Progress in Hydrogen Production via Sonolysis Processes

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).

• 1. Hydrogen production technologies: An overview2. Sonolysis: basic principles and application3. Water sonolysis and hydrogen production: experimental results4. The sonochemical production of hydrogen: Where, when and how5. Hydrogen sono-production and number density of active bubbles6. Sono-hybrid processes for hydrogen production7. Microscopic analysis of the influencing factors on hydrogen sono-production8. Transfer phenomenon and reactions heat effect on hydogen sono-production9. Saturation gases effects on hydrogen sono-production10. Relationship between the bubble energy and hydrogen production11. Hydogen production from the sonolysis of water/alcohol mixtures​​​​​12. Current challenges and future perspectives of ultrasonic technology for hydrogen production