BAS is working on technology for electricity production in the Black Sea

Scientists from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences developed a new technology that could produce electricity and hydrogen sulphide in water utilized the Black Sea and decomposes it into place. Consortium of the Institute of Chemical Engineering and Institute of Oceanology already won project funding program era.net, a division of the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union.
The project provides direct conversion of hydrogen sulphide into electricity, using a new type of fuel cell. The electricity produced will be used for the decomposition of seawater, with receipt of hydrogen on the spot.
The amount of hydrogen sulphide in Black Sea waters is estimated at 4.6 billion tons and energy is equal to 9,000,000,000 megawatt-hours. Annually in the Black Sea forming new hydrogen sulfide levels corresponding to the annual energy consumption of natural gas in Bulgaria, according to the BAS.
The project will meet a number of difficulties associated with low concentrations of hydrogen sulfide of available depths and the need to work on the high seas – a platform or a ship. Another difficulty is the storage of hydrogen receipts and finding sales.
The project is implemented in cooperation with the Polytechnic University of Timisoara (Romania) and the Institute of Chemistry and Electrochemistry unlimited in Tbilisi (Georgia). Institute of Chemical Engineering, BAS is the coordinator of the program.

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