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Article: Argonne Develops Ceramic Membranes to Filter Hydrogen and Oxygen
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- JOM
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- March 1, 2004
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Ceramic membranes developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory may be key to the widespread use of hydrogen fuel for cars in the future.
Anewly developed ceramic membrane designed to filter hydrogen could be paired with an oxygen-filtering ceramic membrane developed at the laboratory approximately ten years ago to produce hydrogen fuel.
The process Argonne envisions for creating hydrogen fuel begins with synthesis gas, called syngas, as a raw material. Syngas, a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, is made by combining the methane in natural gas with oxygen. Methane contains hydrogen that is tightly bound to carbon. When oxygen comes in contact ...