{"id":226048,"date":"2025-11-27T20:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/dirty-water-boosts-prospects-for-clean-hydrogen"},"modified":"2025-11-27T20:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:03:20","slug":"dirty-water-boosts-prospects-for-clean-hydrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/dirty-water-boosts-prospects-for-clean-hydrogen","title":{"rendered":"Dirty water boosts prospects for clean hydrogen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dirty-water-boosts-prospects-for-clean-hydrogen.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wastewater can replace clean water as a source for hydrogen, eliminating a major drawback to hydrogen fuel and reducing water treatment costs of hydrogen production by up to 47%, according to new research from Princeton Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0043135425015751\">reported<\/a> Sept. 24 in the journal Water Research, are a step toward making hydrogen a practical pathway to decarbonize industries that are difficult to electrify, such as steel and fertilizer production.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.princeton.edu\/faculty\/zhiyong-quotjasonquot-ren\">Z. Jason Ren<\/a>, the senior study author, said that current electrolytic hydrogen production requires a large amount of clean water, increasing costs and straining local water supplies. His research team wanted to find out whether treated water processed by wastewater plants could be substituted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wastewater can replace clean water as a source for hydrogen, eliminating a major drawback to hydrogen fuel and reducing water treatment costs of hydrogen production by up to 47%, according to new research from Princeton Engineering. The findings, reported Sept. 24 in the journal Water Research, are a step toward making hydrogen a practical pathway [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226048","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}