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Intermediate-temperature electrolysis of energy grass Miscanthus sinensis for sustainable hydrogen production
Biohydrogen produced from the electrolysis of biomass is promising because the onset voltages are less than 1.0 V and comparable to those of water and alcohol-water electrolysis. The present study focuses on Miscanthus sinensis as a model grass because of its abundance and ease of cultivation in Jap...
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author | Ito, Masaya Hori, Tetsuya Teranishi, Shinya Nagao, Masahiro Hibino, Takashi |
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description | Biohydrogen produced from the electrolysis of biomass is promising because the onset voltages are less than 1.0 V and comparable to those of water and alcohol-water electrolysis. The present study focuses on Miscanthus sinensis as a model grass because of its abundance and ease of cultivation in Japan. The electrochemical performance and hydrogen formation properties of electrolysis cells using grass as a biohydrogen source were evaluated at intermediate temperature to achieve electrolysis. The components, such as holocellulose, cellulose, lignin, and extractives, were separated from Miscanthus sinensis to understand the reactions of Miscanthus sinensis in the electrolysis cell. The relatively high resistivity and low current-voltage performance of an electrolysis cell using lignin were responsible for degradation of the electrolysis properties compared to those with pure cellulose or holocellulose as biohydrogen resources. Biohydrogen was formed according to Faraday’s law and evolved continuously at 0.1 A cm(−2) for 3,000 seconds. |
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spelling | pubmed-62125402018-11-06 Intermediate-temperature electrolysis of energy grass Miscanthus sinensis for sustainable hydrogen production Ito, Masaya Hori, Tetsuya Teranishi, Shinya Nagao, Masahiro Hibino, Takashi Sci Rep Article Biohydrogen produced from the electrolysis of biomass is promising because the onset voltages are less than 1.0 V and comparable to those of water and alcohol-water electrolysis. The present study focuses on Miscanthus sinensis as a model grass because of its abundance and ease of cultivation in Japan. The electrochemical performance and hydrogen formation properties of electrolysis cells using grass as a biohydrogen source were evaluated at intermediate temperature to achieve electrolysis. The components, such as holocellulose, cellulose, lignin, and extractives, were separated from Miscanthus sinensis to understand the reactions of Miscanthus sinensis in the electrolysis cell. The relatively high resistivity and low current-voltage performance of an electrolysis cell using lignin were responsible for degradation of the electrolysis properties compared to those with pure cellulose or holocellulose as biohydrogen resources. Biohydrogen was formed according to Faraday’s law and evolved continuously at 0.1 A cm(−2) for 3,000 seconds. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6212540/ /pubmed/30385863 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34544-y Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Ito, Masaya Hori, Tetsuya Teranishi, Shinya Nagao, Masahiro Hibino, Takashi Intermediate-temperature electrolysis of energy grass Miscanthus sinensis for sustainable hydrogen production |
title | Intermediate-temperature electrolysis of energy grass Miscanthus sinensis for sustainable hydrogen production |
title_full | Intermediate-temperature electrolysis of energy grass Miscanthus sinensis for sustainable hydrogen production |
title_fullStr | Intermediate-temperature electrolysis of energy grass Miscanthus sinensis for sustainable hydrogen production |
title_full_unstemmed | Intermediate-temperature electrolysis of energy grass Miscanthus sinensis for sustainable hydrogen production |
title_short | Intermediate-temperature electrolysis of energy grass Miscanthus sinensis for sustainable hydrogen production |
title_sort | intermediate-temperature electrolysis of energy grass miscanthus sinensis for sustainable hydrogen production |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6212540/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30385863 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34544-y |
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