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Glycerol one of the big byproducts of biodisel production could be converted to hydrogen rich gas using a process developed at Leeds University in the UK, and reported on Biopact. This is not Dr Valerie DuPont's first venture in to this area. A report, published in Fuel Cells Bulletin in 2004 focused on her work on sunflower oil and two catalysts which generated hydrogen with 90% purity. The new research is particularly interesting, because there is an increasing amount of glcyerol around in the marketplace and just as distillers grains help the economics of ethanol production, if it is possible to make hydrogen in reasonable quantities in reasonably quickly from glcyerol, then the economics of biodiesel might look a little brighter in the future. Assuming we can store and trasnport hydrogen effectively.
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Glycerol one of the big byproducts of biodisel production could be converted to hydrogen rich gas using a process developed at Leeds University in the UK, and reported on Biopact. This is not Dr Valerie DuPont's first venture in to this area. A report, published in Fuel Cells Bulletin in 2004 focused on her work on sunflower oil and two catalysts which generated hydrogen with 90% purity. The new research is particularly interesting, because there is an increasing amount of glcyerol around in the marketplace and just as distillers grains help the economics of ethanol production, if it is possible to make hydrogen in reasonable quantities in reasonably quickly from glcyerol, then the economics of biodiesel might look a little brighter in the future. Assuming we can store and trasnport hydrogen effectively.
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