电解醇制氢

发展了利用甲醇直接电解制氢这种经济的制氢方法, 实验结果表明电解甲醇制氢能够极大地降低电能消耗. 此方法的新颖之处在于方法简单和成本低. 将直接甲醇燃料电池膜电极作为电解装置, 可以达到任何规模的要求. 如果将这种电解装置与太阳能电池联用, 可非常经济地制氢及氢气储存, 或直接向燃料电池或其它化学工程装置供氢.

Hydrogen Production by Alcohol Electrolysis

An economical method to produce hydrogen by direct electrolysis of methanol is developed. It is demonstrated that the hydrogen produced by the electrolysis of methanol can considerably reduce the consumption of electricity. The novelty of this technique is the inherent simplicity and the substantially lowered cost. Using these modified proton exchange membrane fuel cell membrane electrode assembly (PEMFC-MEA) as an electrolyzer, any scale requirements can be easily achieved. The combination of this electrolyzer concept with the concept of solar cells would economically produce hydrogen for storage and subsequent use in, or for in situ use in, fuel cells and chemical engineering applications.