Solar Hydrogen Generation - Toward a Renewable Energy Future

Given the backdrop of intense interest and widespread discussion on the prospects of a hydrogen energy economy, this book aims to provide an authoritative and up-to-date scientific account of hydrogen generation using solar energy and renewable sources such as water. While the technological and economic aspects of solar hydrogen generation are evolving, the scientific principles underlying various solar-assisted water splitting schemes already have a firm footing. This book aims to expose a broad-based audience to these principles. This book spans the disciplines of solar energy conversion, electrochemistry, photochemistry, photoelectrochemistry, materials chemistry, device physics/engineering, and biology.

List of contents

Renewable Energy and the Hydrogen Economy.- The Solar Resource.- Electrolysis of Water.- A Solar Concentrator Pathway to Low-Cost Electrolytic Hydrogen.- Thermochemical and Thermal/Photo Hybrid Solar Water Splitting.- Molecular Approaches to Photochemical Splitting of Water.- Hydrogen Generation from Irradiated Semiconductor-Liquid Interfaces.- Photobiological Methods of Renewable Hydrogen Production.- Centralized Production of Hydrogen using a Coupled Water Electrolyzer-Solar Photovoltaic System.

Summary

Given the backdrop of intense interest and widespread discussion on the prospects of a hydrogen energy economy, this book aims to provide an authoritative and up-to-date scientific account of hydrogen generation using solar energy and renewable sources such as water. While the technological and economic aspects of solar hydrogen generation are evolving, the scientific principles underlying various solar-assisted water splitting schemes already have a firm footing. This book aims to expose a broad-based audience to these principles. This book spans the disciplines of solar energy conversion, electrochemistry, photochemistry, photoelectrochemistry, materials chemistry, device physics/engineering, and biology.

Product details

• Assisted by: Stuart Licht (Editor), Rober McConnell (Editor), Robert McConnell (Editor), Krishnan Rajeshwar (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2010
• EAN: 9781441924964
• ISBN: 978-1-4419-2496-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 237 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 516 g
• Illustrations: XX, 312 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering; B, engineering, Electrical Engineering, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Energy technology & engineering, electrochemistry, Renewable and Green Energy, Energy Policy, Materials science, Materials Science, general, Energy industries & utilities, Power electronics, Electrical Power Engineering, Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks, Renewable energy resources, Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology, Electrochemistry & magnetochemistry, Energy and state