Efficient use of Hydrogen generated by the Reaction of Water with Aluminum Alloy

Material Science, Energy Optmization

Energy plays an important role in improving country’s economy. To decrease the pollution and global warming we need new sustainable methods, which full fill the on growing demand of energy without destroying the ecological balance of the nature. The use of hydrogen is among the ways in which a green fuel is used. Hydrogen can be made by splitting water by reaction with aluminum alloy on demand in automobiles replacing conventional fossil fuel engine and fuel tank by hydrogen engine and water tank. Today as the need of the petroleum products is increasing with increase in population and industrialization, the depletion of fossil fuels (eg. Petrol, Diesel, Coal etc.) from earth is a harbinger of the energy crisis of the future, so to come out of this problem we find a technology in which we used aluminum which is mixed with some other metals like gallium, indium and tin which splits the water in hydrogen and oxygen. This hydrogen than used as a fuel in vehicles. Now a day’s due to fuel depletion the hydrogen produced is used as fuel instead of diesel which will bring the new revolution in the field of this sector. So in future the water will be the only source, which is present abundantly on earth. This technology will help to reduce the usage of fuels and reduce the pollution which also improves the economic condition of the country like India. Solid alloy of aluminum, gallium, indium and tin have been shown to react with water at room temperature to produce hydrogen and aluminum oxide in a exothermic reaction. This aluminum oxide can be recycled into aluminum. Apart from that aluminum metal is abundant on earth. The recycling is less expensive then mining aluminum-containing ore bauxite. After recycling the aluminum oxide back to aluminum 60 times the cost of producing energy would reduce to 10 cents per KW hour or Rs 6.33 per KW hour.

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