Powering the Future: Progress and Hurdles in Developing Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Components to Achieve Department of Energy Goals—A Systematic Review

Madheswaran, Dinesh Kumar; Thangamuthu, Mohanraj; Gnanasekaran, Sakthivel; Gopi, Suresh; Ayyasamy, Tamilvanan; Pardeshi, Sujit S.

doi:10.3390/su152215923

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“…From 2018 to 2022, the hydrogen production method involved in Topic 8 was hydrogen production via water electrolysis. The current mainstream water electrolysis technologies include alkaline water electrolyzers [92], proton-exchange membrane water electrolyzers [93], and solid-oxide water electrolyzers [94]. The catalysts for hydrogen production by water electrolysis are precious-metal catalysts, molybdenum-series catalysts, nickelbased catalysts, high-entropy alloys, Pt-based catalysts, nanoparticle composite materials, etc.…”

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Identification of Hydrogen-Energy-Related Emerging Technologies Based on Text Mining

Lin,

Zhou

2023

Sustainability

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As a versatile energy carrier, hydrogen possesses tremendous potential to reduce greenhouse emissions and promote energy transition. Global interest in producing hydrogen from renewable energy sources and transporting, storing, and utilizing hydrogen is rising rapidly. However, the high costs of producing clean hydrogen and the uncertain application scenarios for hydrogen energy result in its relatively limited utilization worldwide. It is necessary to find new promising technological paths to drive the development of hydrogen energy. As part of technological innovation, emerging technologies have vital features such as prominent impact, novelty, relatively fast growth, etc. Identifying emerging hydrogen-energy-related technologies is important for discovering innovation opportunities during the energy transition. Existing research lacks analysis of the characteristics of emerging technologies. Thus, this paper proposes a method combining the latent Dirichlet allocation topic model and hydrogen-energy expert group decision-making. This is used to identify emerging hydrogen-related technology regarding two features of emerging technologies, novelty and prominent impact. After data processing, topic modeling, and analysis, the patent dataset was divided into twenty topics. Six emerging topics possess novelty and prominent impact among twenty topics. The results show that the current hotspots aim to promote the application of hydrogen energy by improving the performance of production catalysts, overcoming the wide power fluctuations and large-scale instability of renewable energy power generation, and developing advanced hydrogen safety technologies. This method efficiently identifies emerging technologies from patents and studies their development trends. It fills a gap in the research on emerging technologies in hydrogen-related energy. Research achievements could support the selection of technology pathways during the low-carbon energy transition.

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