Abstract: A model of a solar–wind hydrogen energy system was applied to the Ceará state—Brazil and the prospects for reducing emissions of fossil fuels pollutants in such federal state were studied. This long-term study simulates three scenarios of fast, slow and no introduction of hydrogen in the energy balance of the Ceará state. Not including nitrogen oxides, if fuel burning continues, results indicate that hydrogen energy eventually will reduce to zero all emissions of fossil fuels pollutants in the Ceará state by the year 2060 in both scenarios of hydrogen introduction.
Keywords: Hydrogen energy; Fossil fuels pollutants; Ceará state
Key Variables: electric energy for desalination, fossil fuel price, hydrogen price, energy consumption/demand, gross product, hydrogen production (consumption) rate, quality of life, pollution, population, fossil fuel resources, solar insolation, fossil fuel pollution per unit energy, fraction of fossil fuels extracted per year, ratio of pollution produced by hydrogen to that produced by fossil fuels, ratio of hydrogen utilization efficiency to that of fossil fuels, Emissions of carbon dioxide in the Ceará state, Emissions of methane, Emissions of sulphur oxide, Emissions of nitrogen oxide
by E.M. do Sacramento 1, L.C. de Lima 1, C.J. Oliveira 1 and T. Nejat Veziroglu 2
1. Department of Physics, State University of Ceará, Fortaleza CE 60740-000, Brazil
2. Clean Energy Research Institute, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy via Elsevier Science Direct www.ScienceDirect.com
Volume 33, Issue 9; May, 2008; Pages 2132-2137
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2008.02.018
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