Harvesting Green Hydrogen from Underground Oil Fires
Feb-07-20
By injecting steam and air into underground layers of thick, viscous oil and setting it on fire, chemical reactions are produced that emit hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide.Once testing is complete Proton Technologies plans on adding membranes to the wells that would allow only the clean-burning hydrogen to reach the surface, proving you can get zero carbon emission energy from petroleum sources.
The company claims it can cut production costs by harvesting energy from abandoned oil wells that are water-logged or have oil that is too thick to be utilized using conventional methods.
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