Hydrogen production from water electrolysis: current status and future trends
Fecha
2012Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
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Artículo / Artikulua
Versión
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10.1109/JPROC.2011.2156750
Resumen
This paper reviews water electrolysis technologies for hydrogen production and also surveys the state of the art of water electrolysis integration with renewable energies. First, attention is paid to the thermodynamic and electrochemical processes to better understand how electrolysis cells work and how they can be combined to build big electrolysis modules. The electrolysis process and the chara ...
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This paper reviews water electrolysis technologies for hydrogen production and also surveys the state of the art of water electrolysis integration with renewable energies. First, attention is paid to the thermodynamic and electrochemical processes to better understand how electrolysis cells work and how they can be combined to build big electrolysis modules. The electrolysis process and the characteristics, advantages, drawbacks, and challenges of the three main existing electrolysis technologies, namely alkaline, polymer electrolyte membrane, and solid oxide electrolyte, are then discussed. Current manufacturers and the main features of commercially available electrolyzers are extensively reviewed. Finally, the possible configurations allowing the integration of water electrolysis units with renewable energy sources in both autonomous and grid-connected systems are presented and some relevant demonstration projects are commented. [--]
Materias
Electric grid integration,
Electrolyzer,
Hydrogen,
Renewable energies,
Steam electrolysis,
Water electrolysis
Editor
IEEE
Publicado en
Proceedings of the IEEE, 100(2), 2012
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa eta Elektronikoa Saila /
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Química Aplicada /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Kimika Aplikatua Saila
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Entidades Financiadoras
This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under Grants DPI2010-21671-C02-01 and ENE2009-14522-C05-03