Electrochemical Power Sources: Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications
Hydrogen Production by Water Electrolysis
- 1st Edition - October 25, 2021
- 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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Request a sales quoteElectrochemical 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
- Cover Image
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 The importance of water electrolysis for our future energy system
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Motivation and key drivers for hydrogen in the future energy system
- 1.3 Hydrogen in global energy future scenarios
- 1.4 Water electrolysis in a net-zero future
- 1.5 Summary and outlook to 2030
- Abbreviations, terminology, units and conversions
- References
- Chapter 2 Fundamentals of water electrolysis
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 The water electrolysis cell
- 2.3 Thermodynamics
- 2.4 Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
- 2.5 Cell efficiencies
- 2.6 Conclusions
- Glossary
- References
- Chapter 3 Thermochemical hydrogen processes
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Metal oxide water splitting cycles
- 3.3 Copper–chlorine process
- 3.4 Sulfur-based process
- 3.5 Conclusions and outlook
- References
- Chapter 4 The history of water electrolysis from its beginnings to the present
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 First developments
- 4.3 Preindustrial time up to about 1900
- 4.4 Alkaline water electrolysis in the 20th century
- 4.5 History of polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolysis
- 4.6 History of high-temperature steam electrolysis
- 4.7 Recent past with focus on new markets for renewables energies
- References
- Chapter 5 Alkaline electrolysis—status and prospects
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 5.1 Brief history of water electrolysis
- 5.2 Physical and chemical principles of electrolysis
- 5.3 Principle of operation of an alkaline electrolyzer
- 5.4 Technical concepts of electrolysis—status and prospects
- 5.5 Materials
- 5.6 Degradation effects in alkaline electrolyzers
- 5.7 Anion exchange membrane electrolysis
- 5.8 Description of technical plants
- 5.9 Alkaline electrolysis—future prospects
- References
- Chapter 6 PEM water electrolysis
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 6.1 General principle and cell layout
- 6.2 Cell and stack materials
- 6.3 Performance on cell and system level
- 6.4 Degradation mechanisms and lifetime
- 6.5 Electrolyte
- 6.6 System aspects and operational experience
- 6.7 System configuration and design
- 6.8 Modeling of polymer electrolyte membrane or proton exchange membrane electrolyzers
- 6.9 Material level
- 6.10 Cell level
- 6.11 Stack and system level
- 6.12 Cost reduction potential of polymer electrolyte membrane or proton exchange membrane electrolyzers
- 6.13 Cost breakdown
- 6.14 Main actors and highlights of recent years
- 6.15 Outlook and new concepts
- References
- Chapter 7 High temperature steam electrolysis
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 7.1 Introduction and general principle
- 7.2 Architecture of solid oxide cells
- 7.3 Cell materials
- 7.4 Stack components and designs
- 7.5 Cell performance
- 7.6 Stack performance
- 7.7 Structural analysis of cells and stacks
- 7.8 High temperature steam electrolyzer system
- 7.9 From cell to system cost analysis
- 7.10 Summary and outlook on future development
- References
- Chapter 8 Chlor–alkali electrolysis
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Brief history of the chlor–alkali industry
- 8.3 Overview of chlor–alkali technologies
- 8.4 Materials and electrochemistry of a membrane cell
- 8.5 System configuration of membrane cell
- 8.6 Overview of the chlor–alkali industry with membrane cells
- 8.7 Future outlook and a new cathode concept
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 9 Seawater electrolysis
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Seawater electrolysis
- 9.3 Chlorine-free seawater electrolysis for hydrogen production
- 9.4 Summary
- References
- Chapter 10 Economic considerations for hydrogen production with a focus on polymer electrolyte membrane electrolysis
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Background
- 10.3 Hydrogen markets
- 10.4 Hydrogen production cost economic considerations
- 10.5 Basic hydrogen economics (100 level)
- 10.6 Hydrogen economics (300 level)
- 10.7 Advanced hydrogen economics (500 level)
- 10.8 Assumptions and knowledge gaps
- 10.9 Summary
- Funding sources
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 11 Regenerative fuel cells
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Regenerative fuel cells based on proton exchange membranes technology
- 11.3 Other unitized regenerative fuel cell systems
- 11.4 Applications
- 11.5 Outline
- References
- Chapter 12 New electrolyzer principles: decoupled water splitting
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 12.1 Introductions
- 12.2 Electrolytic schemes for decoupled water splitting
- 12.3 Electrochemical–chemical cycles for decoupled water splitting
- 12.4 Decoupled photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic water splitting
- 12.5 Summary
- Acknowledgment
- Competing interests
- References
- Chapter 13 Hydrogen storage
- Abstract
- Chapter Outline
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Physical storage
- 13.3 Adsorption storage
- 13.4 Chemical hydrogen storage
- 13.5 Comparison of different storage technologies
- 13.6 Large-scale and underground hydrogen storage
- 13.7 Storage for mobile applications
- 13.8 Summary
- 13.9 Suggestions for further reading
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 512
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 25, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128194249
- eBook ISBN: 9780128194256
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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