BUFFALO — Producing clean hydrogen is one way to address climate change that is threatening the planet. It can be used in a fuel cell or gas turbine to create electricity with only water and heat as byproducts.
There is just one problem. More than 95% of the roughly 10 million metric tons of hydrogen currently produced in the United States comes from natural gas, which results in significant emissions.
Haiqing Lin, PhD, professor and director of graduate studies in chemical and biological engineering at the University at Buffalo, is attempting to change this percentage.
Lin and his team of researchers were recently awarded $1.5 million in funding, including $1.17 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), for a two-year-long project that is scheduled to begin on April 1. They will develop…
