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Special Issue "Chemical and Biochemical Technologies for Sustainable Green Fuels"

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "I3: Energy Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2023) | Viewed by 932

Special Issue Editors

Department of Chemical and Biotechnological Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R, Canada
Interests: Power-to-X; CO2 conversion technologies; low-carbon fuels; heterogenous catalysis; process integration; LCA/TEA
Department of Chemical and Biotechnological Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada
Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; turquoise and blue hydrogen; energy transition; economic and environmental models; gas-to-liquids; distillation
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Department of Chemical and Biotechnological Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada
Interests: intensification of chemical and pharmaceutical processes; energy efficiency; heterogeneous catalysis; process assisted by cold plasma; catalytic conversion

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The energy transition is a major global environmental issue that will require different types of technologies, especially those allowing the production of and use of sustainable green fuels with a moderate or low carbon intensity. This Special Issue aims to present the recent advances in the development of technologies for the production, use and distribution of sustainable green fuels related to process engineering, materials, applications, environmental and techno-economic assessments and policies and regulation.

Topics of interest:

  • Hydrogen production and utilization: hydrogen economy; different colours of hydrogen (green, blue, white, turquoise, pink); e-fuels; ammonia; hydrogen-derived fuels; fuel cells; LCA/TEA; materials; and related catalytic and noncatalytic-processes
  • The fuels scenario: biogas; biofuels; biorefineries; waste-to-energy; chemical, thermochemical, and biological processes for low-carbon fuels production; process engineering; materials; LCA/TEA; resources and feedstock; policies and regulation; and the scale-up of technologies
  • Materials for energy: batteries; supercapacitors; solar energy; solar fuel; electrocatalysis; characterization and synthesis; and theoretical studies

Dr. Bruna Rego de Vasconcelos
Dr. Federico Galli
Dr. Inès Esma Achouri
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • hydrogen
  • low-carbon fuels
  • process engineering
  • materials and catalysis
  • LCA/TEA
  • scale-up
  • policies and regulation

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15 pages, 2091 KiB  
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Controlling Parameters in the Efficiency of Hydrogen Production via Electrification with Multi-Phase Plasma Processing Technology
Energies 2023, 16(14), 5509; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16145509 - 20 Jul 2023
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A nanosecond pulsed non-equilibrium plasma reactor is used to crack hydrocarbons into hydrogen and lighter intermediates at atmospheric pressure and warm temperature. The effects of power, capacitance, breakdown voltage, pulsing frequency, energy per pulse, and carrier gas type are investigated for product generation. [...] Read more.
A nanosecond pulsed non-equilibrium plasma reactor is used to crack hydrocarbons into hydrogen and lighter intermediates at atmospheric pressure and warm temperature. The effects of power, capacitance, breakdown voltage, pulsing frequency, energy per pulse, and carrier gas type are investigated for product generation. Multiple gaseous products including hydrogen and hydrocarbons are calculated and compared at different conditions. A statistical analysis is performed on hydrogen yield for different experimental conditions to determine the significance of the studied parameters. Comparable hydrogen yields are produced when using methane (4 to 22 g-H2/kWh) as a carrier gas as compared to argon (7 to 14 g-H2/kWh). Although, notably, the methane carrier is more selective to hydrogen and sensitive to other operating parameters, the argon is not. Statistical analysis shows that plasma power, capacitance, and energy per pulse appear to influence hydrogen yield while pulsing frequency and breakdown voltage do not. A higher yield of hydrogen is achieved with low plasma power and a low energy per pulse, with a low capacitance for both cases of pure CH4 and pure Ar. The results show that low plasma power based on a low energy per pulse of <10 mJ is preferable for hydrogen production in a batch reactor. This CO2-free hydrogen production method produces hydrogen from fossil fuels at less than USD 2/kg in electricity. Full article
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