Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Life cycle net energy assessment of sustainable H2 production and hydrogenation of chemicals in a coupled photoelectrochemical device

  • Xinyi Zhang,
  • Michael Schwarze,
  • Reinhard Schomäcker,
  • Roel van de Krol,
  • Fatwa F. Abdi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36574-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Integrating green hydrogen production with the generation of valuable chemicals has the potential to increase the competitiveness of the system. Here, the authors quantitatively evaluate the energetic benefit of coupling hydrogen production with the hydrogenation of feedstocks in a photoelectrochemical device.