Hydrogen Production from Biomass using Nuclear Fusion Energy

Author

Kimura, Hiroki ; Takeuchi, Yuto ; Yamamoto, Yasushi ; Konishi, Satoshi

Author_Institution

Inst. of Adv. Energy, Kyoto Univ.

fYear

2005

fDate

Sept. 2005

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Hydrogen deserves of a future energy medium in terms of global environmental issues and fossil resource constraints. This study intends to examine the feasibility of hydrogen production process by nuclear fusion heat. This process potentially provides hydrogen at significantly better efficiency than other proposed reaction such as electrolysis from renewable source with little CO₂ emission, and is formulated as (C₆H₁₀O₅)n+mH₂Orarr6nH ₂+6nCO-n814 kJ. The experimental result at 1273 K showed complete gasification of cellulose, and hydrogen was obtained at the conversion efficiency of respectively 40 percent of material and 50% of heat. A concept of a reactor and fusion-hydrogen plant is presented

Keywords

bioenergy conversion; fusion reactor design; hydrogen economy; nuclear power; organic compounds; reaction kinetics; 6nCO; 6nH₂; C₆H₁₀O₅)n+mH₂O reaction; CO₂ emission; cellulose; complete gasification; electrolysis; fossil resource constraints; fusion-hydrogen plant design; global environmental issues; hydrogen production process; nuclear fusion heat; renewable source; Biomass; Carbon dioxide; Electrochemical processes; Fusion power generation; Fusion reactors; Hydrogen; Infrared heating; Production; Temperature; Water heating; biomass; component; fusion energy; hydrogen;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fusion Engineering 2005, Twenty-First IEEE/NPS Symposium on

Conference_Location

Knoxville, TN

Print_ISBN

0-4244-0150-X

Electronic_ISBN

0-4244-0150-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUSION.2005.252960

Filename

4018994