HYDROGEN QUESTION PLEASE CAN YOU HELP ME?
HYDROGEN QUESTION PLEASE CAN YOU HELP ME?
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What is the specific Energy for hydrogen and how can i caculate the Mass of hydrogen required to produce electricity for a day at an Eff of about 90%
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RE: HYDROGEN QUESTION PLEASE CAN YOU HELP ME?
Hydrogen has 51,571 Btu/lb (LHV) and/or 235 Btu/scf. From; that you can determine how much hydrogen you need.
RE: HYDROGEN QUESTION PLEASE CAN YOU HELP ME?
RE: HYDROGEN QUESTION PLEASE CAN YOU HELP ME?
I don't know where that 90 % efficiency came from. If Mechdod is talking about a conventional power plant in which a fuel is burned to produce steam and the steam is then used to drive a turbo-generator to produce electricity, such plants have an overall thermal efficiency of about 34-35 percent. Thus, they require about 10,000 Btu of combustible fuel per kw-hr of end product electricity ... whether that fuel is natural gas, oil, coal or hydrogen.
If the power plant uses a combined cycle (i.e., a gas turbine driving a generator, and the gas turbine's hot flue gas is used to generate steam to drive another generator), then the overall thermal effciiency is about 60 percent which means that the required fuel is about 5,700 Btu per kw-hr.
If the combined cycle is used to cogenerate electricity and heat (which is not what Mechdod asked about), then the overall thermal efficiency may approach about 85 percent.
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RE: HYDROGEN QUESTION PLEASE CAN YOU HELP ME?
Hydrogen and related fuel cell engineering Forum
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it may be a fuel cell question. Mechdod, please elaborate on how you intend to use the hydrogen.
RE: HYDROGEN QUESTION PLEASE CAN YOU HELP ME?
''A fuel cell vehicle or fork lift consumes approximately 3kg - 5kg of H2 per day.''
RE: HYDROGEN QUESTION PLEASE CAN YOU HELP ME?
ΔHf, H2O(g) = -228.6 kJ/mole
from CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.
A mole of H2 is 2 grams, so multiply by 500 for
Energy per Kg of H2: 114.3 MJ/Kg