Hydrogen Production By Solar Beam

Presenter Information

Tokio Ohta, Professor, Hydrogen Energy Research Laboratories, Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Ohka, Minami-ku, Yokohama, 233 Japan
T. N. Veziroglu, Director, Clean Energy Research Institute, School of Engineering and Environmental Design, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124

Start Date

4-1976 8:00 AM

Description

Various methods of water-splitting with use of solar energy are reviewed and compared to each other. Direct thermal method has the highest efficiency, but the difficulty is the heat-resisting materials. Thermochemical method is promising if the corrosion-resisting materials are found. Electrolytic method is traditional, but the hybrid system combined with thermochemical and/or photochemical reactions are valuable and believed to be actualizing in the earist stage. Photolysis and biochemical methods are most environmental, but they are of low efficiency at present stage. Actually working system of so-called Yokohama Mark5 is introduced, too.

Comments

Solar Energy

Session Chairman: Howard Harrenstien, Director, Florida Solar Energy Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida,

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