Harvesting Hydrogen from Farm Waste
May 18th, 2008 -
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The National Research Council of Canada’s Biotechnology Research Institute has begun research and development of a process that will extract hydrogen from organic waste materials like fermentable feedstock and manure. The materials are processed to hydrogen by dark and photofermentation. The goal is to “come up with biosystems that could be grouped into a multiple-stage process to capture almost all the hydrogen from the primary feedstock”. One dairy farm in Ontario is already producing power from manure using an anaerobic digester.
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May 18th, 2008
Is there an advantage from deriving hydrogen rather than another biogas from this waste? Do you get more usable energy, for example?
The problems of containing and shipping hydrogen would have to be overridden by some advantage. Otherwise make something like methane and make life easier.
June 30th, 2008
What is the lowest price of Hydrogen Fuel cell and what is its capacity
ie. rating
like Rated Voltage
VA
Max Out put
Life
Whether the this Hydrogen Fuel cell can be re-used or not?
If so what is the cost?
Where these cells are available in the market
Provide list of suppliers
July 22nd, 2009
We have a chicken and egg conundrum. which do we develop first? Hydrogen production or fuel cells?
It is too early in the development stage to worry too much about production costs of first generation hydrogen or fuel cells. That can come later.
I am very interested in using hydrogen production as a part of a whole, perhaps as a means of dehydrating wastes for less expensive pyrolysis.
Oxygen and CO2 are also valuable commodities that need to be captured for sale or further use.