Asian Journal of Research in Chemistry

  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 3

An Understanding of Gasification and Applications of Catalytic Materials in Hydrogen Production: Mini Review

1Institute of Chemical Technology, Matunga, Mumbai-400 019, India

2Catalysis Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune-411 008, India

Abstract

In this modern era, it's quite difficult to imagine our society without plastics. Nowadays consumption as well as production of polymers are increased which creates huge amount of polymer waste creating environmental problems. There are various routes to convert the waste to energy in terms of fuels which mainly involves pyrolysis, thermal or catalytic degradation, energy incineration etc. This mini review mainly deals with application of heterogeneous catalysts in gasification of various wastes. Apart from it many basic concepts in field of waste to energy conversion are also discussed.

Keywords

Gasification, Hydrogen production, Waste to Energy, Heterogeneous catalysis, waste to hydrogen