New perspectives in hydrogen production, separation and utilization

The main concept of the "Hydrogen Economy" includes the intent of representing an energy infrastructure useful to replace the world petroleum fuels exploitation. Indeed, hydrogen is a versatile compound that, a part from the current industrial applications (ammonia and methanol production), may be directly used as a fuel in combustion engines or in fuel cells to generate green power for both stationary and mobile applications. These potentialities are attracting special interests particularly in the countries in which the utilization of derived of fossil fuels is impressive. Furthermore, the "hydrogen economy" plays an important role as an alternative vision of the future energy infrastructure in solving the current issues related the climate change and environmental pollution caused by the harmful emissions of the derived of fossil fuels utilization. Hence, this book describes the perspectives of application for a number of alternative technologies including solar, membrane and membrane reactors (MRs), electrolysis, bio-reactors etc. in the framework of hydrogen generation, its utilization as a green fuel and the consequent future impact at industrial scale.