Hydrogen Production From Biomass Gasification is the Secret to a Sustainable Hydrogen Economy

Biomass gasification using organic materials (ideally waste materials which would otherwise go to land fills) is the best way to either directly produce hydrogen from the âsyngasâ it produces, or generate electrical power into the regional power grid, from which users can produce hydrogen in their houses, and factories. If society is to end up being hydrogen economy based it will have to be done in a sustainable manner without contributing to the production of greenhouse gases, and as a result to worldwide warming.

A couple of years ago the technical news press were full of the concept of a hydrogen economy. The concept was, and still is a sound one, specifically as far as the pressing need to minimize city contamination which in so many cities is reaching crisis point largely due to automobile emissions. The worst emissions are from motor vehicle exhausts and specifically harmful are the small soot particules from deisel automobiles.

What the early proponents of hydrogen powered cars did dislike is that although the cities would be much cleaner if all automobiles were hydrogen sustained and discharging just water, the production of the hydrogen (typically over night in the garage using electric power and water) would require inefficient use of electrical power. As most of our Product Reincarnation Technology electrical energy in all however a couple of countries is developed from carbanaceous (environment change inducing) fuels the idea of hydrogen powered transport would remain in threat of highlighting environment change. For this reason, one issue would have been fixed but just at the cost of another much bigger one.



However, as biomass gasification, carried out in properly, can be completely sustainable it does offer society the opportunity to have its cake and consume it. That is clean sustainable hydrogen for our city's cars and a clean hydrogen economy in general.

The concept of mainstream big scale industrial gasification innovation is that biomass is converted into a gaseous mixture of hydrogen, carbon monoxide gas, carbon dioxide, and other compounds by applying heat under pressure in the presence of steam and a regulated amount of oxygen (in a system called a gasifier). While doing so the molcules forming the biomass are broken apart chemically by the heat, steam, and oxygen to which they are subjected. This sets into movement chain reaction that produce a synthesis gas, or "syngas". This gas although it starts as a mix of mainly hydrogen, carbon monoxide gas, and co2, it can then be shifted through additional reactions to increase the hydrogen gas content. At the same time the operator can reduce the carbon substances and lastly the carbon dioxide can be scrubbed out and captured for long term storage underground to minimise and even minimize worldwide warming.