©ENEA - EPFL engineers are taking part in PROMETEO - an EU research project to generate hydrogen on a large scale from renewable sources, in an effort to lower industrial carbon emissions. Whether used as a fuel or as a storage medium, hydrogen is a perfectly clean energy source. However, the processes used to make it are not, since they still rely mainly on electricity or fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal. Under PROMETEO, an EU project launched earlier this year, engineers will work to develop a new system for the large-scale production of clean hydrogen, using only renewable energy sources. This would help lower the carbon emissions of many major manufacturing industries. Jan Van Herle's research group at EPFL Valais-Wallis in Sion is taking part in this initiative. The idea is to build a prototype that uses electrolysis to extract hydrogen from water - the "H" in H
2O.
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