Artificial photosynthesis is a process that replicates natural photosynthesis by converting sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into chemical fuels like hydrogen. It uses photocatalytic water splitting to convert water into hydrogen ions and oxygen. A photoelectric cell submerged in water uses catalysts and simulated sunlight to produce oxygen bubbles on one side and hydrogen bubbles on the other side. By tweaking the reactions, artificial photosynthesis could produce liquid hydrogen as a fuel and provide a sustainable way to store solar energy in the chemical bonds of fuels.
Artificial photosynthesis is a process that replicates natural photosynthesis by converting sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into chemical fuels like hydrogen. It uses photocatalytic water splitting to convert water into hydrogen ions and oxygen. A photoelectric cell submerged in water uses catalysts and simulated sunlight to produce oxygen bubbles on one side and hydrogen bubbles on the other side. By tweaking the reactions, artificial photosynthesis could produce liquid hydrogen as a fuel and provide a sustainable way to store solar energy in the chemical bonds of fuels.
Artificial photosynthesis is a process that replicates natural photosynthesis by converting sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into chemical fuels like hydrogen. It uses photocatalytic water splitting to convert water into hydrogen ions and oxygen. A photoelectric cell submerged in water uses catalysts and simulated sunlight to produce oxygen bubbles on one side and hydrogen bubbles on the other side. By tweaking the reactions, artificial photosynthesis could produce liquid hydrogen as a fuel and provide a sustainable way to store solar energy in the chemical bonds of fuels.
Artificial photosynthesis is a process that replicates natural photosynthesis by converting sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into chemical fuels like hydrogen. It uses photocatalytic water splitting to convert water into hydrogen ions and oxygen. A photoelectric cell submerged in water uses catalysts and simulated sunlight to produce oxygen bubbles on one side and hydrogen bubbles on the other side. By tweaking the reactions, artificial photosynthesis could produce liquid hydrogen as a fuel and provide a sustainable way to store solar energy in the chemical bonds of fuels.
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CHALAMAYYA INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE
ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS Presented by Guide 17H41A04B7 Mr.Sharma Adithe Undapalli Hanuvamsi Abstract Artificial photosynthesis is envisioned as a promising strategy to convert sunlight, a practically unlimited and sustainable source of energy, into chemical fuels through unnatural process. In this scheme, the oxidation of water molecules is necessary to provide the electrons than will be employed in the synthesis of chemical fuels. Artificial Photosynthesis Artificial Photosynthesis is a chemical process that replicates the natural process of photosynthesis, a process that converts sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and oxygen. The term is commonly used to refer to any scheme for capturing and storing the energy from sunlight in the chemical bonds of a fuel (a solar fuel). Photocatalytic Water Splitting, converts water into Hydrogen lons and oxygen, and is a main research area in artificial photosynthesis.
A sample of a photoelectric cell in a lab environment. Catalysts are added to the cell, which is submerged in water and illuminated by simulated sunlight. The bubbles seen are oxygen (forming on the front of the cell) and hydrogen (forming on the back of the cell). How It Works To recreate the photosynthesis that plants have perfected, an energy conversion system has to be able to do two crucial things: harvest sunlight and split water molecules. Plants accomplish these tasks using chlorophyll, which captures sunlight, and a collection of proteins and enzymes that use that sunlight to break down water molecules into hydrogen, electrons and oxygen (protons). For an artificial system to work for human needs, the output has to change. Instead of releasing only oxygen at the end of the reaction, it would have to release liquid hydrogen(or perhaps methanol) as well. That hydrogen could be used directly as liquid fuel or channeled into a fuel cell. How It Works The major part is splitting the water molecules to get the electrons necessary to facilitate the chemical process that produces the hydrogen. Splitting water requires an energy input of about 2.5 volts. This means the process requires a catalyst -- something to get the whole thing moving. The catalyst reacts with the sun's photons to initiate a chemical reaction. Why Artificial Photosynthesis? Demand for energy is projected to increase at least two fold by mid-century relative to the present global consumption because of predicted population and economic growth. Higher energy conversion efficiency. Increasing need of land mass for food production. To produce a fuel from sunlight that can be stored conveniently and used when sunlight is not available. Due to the concentration of CO2 increases in the environment day by day. USES OF ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS
The photosynthetic process could be tweaked so the reactions between light,
CO, and H,O ultimately produce liquid hydrogen. Liquid hydrogen can be used like gasoline in hydrogen-powered engines. The solar energy can be immediately converted and stored in artificial photosynthesis unlike photovoltaic cells where sunlight is converted into electricity and then converted again into chemical energy for storage. This type of photo electrochemical reaction could even remove large amounts of harmful CO, from the air. Artificial photosynthesis aims to split water in oceans, and even rivers into its hydrogen , oxygen, and carbon components. Hydrogen produced via AP is readily usable in the fuel cells of electric cars being manufactured now. It can also be used to store solar energy. CONCLUSION With this idea we must establish a lab in every hospital where artificial photosynthesis can be done. Because in hospitals there is large amount of oxygen is required also the other by product that is glucose can be used in the hospitals. THANK YOU ????
