28/05/2012
Hydrogen from Paper Mill waste water with Nanotechnology
Hyper Solar Inc in USA, the developer of a technology to produce renewable hydrogen and natural gas using water and solar power, announced that initial testing of wastewater samples from a paper mill proved to be highly compatible with its innovative process that mimics photosynthesis to extract hydrogen from water.
Unlike conventional, expensive hydrogen technology that splits water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen, it is developing a low-cost nanotechnology approach. By simply engineering the reaction kinetics toward hydrogen generation with the help of wastewater, the nanoparticles function as one-way machines that detoxify wastewater and produce clean water and pure hydrogen in the presence of sunlight. No other energy source is required, resulting in an extremely economical and commercially viable approach for the production of zero-carbon, renewable hydrogen.