integrated forward osmosis-alkaline water electrolysis system - Nature Communications
- Also: OSTI.GOV (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information); report by Argonne National Laborato: Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of By-product Hydrogen from Chlor-Alkali Plants (Technical Report) | OSTI.GOV
- Also: www.energy.gov — Hydrogen Production Processes
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