Hydrogen Generator Developed by Iranian Scientists for Pharmaceutical Industry
"Hydrogen generators are a proper alternative to hydrogen capsules. Hydrogen capsules have many risks, including the risk of explosion and fire,” Kourosh Jiani, a technical expert at the Iranian knowledge-based company, told ANA.
He added that the hydrogen generators electrolyze water, noting, “Pure water without ions enters the device and the device separates the water. Finally, the separated hydrogen and oxygen are the output of this device.”
Elaborating on applications of the separated hydrogen, Jiani said, “The hydrogen separated in the device after the drying process can be used in the pharmaceutical industry, laboratories and forensic medicine.”
Jiani said that before indigenization of the device in Iran, it was imported from countries like Germany and the US.
A hydrogen generator uses a proton exchange membrane (PEM) to produce high purity hydrogen gas from water to create hydrogen on demand.
The PEM cell was originally developed by NASA and is extensively used in industrial and laboratory applications that required hydrogen gas generation.
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe, although in its gaseous state it does not naturally occur on Earth and must be manufactured. In industry, H2(g) is produced on a large scale by a process called steam reforming, to separate carbon and hydrogen atoms from hydrocarbon fuels.
Hydrogen is used in the laboratory for a variety of lab applications such as Gas Chromatography (GC) as fuel or carrier gas and ICP-MS as a collision gas, in the chemical industry to synthesize ammonia, cyclohexane and methanol and in the food industry for hydrogenation of oils to form fats.
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