Compendium of Hydrogen Energy

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.

• Part One - Introduction to hydrogen1. Introduction to hydrogen and its propertiesVelu Subramani, BP Products North America, Inc, USA 2. Introduction to hydrogen productionJosé Luis García Fierro, CSIC, Spain3. Economics of hydrogen productionPaul Dodds, University College London, UKPart Two - Conventional hydrogen production methods 4. Hydrogen production by steam reforming of natural gas and other non-renewable feedstocks Lucia Garcia, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain5. Hydrogen production by reforming of bio-alcoholsFrancesco Frusteri, ITAE-CNR, Italy6. Hydrogen production by gasification of biomass and opportunity fuelsPaul A. Charpentier, The University of Western Ontario, CanadaPart Three - Production of hydrogen through electrolysis7. Hydrogen production using high pressure electrolyzersRichard Hanke-Rauschenbach, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Germany8. Hydrogen production by high temperature steam electrolysisJulie Mougin, CEA, Feance9. Hydrogen production by polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolysis Pierre Millet, University of Paris, FrancePart Four - Emerging methods for the production of hydrogen10. Hydrogen production using photobiological methodsSuleyman I. Allakhverdiev, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia11. Hydrogen production via thermochemical water-splitting Martin Roeb, Christian Sattler and Christos Agrafiotis, DLR, Germany12. Hydrogen production via the Kværner process and plasma reformingDae-Hoon Lee, Korea Institute of Machinery & MaterialsPart Five - Hydrogen purification and low-carbon hydrogen production13. Hydrogen purification methods: reduction and oxidation reactions, metal hydrides and adsorptionEsther Acha, Engineering Faculty of Bilbao (UPV/EHU), Spain14. Polymeric membranes for the purification of hydrogen John Jansen15. Single-stage hydrogen production and separation from fossil fuels using micro and macro-membrane reactorsAngelo Basile16. Chemical and calcium looping reforming for hydrogen production and carbon dioxide captureBen Anthony, Cranfield University17. Low-carbon production of hydrogen from fossil fuelsNazim Muradov, University of Central Florida, USA