{"id":173274,"date":"2022-03-10T19:31:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T14:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=173274"},"modified":"2022-03-10T19:31:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T14:01:56","slug":"scientists-develop-energy-efficient-hydrogen-production-by-urea-electrolysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-develop-energy-efficient-hydrogen-production-by-urea-electrolysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop energy-efficient hydrogen production by urea electrolysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Scientists have designed an electrocatalyst system for energy-efficient hydrogen production with the help of the electrolysis of urea.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Hydrogen Production by <\/b><b>Urea electrolysis<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The energy requirement for the production of hydrogen through water electrolysis can be reduced by 70% through urea electrolysis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This can be done by replacing the energy-intensive counterpart of water splitting, oxygen evolution, with urea oxidation in urea electrolysis. The low-cost, earth-abundant Ni-based catalysts are widely applied for this process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the main challenge associated with this urea oxidation is retaining the prolonged activity of the catalyst as the strong adsorption of the reactive intermediate(CO<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">x<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) on the active site referred to as catalyst poisoning causes activity loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To overcome this problem, scientists have <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">designed an electrocatalyst system <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for energy-efficient hydrogen production with the help of the electrolysis of urea.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/green-hydrogen-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Hydrogen Policy \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><b>What is the significance of the production of hydrogen by Urea electrolysis?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India is one of the top countries in urea production, and it produced 244.55 LMT of urea during 2019-20. The nitrogenous fertilizer industries generate a high concentration of ammonia and urea as effluents. Hence, this can be utilized for energy production towards our country&#8217;s benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ministry-of-power-notifies-green-hydrogen-green-ammonia-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ministry of Power notifies Green Hydrogen\/ Green Ammonia Policy<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article <b>\u201c<\/b><b>Scientists develop energy-efficient hydrogen production by urea electrolysis<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b>published in <b>PIB <\/b>on <b>9th Mar 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Indian Scientists have designed an electrocatalyst system for energy-efficient hydrogen production with the help of the electrolysis of urea. Hydrogen Production by Urea electrolysis The energy requirement for the production of hydrogen through water electrolysis can be reduced by 70% through urea electrolysis.\u00a0 This can be done by replacing the energy-intensive&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-develop-energy-efficient-hydrogen-production-by-urea-electrolysis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientists develop energy-efficient hydrogen production by urea electrolysis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-173274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}