As our rising energy demand is met with limited fossil fuel resources, energy contribution from renewables has to be increased. Due to the intermittent and fluctuating nature of renewable energy and the variations in energy consumption, energy storage has gained increasing attention.Formic acid (FA) has been proposed as a practically non-toxic, non-flammable hydrogen storage/energy storage media that can be synthesized from CO2 by direct electrochemical reduction or by catalytic hydrogenation. When energy is needed, FA can be decomposed to carbon dioxide and hydrogen and latter converted to electricity in a hydrogen/air fuel cell. When excess energy is available the recycled CO2 is converted to FA, making the energy storage cycle carbon neutral.

Insight into the hydrogen generation from formic acid in the presence of Ru-phosphine complexes

246th National Meeting (2013)

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