Title : Development of a prototype for generation and recycling of hydrogen from organic wastes in high yield
Abstract:
Today, biomass energy projects are recognized as important and viable sources of renewable alternate energy. Hydrogen, a storable, non-polluting, energetic, a renewable form of energy and abundantly found element in the universe assumes a paramount importance as it can be obtained from the biomass, biologically through a versatile and less energy intensive processes. It is worth mentioning that hydrogen has already been produced both photolytically and thermolytically but the reported processes have the disadvantages of either energy intensive or environment unfriendly. Fruits and vegetables will be collected from the nearby markets and processed anaerobically for conversion to biomass. The biomass will further be processed to produce the so-called bio-hydrogen. The hydrogen thus obtained will be stored in a metal hydride storage, a facility meant, among others, for efficient storage of hydrogen, and will be transferred to fuel cell for the generation of electricity. All these individual systems i.e. bioreactor, metal hydride storage reactor and a fuel cell will then be integrated into a single system. This integrated system after successful laboratory testing will then be considered for commercialization purposes. Pakistan with a vast agricultural land and a population of about 200 million has a great potential for the biological production of hydrogen from the biomass of fruits and vegetables. Huge amount of fruits and vegetables are wasted due to lack of proper waste disposal system, causing thereby nuisance for the human being. The proposal under consideration will solve to a large extent, if not in toto, both the energy as well as the environmental imbroglio that have gripped the whole world.
