Oxidation of Hydrogenated Silicon Nanocrystals in AqueousEastern Canadian Provinces have been given the green light to produce hydrogen gas via simple electrolysis. Ecess, to be sold overseaes.
In Quebec, there's one junior i know of who is aiming to use biogas and split hydrogen away from the methane produced from the biogas.
Alberta is banking on the use of CO2 ( carbon gas ) and injecting it into the salt aquifers to react with the salt bines to produce hydrogen.
I ask... is there room for one more seat at the hydrogen table ?
Could/Should B.C. entertain the idea of using silicon oxide nano particles to induce a reaction with water to produce hydrogen gas ?
In prior posts i've offered an article in which discusses this novel idea of hydrogen production but the article didn't quite get into the depths of knowledge using this unique idea of hydrogen production.
Below, is a link to a researchgate article ( citation ) that explains in detail - how to produce hydrogen from the use of nano silicon and a catalyst of sodium hydroxide to induce the hydrogen reaction all the more.
NOTE - room temp is only needed - which makes this proceedure all the more attractive in conjunction to, the amount of hydrogen produced using nano silicon which appears to be the ( at present ) best material to produce hydrogen cheaply.
I WILL ADD ONE THING - Could one bypass the etching of the silicon and simply mill all ores into NANO particles and apply the use of a chemical to enhance the etching ( bathing bulk ores in dilut acid then drying ) to achieve the same characteristics of - injuring the nano silicon - to enhance it's porosity ? If possible.., such could significantly reduce the time of etching the silicon via laser techniques. Acids are known to create porosity by way of, altering the surface - could the use of dilute acids - bulk ores dipped in large vat bath anddried - be more economical than, laser etching ? Wouldn't be hard to test a 1 kg ore sample, - mill to nano particles - bath in dilute acid - quick dry - then, perform severla tests with the acid coated silicon crystals in water - different injection proceedures - such as... what if the alkai water was induced with O2 infusion creating an ozone water - would the excess oxigen procide even quicker hydrogen production ?
What i have noticed is - these nano silicon tests do say, silicon crystal.
I wonder how much influence the crystal has vs silicon as per hydrogen production ?
Ahhhh. could this al lpoint back to the silicon gel, areogels ?
EXCERPT - Silicon nanoparticles can be used to generate hydrogen much more rapidly than bulk silicon because of their high specic surface area. Chemical or anodic etching [44–46], the beads milling method [47–49], or laser pyrolysis [50] can produce the nano-powders used for hydrogen generation from oxidation reactions of Si in water. Since the reaction rate strongly depends on pH, the addition of alkalis or ammonia is often used in order to increase the rate of hydrogen production.
The fabrication of silicon nanostructures by electrochemical etching has a signicant advantage
over the other approaches cited above. Indeed, it results in the formation of nano-porous morphologies covered with an abundant number of silane groups (SiHX) [51–53]. The maximum specic surface of nanoporous silicon can reach the value of 800 m2/g, while the content of hydrogen chemically boundon the surface can be as high as 60 mmol of atomic H per gram of porous Si, corresponding to the H/Si ratio ~1.8 or to the 6% mass of H [44].
LINK - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343081882_Kinetics_of_Hydrogen_Generation_from_Oxidation_of_Hydrogenated_Silicon_ Nanocrystals_in_Aqueous_Solutions The article above - also includes a
diagran showing how much hydrogen imparts when using the a silicon nano particle. HIghly recommend the junior to at least take a peek at this.
The only energies i've seen in B.C. associated to energ yproduction are - coal, solar, hydro dam electrical projects and... a few geothermal... One has to ask, will B.C. take a backseat and depend on, Alberta's green - hydorgen gas ? Appears B.C. has been selected as teh Golden Boy Province - right ?
Thought i'd share this ( far more detailed paper ) on the use of silicon crystal and hydrogen production - rerading another's experimental results ( with diagrams ) and knowing the volumes of hydrogen produced vs simple article that leaves one wondering - is far better.
Will it be, solar ?
Or, have i managed to convince those incharge of green resources to reconsider ?
Wink.
What ever the path... i'd like to see some advancement on this stock.
Far too much downtime.
Cheers....