Materials and Processes for Solar Fuel Production

This book features different approaches to non-biochemical pathways for solar fuel production. This one-of-a-kind book addresses photovoltaics, photocatalytic water splitting for clean hydrogen production and CO2 conversion to hydrocarbon fuel through in-depth comprehensive contributions from a select blend of established and experienced authors from across the world. The commercial application of solar based systems, with particular emphasis on non-PV based devices have been discussed. This book intends to serve as a primary resource for a multidisciplinary audience including chemists, engineers and scientists providing a one-stop location for all aspects related to solar fuel production. The material is divided into three sections: Solar assisted water splitting to produce hydrogen; Solar assisted CO2 utilization to produce green fuels and Solar assisted electricity generation. The content strikes a balance between theory, material synthesis and application with the central theme being solar fuels.

This book features different approaches to non-biochemical pathways for solar fuel production. This one-of-a-kind book addresses photovoltaics, photocatalytic water splitting for clean hydrogen production and CO2 conversion to hydrocarbon fuel through in-depth comprehensive contributions from a select blend of established and experienced authors from across the world. The commercial application of solar based systems, with particular emphasis on non-PV based devices have been discussed. This book intends to serve as a primary resource for a multidisciplinary audience including chemists, engineers and scientists providing a one-stop location for all aspects related to solar fuel production. The material is divided into three sections: Solar assisted water splitting to produce hydrogen; Solar assisted CO2 utilization to produce green fuels and Solar assisted electricity generation. The content strikes a balance between theory, material synthesis and application with the central theme being solar fuels.

Strategic Design of Heterojunction CdS Photocatalysts for Solar Hydrogen.- Encapsulation for improving the efficiencies of solar cells .- Photocatalytic Solar Hydrogen Production: Current Status and Future Challenges.- Electrochemical and optical characterization of materials band structure.- New p-type Semiconducting Metal Oxides for Solar-to-Fuel Conversion: Investigation and Challenges.- Theoretical modeling of photoelectrochemistry related oxide-photocatalysts.- Photo-fuel cells. An alternative route for solar energy conversion.- Simultaneous Photodegradation and Hydrogen Production With TiO2/Pt/CdS Using UV-visible Light in the Presence of a Sacrificial Agent and a Pollutant.-  Stability of the β-Bi2O3 Nanoporous Photoanodes for Solar Water Splitting.-  Passivating the Surface of TiO2 Photoelectrodes with Nb2O5 and Al2O3 for High-efficiency Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.- Reduction of Carbon dioxide- Photo-catalytic Route to Solar Fuels.