Hydrogen Energy

Challenges and Prospects

: D A J Rand (Author), R M Dell (Author)
ISBN: 978-0-85404-597-6
Copyright: 2007
Format: Hardback
Extent: 338
Price: £45.00

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Synopsis

A transition to renewable and low-carbon forms of energy is being widely debated as a means of securing a sustainable future for mankind. Hydrogen Energy Challenges and Prospects, a new book from the authors of Clean Energy, considers the prospects for hydrogen as a universal energy vector and fuel for the decades to come.

With no emissions other than water arising from its combustion, the potential virtues of harnessing and utilizing hydrogen correlate with recent growing concern over the security of conventional fuel supply and global climate change. This book sets out to analyze the technical situation in an objective fashion, free from the constraints of political and industrial loyalties. Areas covered include pathways to hydrogen production, prospects for carbon capture and storage, options for hydrogen storage on vehicles, fuel cells, and fuel cell vehicles.

Each of the many facets of hydrogen energy is discussed and the challenges to be faced are addressed. The authors acknowledge it is not possible to reach a simple, unequivocal conclusion regarding overall prospects, since the international energy scene is so complex, and predicting long-term futures is so notoriously difficult. Nevertheless, the reader will be given compelling pointers indicative of the way in which events might develop.

This topical book is ideal for undergraduates, postgraduates and academics with an interest in hydrogen energy. Government agencies and energy professionals will also find this content to be a useful reference source.

Reviews

Rand and Dell go into scientific and technical matters in exhaustive detail, thus making their book at once a fascinating read, a sourcebook of knowledge and a dossier of engineering and scientific challenges. The litany of chapter headings is a good place to get an overview of this book. If you are looking for a challenge and hoping to see hydrogen occupy a serious role in energy generation within your lifetime, make sure you read this book and think carefully about its messages
Source : Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE Focus), Number 149, April 2008, 26-27 (Ian Rae)

If you are looking for a challenge and hoping to see hydrogen occupy a serious role in energy generation within your lifetime, make sure you read this book. Rand and Dell go into scientific and technical matters in exhaustive detail, thus making their book at once a fascinating read, a sourcebook of knowledge and a dossier of engineering and scientific challenges.
Source : Chemistry in Australia, May 2008, 29-30 (Ian D Rae)