Electrochemical Power Sources: Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications
Hydrogen Production by Water Electrolysis
- 1st Edition - October 25, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Tom Smolinka, Jürgen Garche
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 4 2 4 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 4 2 5 - 6
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Electrochemical Power Sources: Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications: Hydrogen Production by Water Electrolysis offers a comprehensive overview about different hydrogen production technologies, including their technical features, development stage, recent advances, and technical and economic issues of system integration. Allied processes such as regenerative fuel cells and sea water electrolysis are also covered. For many years hydrogen production by water electrolysis was of minor importance, but research and development in the field has increased significantly in recent years, and a comprehensive overview is missing. This book bridges this gap and provides a general reference to the topic.
Hydrogen production by water electrolysis is the main technology to integrate high shares of electricity from renewable energy sources and balance out the supply and demand match in the energy system. Different electrochemical approaches exist to produce hydrogen from RES (Renewable Energy Sources).
Hydrogen production by water electrolysis is the main technology to integrate high shares of electricity from renewable energy sources and balance out the supply and demand match in the energy system. Different electrochemical approaches exist to produce hydrogen from RES (Renewable Energy Sources).
- Covers the fundamentals of hydrogen production by water electrolysis
- Reviews all relevant technologies comprehensively
- Outlines important technical and economic issues of system integration
- Includes commercial examples and demonstrates electrolyzer projects
Academia (students/researchers, lecturers and professors) at university and other technical colleges; electrochemists, chemists, chemical engineers, electrical and mechanical engineers; developers and manufacturers of water electrolysis components and systems
1. The importance of water electrolysis for our future energy system
How many GWs do we need in the future
Scope until 2050 including 2030
Literature review
ReMoD-D studies from Fraunhofer ISE should be included
2. Basics of water electrolysis
General principle of water electrolysis
System boundaries
Thermodynamics for both HT and NT water electrolysis in one chapter!!
Kinetic losses of AEL, PEMEL and HTEL
Comparison of efficiencies for HTEL and NTEL
3. Comparison with other hydrogen production processes
Steam reforming as current reference process but based on fossil fuels
Thermolysis (focus: thermochemical cycle as CSP with sulfur-iodine cycle)
Photobiological water splitting (e.g. in an algae bioreactor)
Photocatalytic water splitting
Biomass gasification
Biocatalysed electrolysis
Fermentative hydrogen production
4. Historical outline of water electrolysis
Early developments in the 19th century
Industrial deployment in the first half of the 20th century
North America (USA and Canada)
Asia (Japan and China)
Europe (South Europe with Italy and Switzerland and North Europe with Belgium and Norway
East Europe (Russia and East Germany)
5. Alkaline water electrolysis (AWE)
General principle: half-cell equations
General cell layout
Materials on cell level
Performance data on cell level and system level
Degradation mechanism and life time
System configuration
Highlights of recent years
Main activities (international industrial player)
Outlook of further and new concept
6. PEM water electrolysis (PEMWE)
7. High-temperature steam electrolysis (SOSE)
8. Chlor-alkali electrolysis
Thermodynamics
Kinetic losses
Main application
Short historical survey
9. Seawater electrolysis
10. Economics of water electrolysis
Investment costs
hydrogen production costs
Typical business models for water electrolysis
Deployment strategies for current and future market models
11. Regenerative FCs
separated and unified systems
12. Selected projects for system integration
one or two demo project per technology (e.g. power to gas)
AWE: 2 MW in Falkenhagen / Germany
PEMWE: 2 MW in Ontario / Canada
SOSE: t.b.d.
13. Hydrogen storage
All technologies to complement the book and the topics
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 25, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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Tom Smolinka
Tom Smolinka is the Head of Department for “Chemical Energy Storage” at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany. Since 2000, he has been working in the field of hydrogen technologies (fuel cells, electrolysis, solar hydrogen production and redox flow batteries).
Affiliations and expertise
Head of Department for Chemical Energy Storage, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, GermanyJG
Jürgen Garche
Jürgen Garche, graduated in chemistry at the Dresden University of Technology (DTU) in Germany in 1967. He was awarded his PhD in theoretical electrochemistry in 1970 and his habilitation in applied electrochemistry in 1980 from the same university. He worked at the DTU in the Electrochemical Power Sources Group for many years in different projects, mainly related to conventional batteries, before he moved 1991 to the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) in Ulm, where he was, until 2004, the Head of the Electrochemical Energy Storage and Energy Conversion Division.
He was Professor of Electrochemistry at Ulm University and Guest Professor at Shandong University – China, 2005, Sapienca University Roma - Italy, 2009, 2013, 2016, and 2023, TUM-CREATE – Singapore, 2014, 2015, 2016- 2016, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics - China, 2016, CNR Institute for Advanced Energy Technologies, Messina - Italy, 2019. After he retired from the ZSW he founded in 2004 the consulting firm Fuel Cell and Battery Consulting (FCBAT). Since 2015 he is senior professor at Ulm University. He has published more than 300 papers, 10 patents, and 11 books, among others as editor-in-chief of the first edition of Encyclopedia of Electrochemical Power Sources. He is listed in “World’s most Influential Scientific Minds” by Thomas Reuters (2014) and in the book “Profiles of 93 Influential Electrochemists” (2015).
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Professor, Ulm University, Ulm, GermanyRead Electrochemical Power Sources: Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications on ScienceDirect