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Toward Economically Rational Hydrogen Production from Solar Energy: From Battery Versus Hydrogen to Battery × Hydrogen

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The use of renewable energy as a main primary energy source can be perceived as a common target of all the countries in the world to reach a sustainable society late in this century. Toward the sustainable goal, the photovoltaic and wind power generations are expected to play important roles in coming decades. To counter the intermittency of their power outputs, economically feasible energy storage measures are necessary. In this chapter, the storage technologies as key technologies for making intermittent renewable energies a main power generation option are discussed focusing on the battery and hydrogen energy systems. The rationality of hydrogen energy as a long-term storage measure is first discussed by a Fermi estimate formula proposed by Hasegawa. Then the rationality of integrating battery with hydrogen production from solar energy is discussed. A concrete example of the integrated system optimization is introduced to clearly show that the integration will lead to the realization of an economically viable hydrogen production from solar energy.

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Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank the fruitful discussion with Dr. Takuya Hasegawa (NISSAN Motor Co. Ltd.) and Dr. Takahide Haneda (Tokyo Gas Co. Ltd.). Part of the research is financially supported by MEXT Program for Integrated Materials Development.

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  1. Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Michihisa Koyama

  2. Research Initiative for Supra-Materials, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan

    Michihisa Koyama

  3. Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

    Michihisa Koyama

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  2. Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, USA

    Sajid Bashir

  3. Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, USA

    Jingbo Louise Liu

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Koyama, M. (2019). Toward Economically Rational Hydrogen Production from Solar Energy: From Battery Versus Hydrogen to Battery × Hydrogen. In: Atesin, T.A., Bashir, S., Liu, J.L. (eds) Nanostructured Materials for Next-Generation Energy Storage and Conversion. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-59594-7_16

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