Development of new materials and approaches to photocatalytic systems

Conference · Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1998

OSTI ID:305598

Linkous, C A; Slattery, D K ^[1]

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1. Florida Solar Energy Center, Cocoa, FL (United States)

This work describes the authors efforts in developing a dual bed photocatalytic system for water-splitting to make H{sub 2}. Several potential improvements were investigated: the use of carbonate ion in facilitating the O{sub 2} evolution process, the use of NiO{sub x} as a substitute for Ir on TiO{sub 2}, the use of WO{sub 3} as a substitute for TiO{sub 2}, and a study of various classes of organic pigments for photocatalytic application. They have also generated some prototype designs for future dual photocatalyst systems that should enable higher efficiencies.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 305598
• Report Number(s): NREL/CP-570-25315-Vol.1; CONF-980440-Vol.1; ON: DE98007507; TRN: IM9906%%278
• Resource Relation: Conference: US DOE hydrogen program technical review meeting, Alexandria, VA (United States), 28-30 Apr 1998; Other Information: PBD: Aug 1998; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 1998 U.S. DOE Hydrogen Program Review: Volume 1; PB: 425 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

08 HYDROGEN FUEL
14 SOLAR ENERGY
HYDROGEN PRODUCTION
PHOTOLYSIS
WATER
CATALYSTS
TITANIUM OXIDES
NICKEL OXIDES
TUNGSTEN OXIDES
PIGMENTS
CATALYTIC EFFECTS
MATERIALS TESTING
QUANTUM EFFICIENCY
HYDROGEN GENERATORS