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Electrolytic Processes

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Hydrogen and Fuel Cell

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Securing a reliable, economically-viable and environmentally-sound energy supply is one of the great challenges of the twenty-first century. In the Energy Concept, the German government has formulated guidelines for an environmentally-sound, reliable—and affordable energy supply and, for the first time, mapped a road to the age of renewable energy. The Concept is about designing and implementing a long-term overall strategy for the period up to the year 2050 [BMWi, BMU (Energiekonzept für eine umweltschonende, zuverlässige und bezahlbare Energieversorgung. BMWi, BMU, 2010)]. In this scope, hydrogen will play a considerable role as a storage medium and an energy carrier for the transport sector. This chapter concerns the basic physico-chemical principles and the state-of-the-art of the various electrolytic processes for hydrogen production.

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Pitschak, B., Mergel, J. (2016). Electrolytic Processes. In: Töpler, J., Lehmann, J. (eds) Hydrogen and Fuel Cell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44972-1_11

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