Hydrogen is a clean energy source that is environmentally friendly and safe. It is well known that electrolysis is a common method used to produce hydrogen. Other high cost methods for hydrogen production can be countered by the development of this low cost pulse width modulated circuit, using direct current provided by naturally existing solar energy as a power source. Efforts are being made in the scientific community to produce a low cost, portable, solar hydrogen generating device for a number of clean energy applications such as fuel cells and energy storage. Proof of concept has already been tested in the laboratory and a small prototype system is being designed and fabricated in the workshop at Alabama A&M University. Our results of this study and details of the electronic circuit and the prototype are presented.

Date Published: 7 October 2014
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 9176, Solar Hydrogen and Nanotechnology IX, 917606 (7 October 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2061964

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9176:
Solar Hydrogen and Nanotechnology IX
Sanjay Mathur, Editor(s)