Advances in fuel cell technologies for hydrogen production Aarti Maurya, Amit Kumar Chaurasia Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology for Mobile Applications, 2023 The increasing rate of industrialization and urbanization increases waste and wastewater generation along with global energy demand. That makes the necessity of the current waste treatment and process technologies to be upgraded into the sustainable or green energy generation such as hydrogen production from the waste materials and hydrogen fuel cells-based technologies. Fuel cells are electrochemical devices that use hydrogen as fuel cells for electricity or heat generation. The fuel cells-based technologies are in the infant stage and need to be explored for the vital utilization of hydrogen for the various energy related applications. Stationary application of fuel cells or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles related technologies are hotspot research areas in the 21st century. In this chapter, the authors summarize the recent development of the hydrogen production from waste, current state of the art in hydrogen fuel cells, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and their economic and sustainability benefits. It also includes the key challenges of these technologies for commercial applications.
Effect of pre-treatment on mesophilic anaerobic co-digestion of fruit, food and vegetable waste Amit Kumar Chaurasia, Puneet Siwach, Ravi Shankar, Prasenjit Mondal Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 2023 Pre-treatment of fruit, food and vegetable waste materials could enhance the biogas generation and waste stabilization in a shorter time. Effect of alkaline, hydrothermal, thermal and ultrasonication pre-treatment of fruit, food and vegetable waste (FFVW) on the anaerobic co-digestion (ACD) was assessed in terms of total solid (TS), volatile solid (VS) reduction and biogas/methane production. The mesophilic anaerobic co-digestion of pre-treated FFVW with cow dung was performed in a laboratory scale 1L batch digester for 30 days at 40 ± 2 °C temperature. Performance of ultrasonication process is found more economical and efficient pre-treatment over other pre-treatment processes such as thermal, alkaline and hydrothermal processes. Obtained results show that ultrasonication pre-treatment process enhances the biogas and biomethane production by 29.4% and 18.4%, respectively. During ultrasonication pre-treatment, 16.89% TS and 19.44% VS removal are noted. While 106.81 ml biogas/gVS and 29.92 ml CH4/gVS are generated during ACD of ultrasonicated FFVW. In addition, considerable enhancement in biogas production was noted with alkaline pre-treatment but it is least economical. Economic analysis shows that the cost for the production of biogas through anaerobic co-digestion from untreated, ultrasonication, alkaline, hydrothermal and thermal pre-treated FFVW are 2.45, 3.12, 19.33, 5.52 and 22.72 USDs/ton FFVW, respectively. Energy study also indicates the lesser energy consumption and higher biogas production in case of ultrasonication pre-treatment.
Technologies for the clean and renewable energy production for the sustainable environment Amit Kumar Chaurasia, Swati Mohapatra, Ravi Shankar, Lokendra Singh Thakur Clean Technologies and Sustainable Development in Civil Engineering, 2022 Energy generation or green energy generation from waste materials is a necessity for the sustainable development of our society. In the last two decades, there is substantial scientific and technological development in waste to energy generation research. This chapter discussed the various aspects of the waste to energy generations technologies such as the hydrogen/energy generation from the waste materials. The chapter enlisted the advanced in the technology's development of waste to energy generation. It emphasized the most sustainable way to treat waste and their current state of the art in the waste to energy generation. This chapter also includes the biological, biochemical, and various fuel cells technologies for waste to energy generation. This chapter summarized the various state of the art of hydrogen production technologies from the waste materials or wastewater and emphasized the applications of nanotechnology in the cathode development for the bio-electrochemical system.
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