Hydrogen Fuel Produced from Corn To Power Your Cars

Engineers at Virginia Tech have succeeded in breaking abundantly available corn into useful hydrogen fuel that can power your automobiles. The work done so far by the researchers Percival Zhang and Joe Rollin has shown promise to accelerate the use of hydrogen fuel in vehicles and lower our dependence on fossil fuels. What's more important is that the new fuel will cost lesser than petrol - and also be very environment friendly. The method invented by the duo cuts down the time and money to create the zero-emission fuel.

The team used dirty biomass, mainly comprising of corn plant stalks to create hydrogen fuel thereby cutting down heavily on the costs involved in procuring raw material. The corn biomass can be easily sourced easily from processing plants. The team performed detailed mathematical analysis of the process that breaks corn into hydrogen and CO2. The team was able to increase the reaction rate ten folds and also up the enzymatic generation rates.


Rollin and Zhang are now planning to scale up their model for industrial demonstration. The duo firmly believe that their invention will be extremely useful in generation of green hydrogen from localized biomass resources. Read more about the research on the source link below.

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