A research group led by Associate Professor Zhang Qiwu and Professor Fumio Saito at Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials has developed a method for generating pure hydrogen with high efficiency from sewage sludge (water content ratio: 80%).

 Hydrogen is expected to be widely used as feed gas in fuel-cell besides fuel gas. So far, the research group had created the method for generating high-purity hydrogen (98%) from woody biomass in the yield of 97% in cellulose standard. In this study, they have devised the method, enabling to generate successfully high-purity hydrogen from sewage sludge (provided by the Hirose-gawa River Purification Center in Sendai) in good yield, without grinding and drying processes.

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