Hydrogen production and green chemistry

Abstract

This paper presents a study on the production of hydrogen and “green chemistry”. The introduction introduces the terminology and historical data, followed by the defining principles that describe hydrogen production methods using natural gas, coal, water and biomass as feedstock. Some basics of “green chemistry” are also given. The next section provides an analysis of all hydrogen production methods, the results of the analysis are recorded in a table that allows you to identify the most environmentally friendly solutions. In the conclusion it is stated that the results of the study indicated in the table make it possible to assess the compliance of each of the 13 methods for producing hydrogen with the principles of “green chemistry”, and the assessment and comments do not take into account the economic component of technologies, the main emphasis is on environmental protection.