(116c) Intensified Hydrogen Production

Because of the broad use of fossil fuels for energy generation, the world is experiencing serious environmental issues. As a result, lowering carbon emissions has become a pressing concern. In this context, hydrogen is receiving worldwide attention because of having huge potential such as becoming the leading energy carrier and its mobile/stationary power generating applications, to be part a solution of the aforementioned problem. A significant reduction on the production cost of hydrogen is required to reach the level of widespread use because this is the key factor for the further development and growth of the hydrogen economy.

Developing new technologies or enhancing current processes based on sustainability standards and alternative fuels such as biomass that can substitute for crude oil is crucial to producing clean and cheap power by eliminating the economic and energy penalties. However, the development of sustainable industrial processes is the chemical sector's challenging global goal. The integration of sustainability into process design contributes to the achievement of this target by eliminating or minimizing negative effects.

To develop sustainable chemical, pharmaceutical, and bio-based processes for the future, increased productivity-capacity-safety-flexibility, decreased energy usage-waste-operational costs and simplified process are the main motivation objectives for retrofitting processes. The field of Process Intensification (PI) has a huge potential to satisfy many of the objectives listed above. PI is a rapidly developing field in research and industry that has a huge potential to meet the increasing demands for sustainable production in the chemical process industry. PI has already created many innovations in the chemical process industry with a significant process improvement that is directed toward substantially smaller, cleaner, more energy-efficient technology. Furthermore, PI aims at safer and more sustainable technological developments.

Thus, the main goal of this study is to identify the role of the intensification technologies for hydrogen production processes. The study will consider the following points:

1. Definition of PI and its principles.
2. Listing the existed PI technologies and equipment for intensified hydrogen production.
3. Integration of PI into hydrogen production processes.
4. Implementation of PI technologies for hydrogen production (Current status).
5. Projected status of PI for hydrogen production.