RTI International is to explore ways of producing hydrogen on a large scale from coal and coal-biomass mixtures, under a $1.2m contract with the US Department of Energy.
RTI is an international research and technology development firm and will partner with the Sud-Chemie company on the project – a highly-innovative, listed, specialty chemicals company headquartered in Munich.
The hydrogen fuel contract is part of a hydrogen fuel initiative that the DOE launched in 2003.
“Coal-biomass-to-liquid technologies present a great opportunity for the production of transportation fuels from domestic energy sources, thereby reducing our dependence on foreign oil,” explained Jason Trembly, a Research Chemical Engineer at RTI who is the project’s principal investigator.
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