Session: Renewable Hydrogen Production

This symposium will focus on fuel processing for applications that show potential to increase hydrogen production and utilization. Effective utilization of all fuels such as coal, petroleum-derived, natural gas, alcohols, and stranded energy resources such as wind and solar or thermal heat from nuclear, geothermal or solar, for select applications requires careful techno-economic analyses, technology development and system integration. Topics of interest will include, but are not limited to the following: • Catalytic reforming (POX, steam, dry, autothermal, decomposition) • Novel non-catalytic reforming technologies (e.g. plasma) • Hydrogen production from coal and/or renewable sources such as water splitting through electricity or thermal processes • Reactor design for fuel processors • Water gas shift, preferential oxidation, methanation • Fuel cleanup – desulfurization, tar cracking, etc. • Systems analysis/technology integration for fuel processors • Novel scenario and techno-economic analyses that demonstrate opportunities for increases hydrogen production to enhance that stability of the power grid through demand response and energy storage.