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Decentralized and direct solar hydrogen production: Towards a hydrogen economy in MENA region

Abstract

Hydrogen has certainly some advantages in spite of its high cost and low efficiency when compared to other energy vectors. Solar energy is an abundant, clean and renewable source of energy, currently competing with fossil fuel for water heating without subsidy. Photo-electrochemical, thermo-chemicals and photo-biological processes for hydrogen production processes have been demonstrated. These decentralised hydrogen production processes using directly solar energy do not require expensive hydrogen infrastructure for packaging and delivery in the short and medium terms. MENA region could certainly be considered a key area for a new start to a global deployment of hydrogen economy.
Publication Date:
Sep 15, 2010
Product Type:
Conference
Report Number:
WEC-2010-107
Resource Relation:
Conference: 21st World Energy Congress (WEC) 2010, Montreal, Quebec (Canada), 12-16 Sep 2010; Other Information: Conference sponsored by the World Energy Council. Conference theme 2, Availability -- What is the right energy mix for long term stability?; Issue 2.5, Renewable and alternative energies in the global energy mix
Subject:
08 HYDROGEN; 14 SOLAR ENERGY; MIDDLE EAST; AFRICA; SOLAR ENERGY; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; BIOPHOTOLYSIS; PHOTOELECTROLYSIS
OSTI ID:
21397664
Research Organizations:
National Research Council (Canada); Sonatrach (Algeria); Ministere de l'enseignement Superieur (Algeria)
Country of Origin:
WEC
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
TRN: XX10OA107
Availability:
Full WEC 2010 conference proceedings are available in print from Curran Associates Inc., www.proceedings.com. Published in 5 volumes, 4,650 pages.; Commercial reproduction prohibited; OSTI as DE21397664
Submitting Site:
ETDE
Size:
16 pages
Announcement Date:
Feb 24, 2011

Citation Formats

Bensebaa, Farid, Khalfallah, Mohamed, and Ouchene, Majid. Decentralized and direct solar hydrogen production: Towards a hydrogen economy in MENA region. WEC: N. p., 2010. Web.
Bensebaa, Farid, Khalfallah, Mohamed, & Ouchene, Majid. Decentralized and direct solar hydrogen production: Towards a hydrogen economy in MENA region. WEC.
Bensebaa, Farid, Khalfallah, Mohamed, and Ouchene, Majid. 2010. "Decentralized and direct solar hydrogen production: Towards a hydrogen economy in MENA region." WEC.
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title = {Decentralized and direct solar hydrogen production: Towards a hydrogen economy in MENA region}
author = {Bensebaa, Farid, Khalfallah, Mohamed, and Ouchene, Majid}
abstractNote = {Hydrogen has certainly some advantages in spite of its high cost and low efficiency when compared to other energy vectors. Solar energy is an abundant, clean and renewable source of energy, currently competing with fossil fuel for water heating without subsidy. Photo-electrochemical, thermo-chemicals and photo-biological processes for hydrogen production processes have been demonstrated. These decentralised hydrogen production processes using directly solar energy do not require expensive hydrogen infrastructure for packaging and delivery in the short and medium terms. MENA region could certainly be considered a key area for a new start to a global deployment of hydrogen economy.}
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