{"id":149394,"date":"2022-11-03T13:25:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/engineers-developed-a-breakthrough-method-to-generate-hydrogen-gas-in-one-step-process"},"modified":"2022-11-03T13:25:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:25:31","slug":"engineers-developed-a-breakthrough-method-to-generate-hydrogen-gas-in-one-step-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/engineers-developed-a-breakthrough-method-to-generate-hydrogen-gas-in-one-step-process","title":{"rendered":"Engineers developed a breakthrough method to generate hydrogen gas in one-step process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-developed-a-breakthrough-method-to-generate-hydrogen-gas-in-one-step-process2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The method requires only visible light and no external heating.<\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen sulfide, infamous for its aroma of rotten eggs, is known to be highly poisonous and corrosive \u2014 especially in wastewater applications. Petrochemical plants and other industries make thousands of tons of this gas every year as a byproduct of various processes that separate sulfur from petroleum, natural gas, coal, and other products.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Rice University engineers and scientists have devised a new way for such petrochemical industries to turn the noxious gas into \u201chigh-demand\u201d hydrogen gas.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Audioundwerbung\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>Rice engineer, physicist, and chemist Naomi Halas and the team have created a method that derives energy from light and employs gold nanoparticles to convert hydrogen sulfide and sulfur in one step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The method requires only visible light and no external heating. Hydrogen sulfide, infamous for its aroma of rotten eggs, is known to be highly poisonous and corrosive \u2014 especially in wastewater applications. Petrochemical plants and other industries make thousands of tons of this gas every year as a byproduct of various processes that separate sulfur [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}