Advanced Hybrid Ceramics for Nuclear and Hydrogen Energy Applications

Abstract

Global energy crisis has encouraged the need for sustainable energy resources, which is the viable alternate of providing effective energy operations and considered as remedy for the ongoing energy crisis. Development in the science and technology eases out plenty of issues that were once thought to be uphill. Presently, earth is being subjected to several grave issues which need to be addressed as soon as possible. Nuclear and hydrogen energy are the important areas which promise the optimistic way of handling the existential energy crisis due to cost, scarcity of resources and unavailability of considerable feedstock. Ceramics are the diverse inorganic materials which offer tremendous chemical and physical characteristics. Due to their structural, compositional and morphological versatility, advanced ceramics based hybrid materials can be exploited in nuclear and hydrogen energy applications as discussed in this review. Extensive survey outlined the applicability of ceramics in various nuclear science based applications as they include fissionable species and possess higher thermal conductivity, their enormous resistance towards radiation and refractoriness in fuels and in waste residuals due to their potential to hold radio nuclides and surveyed the scope of several metal oxides ceramics in carrying out hydrogen energy operations via overall water splitting.

Hydrogen Energy as Sustainable Energy Resource for Carbon-Neutrality Realization

“…Therefore, the prospects of alkaline electrolyzers for H 2 generation are foreseen to be viable for large-scale applicability of H 2 energy due to the incessant decrease in the levelized cost of electricity. Developing photovoltaic and photochemical innovations are capable of fulfilling the current energy demand due to the advanced solar efficiency. − Similarly, thermochemical water splitting exploiting the redox-active sites of catalytic systems also offers remarkable promise of two-step splitting for the production of oxygen and hydrogen. , Redox splitting cycles via metal oxide-based catalysts have been found to be effective for H 2 generation ascribed to the efficiency higher than 40%. , Budama et al analyzed the scope of thermochemical H 2 generation via ceria-led catalysis. The group revealed the measures to attain benchmark $2/kg H 2 for wide-scale applicability by enhancing the solar field effectiveness, surplus gains from electricity, and lowering input investment.…”

Superlative Porous Organic Polymers for Photochemical and Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Applications: From Synthesis to Functionality

“…9 However, variance in the RERs creates serious a challenge to achieving intermittency and uniformity of the stable and reliable energy supply. 10,11 Therefore, in order to optimize the RERs for large-scale applicability, different sustainable pathways are taken into account by researchers.…”

“…Wind, solar, hydro-/geo-thermal, and biomass forms of renewable energy are the major carriers of sustainable energy which ought to harness significant yield with affordability conditioned upon their technological advancements. , Therefore, for the utilization of renewable energy resources (RERs), the development of effective and scalable energy storage assemblies is a requirement which allows minimum energy loss. , For instance, developing smart grids by integrating cutting-edge technology into power grids can escalate the flexibility, reliability, and ability to accommodate renewable energy efficiently . However, variance in the RERs creates serious a challenge to achieving intermittency and uniformity of the stable and reliable energy supply. , Therefore, in order to optimize the RERs for large-scale applicability, different sustainable pathways are taken into account by researchers.…”