Renewable hydrogen energy and sustainable processes" - HYdrogen POwer - THeoretical and Engineering Solutions - International Symposium

The "Green Deal" that most of the countries all of around the world are planning for the near future represents the biggest challenge and opportunity of this century to change the approach of producing energy for promoting ever more the sustainable development, the environmental friendly processes and renewable sources exploitation. Hydrogen will be part of this revolution and it is expected that it will represent the green energy carrier of the future. Currently, the role and the perspectives of the hydrogen utilization as energy vector may be resumed by the concepts of the so-called "hydrogen economy", which is driving the creation of new energy infrastructures, able to exploit renewable feedstocks instead of the derived of the fossil fuels. The aforementioned scopes seem to be particularly ambitious, especially for countries in which the utilization of derived fossil fuels is quite impressive. Nevertheless, the transition from a fossil fuel-based to a sustainable and green society is already started and it will allow safer and cleaner industrial processes and improve the quality of the human life as well. This special issue aims to collect selected scientific contributions presented in the framework of Hypothesis XVI conference, particularly dealing with the promotion of the following topics: hydrogen production from renewable energy sources, residual biomass and electrolysis, life cycle assessment and sustainability of hydrogen energy, membrane engineering applied to hydrogen generation and purification processes, and other emerging applications useful for the sustainable energy production, particularly devoted to promoting high operational efficiency and simplicity, low energy requirements and low environmental impact.