Methods and systems for producing hydrogen substantially without greenhouse gas emissions, one method including producing a product gas comprising hydrogen and carbon dioxide from a hydrocarbon fuel source; separating hydrogen from the product gas to create a hydrogen product stream and a byproduct stream; injecting the byproduct stream into a reservoir containing mafic rock; and allowing components of the byproduct stream to react in situ with components of the mafic rock to precipitate and store components of the byproduct stream in the reservoir.

According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a method of producing hydrogen in a fuel cell includes passing ammonia under pressure to an anode of the fuel cell, where the ammonia is decomposed into nitrogen gas and protons. The fuel cell comprises a cathode, the anode, and a proton-conducting electrolyte between the anode and the cathode. The anode includes an ammonia decomposition catalyst. The method further includes passing the purging the nitrogen from the anode, passing the protons through the proton-conducting electrolyte to the cathode, and passing the electrons from the anode to the cathode, wherein the protons and the electrons react to produce substantially pure hydrogen gas under pressure.

A system comprising an ammonia cracking unit in which ammonia is split into hydrogen and nitrogen and a hydrogen fueling station for fueling of vehicle tanks with hydrogen from the ammonia cracking unit which comprises gas operated valves (GOVs), one or more hydrogen compressing units wherein the hydrogen from the ammonia cracking unit is compressed, and one or more dispensing units for dispensing the compressed hydrogen to vehicle tanks which each comprise a nozzle through which the hydrogen is passed to the vehicle tank, wherein nitrogen from the ammonia cracking unit is used in e.g.: the operation of one or more of the GOVs; for blanketing one or more of said hydrogen compressing units; for blanketing and/or purging one or more of the dispensing units; for drying one or more of the nozzles between uses to prevent nozzle freeze on.

A gas turbine engine includes a core engine that includes a core flow path where air is compressed in a compressor section, communicated to a combustor section, mixed with an ammonia based fuel and ignited to generate a high energy combusted gas flow that is expanded through a turbine section. The turbine section is mechanically coupled to drive the compressor section. An ammonia flow path communicates an ammonia flow to the combustor section. A cracking device is disposed in the ammonia flow path. The cracking device is configured to decompose the ammonia flow into a fuel flow containing hydrogen (H2). At least one heat exchanger is upstream of the cracking device that provides thermal communication between the ammonia flow and a working fluid flow such that the ammonia fluid flow accepts thermal energy from the working fluid flow.

This invention relates to a supported catalyst for synthesizing ammonia (NH.sub.3) from nitrogen gas (N.sub.2) and hydrogen gas (H.sub.2), method of making the support, and methods of decorating the support with the catalyst.

Catalysts for NH.sub.3 cracking and/or synthesis generally include barium calcium aluminum oxide compounds decorated with ruthenium, cobalt, or both. These catalysts can be bonded to a metal structure, which improves thermal conductivity and gas conductance.

The present disclosure is related to the field of chemistry and provides methods and devices for stimulation of endothermic reactions in gas phase with high activation barriers by nanosecond pulsed electrical discharge. It can be used for, e.g., CO.sub.2 functionalization of methane, H.sub.2S dissociation, hydrogen and syngas production, for processing ammonia synthesis and dissociation, etc. Some embodiments include methods and devices associated with the stimulation of plasma chemical reactions with nanosecond pulse electric discharge in the presence of gas flow.

An improved power generation system for aircraft and methods of its operation are provided, wherein the system combines a wave reformer providing a contiguous fuel supply to a jet engine, and use of ammonia as the fuel source from which hydrogen and/or a duel supply of ammonia and hydrogen will be supplied to aircraft jet engines leading to a higher thermal efficiency than existing engines with low to no direct emission footprint.

A method for preparing hydrogen gas includes a decomposition step, a first adsorption step, a second adsorption step, a first regeneration step, a third heat-exchange step, and a second regeneration step.

The invention relates to a carbon dioxide-neutral bio converter facility (BKA) according to FIG. 1, comprising: —at least one bio converter (BK) for a single-stage or multistage production of biogas (BG) by fermenting biomass (BM) in a fermentation liquid (GF) which is moved using agitation means in the presence of elemental hydrogen, hydrogenotrophic and methanogenic archaea, and activated carbon compositions (K; KM), —an ammonia store (NH3) which, by means of an ammonia line (NH3L), is connected to—an ammonia cracker (AC) for producing hydrogen and nitrogen (H2/N2) by catalytically cracking ammonia, and—a line (LH2/N2) for introducing the generated hydrogen (H2) or the hydrogen-nitrogen mixture (H2/N2) into the at least one bio converter (BK), and/or—a device (VBK) for treating the activated carbon compositions (K; KM) with hydrogen (H2) at a high pressure, comprising a pressure line (25) and an injection lance (28) for injecting the hydrogen-containing carbon compositions (K; KM) into the fermentation liquid (GF), wherein the ammonia is produced using renewable energy, and the ammonia cracker (AC) is operated using the renewable energy. The invention also relates to a conversion method, to a method for injecting hydrogen-containing carbon compositions (H2K; H2KM), and to the use of the fermentation products (KBM).