Compendium of Hydrogen Energy: Hydrogen Production and Purification (Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1782423613 ISBN 13: 9781782423614

Publisher: Woodhead Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Compendium of Hydrogen Energy: Hydrogen Production and Purification, the first text in a four-volume series, focuses on the production of hydrogen. As many experts believe that the hydrogen economy will eventually replace the fossil fuel economy as our primary source of energy, the text provides a timely discussion on this interesting topic.

The text details the methods of hydrogen production using fossil fuels, also exploring sustainable extraction methods of hydrogen production from water and hydrogen purification processes.

• Provides a comprehensive understanding of the current methods used in the production of hydrogen
• Discusses the hydrogen economy and its potential to replace fossil fuels as our primary source of energy
• Details the methods of hydrogen production using fossil fuels, also exploring sustainable extraction methods of hydrogen production from water and hydrogen purification processes

About this title

About the Authors

Angelo Basile, a Chemical Engineer with a Ph.D. in Technical Physics, was a senior Researcher at the ITM-CNR as a responsible for the research related to both ultra-pure hydrogen production and CO2 capture using Pd-based Membrane Reactors. He is a reviewer for 165 int. journals, an editor/author of more than 50 scientific books and 140 chapters on international books on membrane science and technology; with various patens (7 Italian, 2 European, and 1 worldwide). He is a referee of 1more than 150 international scientific journals and a Member of the Editorial Board of more than 20 of them. Basile is also an associate editor of the: Int. J. Hydrogen Energy; Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Eng.; journal Frontiers in Membrane Science and Technology; and co-Editor-in-chief of the Int. J. Membrane Science & Technol.

Dr. Veziroglu, a native of Turkey, graduated from the City and Guilds College, the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, with degrees in Mechanical Engineering (A.C.G.I., B.Sc.), Advanced Studies in Engineering (D.I.C.) and Heat Transfer (Ph.D.).

In 1962 – after doing his military service in the Ordnance Section, serving in some Turkish government agencies and heading a private company – Dr. Veziroglu joined the University of Miami Engineering Faculty. In 1965, he became the Director of Graduate Studies and initiated the first Ph.D. Program in the School of Engineering and Architecture. He served as Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering 1971 through 1975, in 1973 established the Clean Energy Research Institute, and was the Associate Dean for Research 1975 through 1979. He took a three years Leave of Absence (2004 through 2007) and founded UNIDO-ICHET (United Nations Industrial Development Organization – International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies) in Istanbul, Turkey. On 15 May 2009, he attained the status of Professor Emeritus at the University of Miami.

Dr. Veziroglu organized the first major conference on Hydrogen Energy: The Hydrogen Economy Miami Energy (THEME) Conference, Miami Beach, 18-20 March 1974. At the opening of this conference, Dr. Veziroglu proposed the Hydrogen Energy System as a permanent solution for the depletion of the fossil fuels and the environmental problems caused by their utilization. Soon after, the International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE) was established, and Dr. Veziroglu was elected president. As President of IAHE, in 1976 he initiated the biennial World Hydrogen Energy Conferences (WHECs), and in 2005 the biennial World Hydrogen Technologies Conventions (WHTCs).

In 1976, Dr. Veziroglu started publication of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (IJHE) as its Founding Editor-in-Chief, in order to publish and disseminate Hydrogen Energy related research and development results from around the world. IJHE has continuously grew; now it publishes twenty-four issues a year. He has published some 350 papers and scientific reports, edited 160 volumes of books and proceedings, and has co-authored the book “Solar Hydrogen Energy: The Power to Save the Earth”.

Dr. Veziroglu has memberships in eighteen scientific organizations, has been elected to the Grade of Fellow in the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is the Founding President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy.

Dr. Veziroglu has been the recipient of several international awards. He was presented the Turkish Presidential Science Award in 1974, made an Honorary Professor in Xian Jiaotong University of China in 1981, awarded the I. V. Kurchatov Medal by the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy of U.S.S.R. in 1982, the Energy for Mankind Award by the Global Energy Society in 1986, and elected to the Argentinean Academy of Sciences in 1988. In 2000, he was nominated for Nobel Prize in Economics, for conceiving the Hydrogen Economy and striving towards its establishment.

From the Back Cover

Hydrogen is seen as a key possible alternative to fossil fuels as the most efficient and environmentally compatible energy carrier. As free hydrogen does not exist on earth in its pure form, its successful production, storage, transmission, conversion and application are essential for its implementation. The four volume Compendium of Hydrogen Energy explores these factors in detail, beginning in volume one with an in-depth review of hydrogen production.

Part One provides a strong introduction to hydrogen, looking at the key properties, production and economics. Part Two goes on to review conventional hydrogen production methods and industrial surplus hydrogen, covering topics such as steam reforming, coal gasification, gasification of biomass and opportunity fuels and the use of industrial surplus hydrogen. The production of hydrogen through electrolysis with high pressure electrolyzers, high temperature electrolyzers and proton exchange membrane electrolyzers are then explored in Part Three, before emerging methods are explored in Part Four. The book then concludes in Part Five by reviewing hydrogen purification.

Compendium of Hydrogen Energy Volume 1 – Hydrogen Production and Purification provides a standard reference work for academic researchers and postgraduate students working in the area of hydrogen production and the wider area of the hydrogen economy, and R&D managers in energy companies studying next generation fuels.

Velu Subramani is a research scientist at BP Products North America. Professor Angelo Basile is a senior researcher at the Institute of Membrane Technology (ITM) for the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy. T. Nejat Veziroğlu is the president of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy and former faculty member at the University of Miami.

Edition details

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782423613
• ISBN 13: 9781782423614
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 550
• Editor: Subramani Velu, Basile Angelo, Veziroglu T. Nejat