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Scientists of the UCO obtain hydrogen from waste of oil and polluting materials
30/04/2009
April 30, 2009
A group of researchers from the University of Córdoba (UCO), led by Professor César Jiménez-Sanchidrián, raises solutions in the energy field with the extraction of hydrogen combined with new catalysts from waste oil, alcoholeras or mills.
"Hydrogen is the future," says César Jiménez-Sanchidrián. Thus, his team works in a project of excellence of the Junta de Andalucía, where it used the plasmacatálisis to obtain this gas. This procedure is based on a generating unit of plasma in line with a catalytic reactor (catalyst that slows down or speeds up a chemical process) which conveniently recombines the ionic species generated in the plasma. It is a case of coupling between physical and chemical technology.
