Scientists at KU Leuven's Center for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis in Leuven, Belgium have managed to produce a solar hydrogen panel, which is able to directly convert no less than 15 per cent of sunlight into hydrogen gas, which according to them is a world record.[1][2][3] According to IEEE Spectrum in 2019 this is a giant leap from 0.1% efficiency 10 years earlier.[3] On 19 February 2021, exactly 2 years after their original reveal of the panel, KU Leuven launched the Solhyd Project and website.[4]
Solar hydrogen panels seem very promising for the greenhydrogen economy as this method of producing hydrogen fuel emits no CO2, unlike steam reforming from natural gas and then utilizing the water-gas shift reaction to produce hydrogen. As of 2015 the majority of H 2 worldwide was produced via steam methane reforming, at prices down to $1 / kg H 2.[5] In 2019 the IEA reported that electrolysis of water, another green way to produce hydrogen, accounts for less than 0.1% of global hydrogen production.[6]
^ ab Heremans, Gino; Trompoukis, Christos (2017). "Vapor-fed solar hydrogen production exceeding 15% efficiency using earth abundant catalysts and anion exchange membrane". Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 1 (10): 2061–2065. doi:10.1039/C7SE00373K. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
^ "Green Energy Breakthrough Thanks to KU Leuven Scientists". www.kuleuven.be. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
^ ab Gallucci, Maria (2019-03-13). "Solar Panel Splits Water to Produce Hydrogen". IEEE Spectrum. IEEE. Retrieved 2020-11-09. A research team in Belgium says its prototype panel can produce 250 liters of hydrogen gas per day
^ "The Solhyd project is launched!". solhyd.org. KU Leuven. 2021-02-19. Retrieved 2021-03-19. The idea is simple: get water vapor from the air and energy from the sun, which enables you to make green hydrogen anywhere in the world.
^ Rongé, Jan; Bosserez, Tom (2015). "Solar Hydrogen Reaching Maturity". Oil & Gas Science and Technology. 70 (5): 863–876. doi:10.2516/ogst/2014061. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
Official website of the Solhyd Project by KU Leuven
A news article 'Green energy breakthrough thanks to KU Leuven scientists' at stories.kuleuven.be (2019-10-02)
'Sustainable production of hydrogen gas' video by KU Leuven in Dutch with English subtitling on YouTube (2019-03-25)
An interview 'Looking past the hype: KU Leuven researchers shed more light on their hydrogen panel' with Johan Martens and Tom Bosserez at nieuws.kuleuven.be (2019-03-25)
'Surface Chemistry and Catalysis: Characterisation and Application Team (COK-KAT)' in the organizational chart of kuleuven.be
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