Soobhankar Pati: Waste-to-Hydrogen Production

"Before I came to the College of Engineering, I received my master's degree in materials science in India, but I wasn't sure exactly what type of research to get involved in here. I joined Professor Uday Pal's (ME) lab and began focusing on producing metals in a high-efficiency, environmentally-friendly way. Traditionally, technologically important metals such as magnesium, titanium and calcium are produced in two steps. First the metal oxide is converted to metal chloride and then the metal is extracted from the chloride. However, our method produces metal in one step directly from oxides, so there are no pollutants or harmful byproducts involved. This metal extraction work gave me a background in electrochemistry, and from there, my research moved into the fields of hydrogen and clean energy. We're now developing a method to extract pure hydrogen from garbage that will eventually be used by fuel cells to derive energy. Our process is very unique, as it uses garbage to produce separate streams of high purity hydrogen and synthetic gas in a single step. To simulate garbage, we're currently using high-density polyethylene (HDPE), which is essentially the same material used in a plastic bottle. The HDPE is inserted in one side of our solid oxide membrane, and steam enters through the other side. The steam dissociates to produce hydrogen and oxygen ions, and the membrane selectively allows only oxygen ions to migrate across. The oxygen ions react with the HDPE to produce a ...
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