Hydrogen Production from Biomass

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editor is inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of “Hydrogen Production from Biomass”. The world’s energy system needs to be adapted into a more sustainable one, based on a diverse mix of renewable energy sources, among them biomass, which enhance power generation efficiency, proposing new energy vectors to improve effectiveness of renewables and addressing the pressing challenges of security of supply and climate change, whilst increasing the competitiveness of industries. In this context, technologies for hydrogen production from CO2-neutral precursors need to be addressed in terms of reliability, efficiency, cost, and environmental sustainability. The hydrogen production expected cost of about 2–10 €/kg (about 17 €/GJ, depending on biomass cost) will allow producing a fuel from renewables that are less expensive than that obtained from “traditional” energy sources. This can have a huge impact on the global fuels and energy markets.

Within the European UNIfHY project (2001–2016), we realized a continuous hydrogen production plant, PEFC grade, from biomass at industrial scale via steam gasification, WGS, and PSA, but different, even better routes are being analyzed and tested at present. Thus, this Special Issue will deal with all the hydrogen production from biomass systems (thermochemical, biochemical, etc.), related cleaning and conditioning systems (thermochemical, biochemical, electrochemical, etc.), and hydrogen from biomass use (e.g., via ICE, GT, FC) in order to try to encompass the last modeling, experimental, and demonstration activities on the area.

Prof. Dr. Enrico Bocci
Guest Editor

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