Solar Hydrogen Production Research Status and Prospect

Abstract:

The status of solar hydrogen production, solar hydrogen production from water electrolysis, solar photochemical hydrogen production, biological hydrogen production, solar thermal decomposition of water hydrogen production and other hydrogen production methods are presented in this paper. Then the key technologies of various hydrogen production are investigated in detail. Analysing the domestic and foreign research progress, the state-of-the art solar hydrogen production can be got to know in this paper. On the basis of solar hydrogen production, some prospects are put forward.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 983)
• Pages: 265-269
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.983.265
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: De Zhi Wang*, Fu Zhou Zhao, Cai Li Zhu
• Keywords: Challenge, Prospect, Research Status, Solar Hydrogen Production

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