Plasma reactors, hydrogen and politics


  Iulian Rusu [1]   ,  Ştefan Stanciugelu [2]   ,  Filip Cautiş [1]  
[1] Technical University ‘Gh. Asachi’ Iasi, Romania
[2] National School for Political Sciences and Administration, Bucharest, Romania

There is a quite large number of studies, published in the last decade, dealing with the possible pass of the human society to the hydrogen energy. The efforts made by researchers all around the world, in order to bring technical solutions, are remarkable but at global level only minor progresses were made toward this major change. Furthermore, most of studies predicted a fuel crisis but not a possible economical crisis and its effect on the developing renewable energy technologies. A large part of them are still in the development phase, with profits not at hand, public policies and funds playing an important role here. How strict is the rule of the red pencil and how can the international political co-operation to bring local or general solutions?

The Black Sea is a unique sea. Is the world's largest water body containing H2S and its hydrogen sulphide layer begins about 200 meters below the surface. As a source of hydrogen it could be possible to produce energy from this layer of Black Sea coastal parts by using appropriate technologies and renewable energy sources such as wind and/or solar energy.

Plasma reactors are characterized by fast heat and mass transfer in the reaction zone and as a result the need for a catalyst is avoided, minimizing the size and weight of the device, recommending them for the above application.