Study of hydrogen production by solar energy as tool of storing and utilization renewable energy for the desert areas

The main objective of this paper is to study of hydrogen production in the Sahara region. The present work discusses the possibility of generating solar hydrogen in southern Algeria. This region is among the areas with an average annual considerable Solar Energy in the world. The hydrogen has been produced with experimentation by electrolysis of water; the dissociation water energy is supplied by a photovoltaic module. The average production per square meter of solar panel is studied with both Seasonal factors and geographical areas, which is gives a very important hydrogen production especially in the south. The purpose of this work is to store the hydrogen as energy in the long term. Indeed, the hydrogen can be stored as gas material without significant loss regardless of the duration of storage, and then converted into electricity in a fuel cell (FC). This system, known as Solar-Hydrogen or PV -Hydrogen has many advantages such as, no moving parts, the electrolyzer and the fuel cell will produce without noise. The results from In Guezzam area showed highest ratio of hydrogen production (the annual average) at different locations varies according to solar radiation.