{"id":206486,"date":"2025-02-14T19:16:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T01:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-create-hydrogen-with-no-direct-co%e2%82%82-emissions-at-source"},"modified":"2025-02-14T19:16:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T01:16:53","slug":"scientists-create-hydrogen-with-no-direct-co%e2%82%82-emissions-at-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-create-hydrogen-with-no-direct-co%e2%82%82-emissions-at-source","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create hydrogen with no direct CO\u2082 emissions at source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-hydrogen-with-no-direct-coe28282-emissions-at-source2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new way of creating hydrogen, which eliminates direct CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions at source, has been developed by an international team of scientists.<\/p>\n<p>The process reacts hydrogen-rich and sustainably sourced bioethanol taken from agricultural waste with water at just 270\u00b0C using a new bimetallic catalyst. Unlike traditional methods, which operate between 400\u00b0C and 600\u00b0C, are energy-intensive and generate large amounts of CO<sub>2<\/sub>, the catalyst shifts the chemical reaction to create hydrogen without releasing <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/carbon+dioxide\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon dioxide<\/a> as a byproduct.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the process co-produces high-value <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/acetic+acid\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">acetic acid<\/a>, an organic liquid used in <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/food+preservation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">food preservation<\/a>, household cleaning products, manufacturing and medicine, and has an annual global consumption exceeding 15 million tons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new way of creating hydrogen, which eliminates direct CO2 emissions at source, has been developed by an international team of scientists. The process reacts hydrogen-rich and sustainably sourced bioethanol taken from agricultural waste with water at just 270\u00b0C using a new bimetallic catalyst. Unlike traditional methods, which operate between 400\u00b0C and 600\u00b0C, are energy-intensive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206486","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}