Green Hydrogen

Prof. Verykios’ research efforts on pollution abatement technologies provided the inspiration for the development of more environment friendly energy technologies. By this time, mid 80’s, hydrogen was discussed as the energy carrier of the future. Marrying the two, the concept of green hydrogen was born. This concept, has been awarded International Patent PCT 9801000180/22.5.98 and a number of distinctions.

The basic principle is that a number of bio-fuels, such as ethanol, bio-gas, bio-diesel, pyrolysis oil etc., can be produced from biomass by simple biological or thermal processes. These bio-fuels can be processed in the appropriate fuel processors to produce hydrogen. Feeding the hydrogen to a fuel cell co-generates electricity and heat.