Hydrogen

HYDROGEN FUEL
Production, Transport, and Storage

HYDROGEN FUEL
Production, Transport, and Storage
Edited by

Ram B. Gupta

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Contents
Preface.............................................................................................................................. vii Editor ................................................................................................................................. ix Contributors ...................................................................................................................... xi

Section I:1

Production and Use of Hydrogen

1

Fundamentals and Use of Hydrogen as a Fuel .....................................................3
K. K. Pant and Ram B. Gupta

2

Production of Hydrogen from Hydrocarbons ..................................................... 33
Nazim Z. Muradov

3

Hydrogen Production from Coal........................................................................ 103
Shi-Ying Lin

4

Hydrogen Production from Nuclear Energy ..................................................... 127
Ryutaro Hino and Xing L. Yan

5

Hydrogen Production from Wind Energy ......................................................... 161
Dimitrios A. Bechrakis and Elli Varkaraki

6

Sustainable Hydrogen Production by Thermochemical Biomass Processing...