Energy has a vital prospect for sustainable modern daily life and industrial activities. Parallel to economic and population growth, the demand for energy production on a global scale as well as on a country basis is rapidly increasing. With current production technologies, energy is obtained by using fossil fuels such as hydrocarbon-containing oil, natural gas and coal. In the case of carbon-based technologies, CO2, NOx, SOx, particulate matter, etc., uncontrolled release of by-products into the atmosphere leads to a wide range of environmental problems. Compared to fossil fuels, H2is an energy carrier that has gained much attention in recent years as a potential solution to problems of air pollution, climate change, energy security, and high fuel prices and H2is a more efficient and clean energy source because of its high energy content and its ability to be easily converted to electricity.
Over the past several decades, a significant number of researchers working in different disciplines have helped bring this field to its current level of maturity. This special issue of “Waste to Hydrogen” in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy highlights recent advances of our understanding on hydrogen production from waste streams for the development of a hydrogen energy society in the near future.
This special issue welcomes submissions focusing on the latest developments in hydrogen production from waste biomass covering the following topics. In particular, new methods or strategies that directly address hydrogen energy research questions or are motivated by real-world waste to hydrogen examples are strongly desired.
- Fermentative biohydrogen production
- Hydrogen production via microalgae
- Hydrogen production via bioelectrochemical systems
- Scaling-up and commercialization of biohydrogen production
- Technological and economic viability of biological hydrogen production
- Biohydrogen applications in fuel cell technology
- Analysis and modeling of biohydrogen production
- Thermal processes in hydrogen production
- Hydrogen-producing microorganisms with improved characteristics