In Washington DC, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) said it was recently selected as one of 16 teams to research enhanced production of geologic hydrogen by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program.
Led by Texas Tech University with partners from NREL, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Rio Tinto, and Lavoisier H2 Geoconsult, this project aims to stimulate hydrogen production from iron-rich mafic and ultramafic rocks via chemical, mechanical, and biological processes, said NREL.
The project will produce valuable scientific research to understand the opportunities this resource presents via a first-of-its-kind research grant on geologic hydrogen stimulation technologies.
“Natural hydrogen production is important because current methods for producing hydrogen are energy intensive, with hydrogen needing to be derived from other sources, like water or methane,” said Dayo Akindipe, an NREL research scientist in the Center for Energy Conversion and Storage Systems.
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Category: Research
