Hydrogen holds great promise as a greener form of fuel because it is a zero-emission fuel when burned with oxygen. The problem is that it's costly to produce and the way that it's currently produced creates greenhouse gas emissions.
New research out of the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University offers a solution. The team - PhD student Nader El-Taweel, postdoctoral visiting scholar Hadi Khani and professor and principal investigator Hany Farag from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science - has proposed a new model to lower the price of hydrogen production and increase profitability.
This work will be of great interest to a variety of stakeholders: environmentalists, government policy-makers, investors and consumers. The impact could be far reaching.
Farag underscores the importance of this research: "What we're doing is presenting the engineering tools that can be utilized by investors, government and stakeholders as to how you can optimally design the infrastructure to produce and deliver economical, green hydrogen."
This research was funded by the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada in partnership with Hydrogenics Inc. The results were published in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (2018).
