Design and development of efficient catalysts for hydrogen production

Abstract

Huge dependency on the limited resources of fossil fuels and adverse effect on the environment due to its consumption enforces the scientific society to search of sustainable and renewable energy sources to cater the increasing global energy demand. Hydrogen is now a well-known clean source of energy. However, the production and storage of hydrogen using renewable resources are challenging due to the physical property of hydrogen. This thesis comprises the six chapter in which we discussed about the importance of hydrogen as well as design and development of efficient catalytic systems for the production of hydrogen gas from various liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs) such as hydrazine, methanol, formaldehyde and other alcohols. The first chapter of this thesis is about the brief discussion and literature survey on the importance of hydrogen, its utility, storage and production. Further, subsequent chapters 2-5 describe the synthesis and development of catalytic systems for hydrogen production from several LOHCs under varying reaction conditions. The prime objective of the research work presented in this thesis is to develop highly active and efficient catalytic system for hydrogen production from various liquid organic hydrogen carriers and to study the mechanistic pathways for the hydrogen production using various instrumentation techniques. The last chapter concludes the important outcome of the research work present in this these, and briefly describes the outlook and future scope of the present research work. The content of each chapter included in thesis are briefly summarized here