COLLOQUIUM

Monday, March 14, 2005

"Experimental Results in the Use of High Temperature Electrolysis for the Production of Hydrogen"

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High-temperature nuclear reactors have the potential for substantially increasing the efficiency of hydrogen production from water, with no consumption of fossil fuels, no production of greenhouse gases, and no other forms of air pollution. A high-temperature advanced nuclear reactor coupled with a high-efficiency high-temperature electrolyzer could achieve a competitive thermal-to-hydrogen conversion efficiency of 45 to 55%. An experimental research program is being conducted by the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Ceramatec, Inc., to test the high-temperature, electrolytic production of hydrogen from steam using a solid oxide cell.