Advanced pathways for hydrogen production: a collective view from a technical experts meeting

Katherine J. Chou; Yaset Acevedo; Peter Agbo; Alicia Bayon; Alexander S. Beliaev; Haluk Beyenal; Trevor Croft; Amgad Elgowainy; Daniel V. Esposito; Christoph Falter; David S. Ginley; Sophia Haussener; Shu Hu; Erik Koepf; Dhananjay Kumar; Alon Lidor; Bruce E. Logan; Peter Loutzenhiser; Anurag S. Mandalika; PinChing Maness; Gerald J. Meyer; Graham J. Nathan; Ruggero Rossi; Ellen B. Stechel; Eric R. Sundstrom; Emily Warren; Lynn M. Wendt; CX Xiang; Anthony H. McDaniel; Frances A. Houle

doi:10.1039/D5EE04503G

Advanced pathways for hydrogen production: a collective view from a technical experts meeting

Katherine J. Chou,*^a Yaset Acevedo,

^b Peter Agbo,

^c Alicia Bayon,

^d Alexander S. Beliaev,^e Haluk Beyenal,

^f Trevor Croft,^a Amgad Elgowainy,

^g Daniel V. Esposito,

^h Christoph Falter,ⁱ David S. Ginley,^j Sophia Haussener,

^k Shu Hu,

^lm Erik Koepf,ⁿ Dhananjay Kumar,^o Alon Lidor,

^p Bruce E. Logan,^q Peter Loutzenhiser,^r Anurag S. Mandalika,

^s PinChing Maness,^a Gerald J. Meyer,^t Graham J. Nathan,^u Ruggero Rossi,

^v Ellen B. Stechel,

^wx Eric R. Sundstrom,

^y Emily Warren,

^j Lynn M. Wendt,

^z CX Xiang,

^aa Anthony H. McDaniel

*^ab and Frances A. Houle

*^c

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^a Biosciences Center, National Laboratory of the Rockies, Golden, CO 80401, USA
E-mail: katherine.chou@nlr.gov, amcdani1000@gmail.com

^b Strategic Analysis, Inc., 4075 Wilson Blvd, Suite 200, Arlington, VA 22203, USA

^c Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
E-mail: fahoule@lbl.gov

^d Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica (ICP), CSIC, Calle de Marie Curie, 2, Madrid, Spain

^e Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA

^f Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA

^g Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA

^h Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA

ⁱ Synhelion AG, Dufourstrasse 101, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland

^j Materials, Chemical, and Computational Science Directorate, National Laboratory of the Rockies, Golden, CO 80401, USA

^k Laboratory of Renewable Energy Science, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

^l Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

^m Energy Sciences Institute, West Haven, CT 06516, USA

ⁿ DuPont Silicon Valley Technology Center, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA

^o Department of Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA

^p Energy Conversion and Storage Systems Center, National Laboratory of the Rockies, Golden, CO 80401, USA

^q Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

^r George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0405, USA

^s Center for Energy Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA

^t Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

^u School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

^v Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA

^w School of Molecular Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA

^x ASU LightWorks®, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA

^y Advanced Biofuel and Bioproducts Process Development Unit, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA

^z Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID 83415, USA

^aa Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

^ab Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94550, USA

Abstract

Hydrogen is an essential fuel and feedstock that can be produced in multiple ways to meet requirements for technological sectors that include energy storage, transportation, petroleum refining, and ammonia synthesis. To consider the future state of hydrogen manufacturing, a team of experts has assembled and examined three emerging hydrogen production technologies – photoelectrochemical, biological, and thermochemical. Each of these emerging technologies holds significant long-term potential for cost reduction while lowering industrial emissions associated with conventional methods of hydrogen manufacture (e.g., steam methane reforming) by using sunlight and renewable resources as primary sources of energy and feedstock, respectively. All three are currently at low technology readiness levels, however their applications, cost reduction opportunities and performance improvement pathways are under active development. In this work, opportunities and outlook for research that can directly advance the technologies are discussed.

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