Hydrogen Fuel for Future Mobility: Challenges and Future Aspects

Santanu Kumar Dash, Suprava Chakraborty, Michele Roccotelli and Umesh Kumar Sahu
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Santanu Kumar Dash: TIFAC-CORE, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore 632014, Tamil Nadu, India
Suprava Chakraborty: TIFAC-CORE, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore 632014, Tamil Nadu, India
Michele Roccotelli: Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy
Umesh Kumar Sahu: Department of Mechatronics, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576104, Karnataka, India

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 14, 1-22

Abstract: Nowadays, the combustion of fossil fuels for transportation has a major negative impact on the environment. All nations are concerned with environmental safety and the regulation of pollution, motivating researchers across the world to find an alternate transportation fuel. The transition of the transportation sector towards sustainability for environmental safety can be achieved by the manifestation and commercialization of clean hydrogen fuel. Hydrogen fuel for sustainable mobility has its own effectiveness in terms of its generation and refueling processes. As the fuel requirement of vehicles cannot be anticipated because it depends on its utilization, choosing hydrogen refueling and onboard generation can be a point of major concern. This review article describes the present status of hydrogen fuel utilization with a particular focus on the transportation industry. The advantages of onboard hydrogen generation and refueling hydrogen for internal combustion are discussed. In terms of performance, affordability, and lifetime, onboard hydrogen-generating subsystems must compete with what automobile manufacturers and consumers have seen in modern vehicles to date. In internal combustion engines, hydrogen has various benefits in terms of combustive properties, but it needs a careful engine design to avoid anomalous combustion, which is a major difficulty with hydrogen engines. Automobile makers and buyers will not invest in fuel cell technology until the technologies that make up the various components of a fuel cell automobile have advanced to acceptable levels of cost, performance, reliability, durability, and safety. Above all, a substantial advancement in the fuel cell stack is required.

Keywords: hydrogen fuel; sustainability; green fuel; sustainable transportation; future mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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