Hydrogen generation from water with the aid of ultra-violet light

Abstract

In our modern world, the main source of energy includes fossil fuels such as

coal and crude oil. Environmental concerns related to global warming,

greenhouse effects and sustainability are expected to move the world's energy

consumption away from fossil fuels. Thus, various new energy sources have

been developed to replace our dependency on fossil fuels and one of the

sources of energy is hydrogen.

The production of renewable and non-polluting fuels by the direct conversion of

solar energy into chemical energy is one of the main issues of this 21st century.

Hydrogen, the fuel with the highest energy capacity per unit mass, has the

potential to supplement and possibly replace fossil fuels in the next decades.

In this project, the aim is to study the effect of the photocatalyst on water

observe if hydrogen gas can be produced under ultra violet radiation without

the use of electricity to split the water molecule. With the Co catalyst by

addition of copper, zinc and nickel as selected base onto the photocatalyst to

have different mechanisms of approached hoping to increase the yield better.

The main purpose of this project is to conduct successful tests to spilt water

into hydrogen under ultra violet radiation.