{"id":57245,"date":"2017-05-08T15:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T22:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/generating-power-from-polluted-air"},"modified":"2017-05-08T15:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T22:22:29","slug":"generating-power-from-polluted-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/generating-power-from-polluted-air","title":{"rendered":"Generating power from polluted air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/generating-power-from-polluted-air.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium, have developed a process that purifies air, and at the same time, generates power. The device must only be exposed to light in order to function.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used a small <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/device\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">device<\/a> with two rooms separated by a membrane,\u201d explained professor Sammy Verbruggen (UAntwerp\/KU Leuven). \u201cAir is purified on one side, while on the other side, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hydrogen+gas\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hydrogen gas<\/a> is produced from a part of the degradation products. This <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hydrogen\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hydrogen<\/a> gas can be stored and used later as fuel, as is already being done in some hydrogen buses, for example.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this way, the researchers respond to two major social needs: clean air and alternative energy production. The heart of the solution lies at the membrane level, where the researchers use specific nanomaterials. \u201cThese catalysts are capable of producing hydrogen gas and breaking down air pollution,\u201d explains professor Verbruggen. \u201cIn the past, these cells were mostly used to extract hydrogen from water. We have now discovered that this is also possible, and even more efficient, with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/polluted+air\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">polluted air<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-05-power-polluted-air.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;05-power-polluted-air.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium, have developed a process that purifies air, and at the same time, generates power. The device must only be exposed to light in order to function. \u201cWe used a small device with two rooms separated by a membrane,\u201d explained professor Sammy Verbruggen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57245","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}