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Solar Hydrogen Energy Pilot
Project for Libya
Dr. Mansour Emtir
LPI-Tripoli, Libya
Berlin-28/03/2008
WHY FOR LIBYA, “OIL PRODUCER” ?!
• Solar energy of North Africa is a reliable source of
energy that could improve the quality of
environment and ensure continued progress of
clean civilization
• Solar generated hydrogen will provide the
ultimate, renewable, clean fuel for all of our
energy needs
• Hydrogen is the only energy option that can be
integrated with virtually all other energy sources
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
• It is intended to explore the challenges and merits of
supplying a small community with all its energy needs
from solar energy.
• It will represent an important and logical step towards
supplying a larger community, village or town, with
their energy and water requirements in the future.
• It will convert solar radiation, using solar cells, into
electricity which is to be used for three interconnected
applications:
1- To supply electricity, during day-time, for a
community of about twenty homes representing
a small town.
2- To desalinate sea water required to meet the
needs of the project and the proposed
community, by the use of solar PV electricity.
3- To produce hydrogen through water electrolysis,
during sunny hours, that is necessary to provide
the community with the electricity, during nighttime, using fuel cells.
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It will include also a filling station to fill small
cylinders and car tanks with compressed
hydrogen gas for local usage.
RELATED INDUSTRIES
Solar Energy- Electrolysis- Fuel Cells- Sea Water
Desalination- …etc.
IMPORTANCE OF THE PROJECT
• The world has been finding less oil than it has
been consuming for the last twenty years.
• The world consumes two barrels of oil for
every barrel discovered.
• The world pumps CO2 to the atmosphere
today at a rate that is three times as fast as
the oceans and land can absorb it.
Billions of barrels of oil
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It is clear that the world is not only running out of cheap oil and
natural gas, but also out of environmental capacity to absorb the
impacts of processing and burning fossil fuels
WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES ?
One of the best available alternatives is:
• Solar Energy available locally
• Solar Energy available somewhere else
• For Europe: Solar Energy available in North
Africa
CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL
COOPERATION AND CONTRIBUTION
• There is real need for technological support and
contribution from the international community,
particularly, from the European Institutions to
help implement this project as a first step
towards larger projects in the future.
• It will create and promote R&D in educational
and research institutions.
Final Report
THANK YOU ALL