Solar hydrogen production and its development in China

L.J. Guo, L. Zhao, D.W. Jing, Y.J. Lu, H.H. Yang, B.F. Bai, X.M. Zhang, L.J. Ma and X.M. Wu

Energy, 2009, vol. 34, issue 9, 1073-1090

Abstract: Because of the needs of sustainable development of the mankind society and natural environment building a renewable energy system is one of the most critical issues that today's society must address. In the new energy system there is a requirement for a renewable fuel to replace current energy carrier. Hydrogen is an ideal secondary energy. Using solar energy to produce hydrogen in large scale can solve the problems of sustainability, environmental emissions, and energy security and become the focus of the international society in the area of energy science and technology. It has also been set as an important research direction by many international hydrogen programs. The Ministry of Science and Technology of China supported and launched a project of National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) – the Basic Research of Mass Hydrogen Production using Solar Energy in 2003 for R&D in the areas of solar hydrogen production. The current status of solar hydrogen production research is reviewed and some significant results achieved in the project are reported in this paper. The trends of development and the future research directions in the field of solar hydrogen production in China are also briefly discussed.

Keywords: Solar energy; Biomass; Hydrogen production; Supercritical water gasification; Photocatalytic water splitting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2009.03.012

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