SCOPE
Hydrogen production
Maturity Level
TRL 5
Development Level
Pilot plant
Protection Level
Patent
Solar reactors for hydrogen production from wastewater
Entity:
HACDOS Project. Design, construction and validation of solar photocatalytic panel-reactors for hydrogen production from wastewater. Treatment of wastewater from very diverse origins (domestic, industrial, agro-livestock) in progress. Evaluation of the suitability of the technology for each type of water, in progress.
Challenges met
- Energy recovery from wastewater.
- Low-cost production of green hydrogen from waste.
- Treatment of problematic wastewater due to toxicity or persistence of pollutants.
Scope of application
We are currently conducting research to establish validation parameters and feasibility of the technology as a treatment method for many different types of water, in particular:
- Urban/domestic: Influents from sewage treatment plants, sewage sludge, sludge centrifugation residues
- Industrial, water generated in processes related to production (food, pharmaceutical, paper, biodiesel, petrochemical industry, polymers)
- Effluents from agricultural and livestock farms: Farm slurry
Very promising preliminary results have been obtained, including hydrogen production data with many of the waters studied so far.
Main publications
- A.V. Puga*, N. Barka, M. Imizcoz
Simultaneous H2 production and bleaching via solar photoreforming of model dye‐polluted wastewaters on metal/titania ChemCatChem 13(6), 1513–1529, 2021
- M. Imizcoz, A.V. Puga*
Assessment of photocatalytic hydrogen production from biomass or wastewaters depending on the metal co-catalyst and its deposition method on TiO2 Catalysts 9(7), 584, 2019
Related projects
- Solar hydrogen generation from wastewaters in inexpensive and scalable photocatalytic panels, HACDOS (CPP2021-008619)
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