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MINI REVIEW article

Front. Membr. Sci. Technol.
Sec. Membrane Applications - Liquid
Volume 3 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/frmst.2024.1382651
This article is part of the Research Topic Workshop Emerging Separation Technologies for Water Treatment and Air filtration View all 4 articles

Assessment of Green Hydrogen Production Environmental Impacts and Economic Viability: An Algerian Case Study

Provisionally accepted
Alexander Anim-Mensah Alexander Anim-Mensah 1,2*Nadjib Drouiche Nadjib Drouiche 1,3Wassila Boulaiche Wassila Boulaiche 1
  • 1 African Membrane Society (AMSIC), a Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs du Mali Abderhamane Baba Touré, Mali, Bamako, Mali
  • 2 i2i Innovation MegaHub (i2iMegaHub), Accra, Ghana
  • 3 Agence Nationale de la Valorisation des Résultats de la Recherche et du Développement Technologique (ANVREDET), El Djazair, Algeria

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    The impacts of climate change are real and its occurrences in many parts of the world testify to the harsh reality including the rampant extreme weather events, droughts, heat, wildfires, and flooding recorded in places which did experience them in recent memories. In the quest to avert these occurrences there is a growing awareness and demand for sustainable processes and operations.Today, sustainability can be defined to encompass a balance between ecological footprint and human development index taking into consideration economics, green environment, safety, quality, ethics, diversity & inclusion (D&I) and community. This article presents some steps taken by Algeria to balance energetic autonomy and sustainable development, and a case study in the space of green hydrogen production employing membranes processes. Algeria objective to join the global fight against climate change is developing its green hydrogen base. Given its existing and increasing resources including available solar and wind power, seawater desalination plants, building capacities and its good location is developing its green hydrogen economy to supply hydrogen especially to Europe. This presents the opportunityies for other developing nations, especially in Africa, to gain from this experience. are also explored.

    Keywords: Hydrogen, electrolyzers, Renewables, Energy, sustainability, Decarbonization, Membranes, clean-fuel

    Received: 06 Feb 2024; Accepted: 17 Jun 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Anim-Mensah, Drouiche and Boulaiche. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Alexander Anim-Mensah, African Membrane Society (AMSIC), a Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs du Mali Abderhamane Baba Touré, Mali, Bamako, Mali

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