Progress in Hydrogen Production via Sonolysis Processes

Progress in Hydrogen Production via Sonolysis Processes highlights recent developments in numerical and experimental hydrogen production by ultrasound (sonolysis). The book serves as a comprehensive and quick reference with a high-level historical review of the technology, detailed technical descriptions, and the latest experimental and numerical achievements. It reviews hydrogen production technologies, sonolysis, and ultrasound-assisted processes and examines numerical acoustic cavitation (bubble sonochemistry) for hydrogen sono-production. Other sections cover cutting-edge computational research and its benefits for understanding multiple issues related to the use of ultrasound as an innovative clean technology for hydrogen production.

Issues covered range from the mechanism of sonochemical production, the factors and phenomena that influence it, intensification techniques, and the active bubble population (number and size) in sonicated water.

• Presents the latest progress in the use of sonochemistry for the production of hydrogen
• Explores advancements in numerical and experimental studies used for hydrogen production by sonolysis
• Describes and discusses emerging, futuristic sono-hybrid technologies for hydrogen production

Slimane Merouani is a professor of process engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Constantine 3 - Salah Boubnider, in Algeria. His research interests focus on innovative technologies for water and wastewater treatment, sonochemistry, and advanced oxidation processes (AOPs). He has over 95 peer-reviewed international publications and 20 book chapters, with publications cited over 2,257 times. Dr. Merouani has appeared in the 2022 list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists published by Stanford University, and is an associate editor of the journal Scientific African , edited by Elsevier, and guest editor of the special issue “Ultrasound, Sonochemistry and Innovative Separation Technologies Applied to Chemical and Environmental Engineering” in the journal Molecules, edited by MDPI. He has supervised numerous research projects focusing on water treatment by sonochemistry and AOPs.

Oualid Hamdaoui is a full professor of chemical engineering at King Saud University, in Saudi Arabia. His main research interests are focused on sonochemistry, acoustic cavitation, advanced oxidation processes, separation processes, desalination, and water treatment. He has held several academic appointments as coordinator of Master and Doctorate programs in Chemical and Environmental Process Engineering. He has received many awards including the Thomson Reuters Award in Engineering, Scopus Award (Elsevier) in Chemical Engineering, Francophonie Award for young researchers, option Sciences and Medicine, ranked first on the list of suitable candidates to the title of full professor (technology section) of the twenty-sixth (26th) session of the National University Commission, Abdul-Hameed Shoman Award for Young Arab Researchers in Engineering Sciences, Jordan and the best scientific publication award of The National Agency for the Development of University Research.

Aissa Dehane is a doctor of Chemical engineering at Department of Chemical Engineering, Salah Boubnider Constantine 3 University (Algeria). He received his PhD in 2021 form Badji Mokhtar-Annaba University (Algeria). His research interest is sonochemistry and advanced oxidation processes (AOPs). He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers and 5 book chapters, with an h-index of 06 (Scopus). Many of his publications (~10) are in the journal Ultrasonics Sonochemistry (Elsevier) and the Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier), which are ranked first in acoustics and chemical engineering disciplines, respectively. In addition, Aissa Dehane has an experience of nine years in the LNG industry after having accomplished a one-year training in the Algerian Institute of Petroleum (IAP).