Hydrogen
About 95 percent of commercial hydrogen is produced by steam reforming of natural gas and other hydrocarbons. Production of this grey hydrogen results in much CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions released into the atmosphere. At the opposite end of hydrogen’s sustainability spectrum is green hydrogen, which is produced by electrolysis of water using only renewable electricity. In between is blue hydrogen, in which emissions from grey hydrogen are captured and either sequestered or converted into useful chemicals. Other methods include pyrolysis of fossil fuels, and electrolysis of water using grid electricity or from a nuclear power plant. The sustainable production, storage and transport of hydrogen is a major focus at Stanford, as is analysis of the potential for a hydrogen economy.
Researchers in Hydrogen
- Inês Azevedo
- Sally Benson
- Adam Brandt
- Bruce Clemens
- Christopher Chidsey
- Jef Caers
- Matteo Cargnello
- William Chueh
- Yi Cui
- Hongjie Dai
- Reinhold Dauskardt
- Jennifer Dionne
- Chris Field
- Wendy Gu
- Lambertus Hesselink
- Werner Ihme
- Rob Jackson
- Thomas Jaramillo
- Paul Mclntyre
- Tyler Mefford
- Tapan Mukerji
- Freidrich Prinz
- Vaughan Pratt
- Stefan Reichelstein
- Alfred Spormann
- Jim Swartz
- William Abraham Tarpeh
- Hamdi Tchelepi
- Hai Wang
- John Weyant
- Frank Wolak
- Xiaolin Zheng