title: Generating hydrogen gas from methane with carbon captured as pure spheroidal nanomaterials.
abstract: Energy production by using hydrogen gas as a feedstock is considered to be one of the keys to creating clean energy, with the proviso that the gas is generated in a sustainable way with no emissions. A simple, self-sustaining process generating hydrogen gas from methane using inexpensive stainless steel wire-mesh catalysts at elevated temperatures (800 °C) is reported. A theoretical analysis of the production of electricity by this process revealed peak chain energy efficiencies up to 21% (emission free) when using a percentage of the produced hydrogen (approximately 40% of purified yield) as the heat source. In addition, a practical method has been developed to purify the carbon byproduct, affording essentially pure highly graphitic spheroidal carbon for advanced materials applications.
authors: Centre for Strategic Nano-Fabrication, School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA-6009, Australia.
authors: Andrew
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authors: Cornejo
authors: Weike
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authors: Zhang
authors: Lizhen
authors: L
authors: Gao
authors: Rahi R
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authors: Varsani
authors: Martin
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authors: Saunders
authors: K Swaminathan
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authors: Iyer
authors: Colin L
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authors: Raston
authors: Hui Tong
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authors: Chua