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IIT Delhi Scientists Generates Hydrogen Fuel From Water Efficiently!

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A research group of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Delhi) has developed a pilot plant to get hydrogen fuel from water at low cost. The project has been undertaken under the supervision of Prof Sreedevi Upadhyayula, Prof Ashok N Bhaskarwar and Prof Anupam Shukla from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Prof Saswata Bhattacharya, Department of Physics. The project was funded by Oil and gas Corporation Energy Centre (OEC).

As a part of the research the IIT Delhi team has successfully split water by a process referred to as Sulphur-Iodine (SI) thermochemical hydrogen cycle to get low-cost, clean hydrogen fuel for industrial consumption. Hydrogen gas, a viable choice as a renewable substitute for fossil fuels, can help mitigate emissions.

One of the key challenges faced by the IIT Delhi researchers was to style an appropriate catalyst for the energy intensive, corrosive step of vitriol conversion to Sulphur-dioxide and oxygen. The in-house catalyst meets these criteria and is now patented, and a process supported these is being developed and demonstrated within the Institute.

“The researchers have successfully split water by a process referred to as Sulphur-Iodine (SI) thermochemical hydrogen cycle to get low-cost, clean hydrogen fuel for industrial consumption. Hydrogen gas, a viable choice as a renewable substitute for fossil fuels, can help mitigate emissions,” IIT Delhi said.

Professor Upadhyayula speaking about the achievement said that there’s an imminent got to switch to renewable energy sources like water.

“The thermo-chemical hydrogen cycle for splitting water offers a practical means of generating hydrogen as a fuel and also oxygen as a byproduct. Hence, it are often considered favourably for the commercial production of hydrogen on an outsized scale, within the near future,” she said.

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