Review: a concept of white hydrogen as a source of energy; the function of oxygen carriers and geographic location

M. Amin*

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Abstract

The rise of industry is driving up global energy demand, and carbon footprint emissions have an enormous impact on the environment. The researcher is especially worried about the emissions of carbon dioxide brought on by growing industry. The minimization of carbon footprints can only possibly get rid of fossil fuel-based energy resources and start relying on only pure hydrogen (H2) production resources. H2 is to be considered one of the future generation energy sources. In order to mitigate the carbon footprints, experts are searching for the production of pure H2 from the natural resources. One of the existing examples of natural pure H2 production is the well that has twenty-four boreholes located in Bourakebougou, Mali. As the pure H2 production wells are not located in every country, the mechanism is not fully discovered. In this article, we will try to build a hypothesis for the production of “white hydrogen” based on existing knowledge. The mineralogy is composed of iron containing minerals such as present with different oxidation states like magnetite, hematite, pyrite, chalcopyrite and olivine minerals [(Mg, Fe)2SiO4]. The existing metals in the mineralogy act as oxygen carrier and the silicates oxides acting as a porous support. The rain water interacts with the olivine minerals which produce FeO, MgO. Countries including Australia, Canada, the USA, Italy, New Zealand, Russia, Brazil, and Paraguay have natural serpentine deposits. The porous nature of the serpentine and antigorite-containing dolomitic and sandstone reservoirs, which leads to a noticeable increase in H2 in the iron-rich area of the sandstone reservoirs.

Original languageEnglish
Article number102766
JournalInternational Journal of Energy and Water Resources
DOIs
StateAccepted/In press - 2024

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Iranian Society of Environmentalists (IRSEN) and Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University 2024.

Keywords

  • Energy demand
  • Natural resources
  • Serpentine deposits
  • White hydrogen

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Energy (miscellaneous)

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