In Maryland, The American Bazaar reported that Satish Myneni, an Indian American professor of geosciences at Princeton University is getting funding through the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund for a research project to speed up natural hydrogen generation for clean energy.
Myneni’s team aims to study mineral-driven H2 generation and to test strategies to accelerate this process. They propose research in three areas, with the first focused on identifying reaction conditions and cascading pathways to achieve near 100% iron oxidation, which would lead to an order of magnitude increase in H2 generation.
The second project area will examine molecular-level processes that control macroscale kinetic and thermodynamic properties of H2-generating mineral reactions, according to the report.
Third, the researchers will investigate the conditions necessary for H2 generation with simultaneous carbon dioxide mineralization. Discovering how to couple and control these processes could make natural H2 production carbon-negative rather than simply carbon-neutral, the report added.
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