HYDROGEN AS AN ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF AUTOMOTIVE FUEL: AN EXPLORATORY BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH

Abstract

The world currently has a great need for alternative fuels to petroleum derivatives, which pollute the environment less, are renewable and can be produced in an economically viable way. This research addresses one of the great possibilities that is being studied, called “The Hydrogen Economy”. This research aims to verify the possibility of hydrogen as a viable economic alternative for its use as a fuel for motor vehicles, through the process of water electrolysis. With the current prospect of finite useful life of oil reserves, soon reaching high values for its application as a fuel. Therefore, hydrogen has gained notoriety as an economically and environmentally viable option, using water and salt, in an electrolysis process, which indicates greater performance in automotive engines. Based on an exploratory bibliographic research, in the main databases, theses, books, articles, government publications and technical-scientific reports, portraying an analysis based on favorable and unfavorable points in order to assess the possibilities of its use. Hydrogen can be seen as a promising energy source, a green fuel that burns cleaner and more efficiently. Technology that still undergoes analysis and feasibility research, based on this research, it also intended to understand and analyze them.