• Carbon dioxide is one of the major contributors of the global warming. Most of the atmospheric CO2 emission is from the energy sector industries.
• Using an alternative source of energy can be a significant advantage for controlling Atmospheric CO2 concentration, hence clean fuel is needed.
• Hydrogen doesn’t leave carbon footprint, making it a clean’ source of energy. However, the practical use of hydrogen is limited due to the facts:

1.Currently, hydrogen is produced mostly from the steam reformation of natural gases and the production cost is very high.

2.There is parallel emission of CO2/CO with hydrogen production from natural gas. Hence, this is not an environment-friendly method.

3.H2 gas is highly inflammable and may cause explosion. Thus, the transportation is very difficult.

4.Hydrogen is a very light gas and its storage in gas phase is challenging. It could be stored as liquid, however liquefaction requires cryogenic storage and boils at 20.268K. So, a significant loss of energy is associated with its liquefaction.

• Hence it is required to address above mentioned issues by introducing an efficient method and an apparatus for safely generating hydrogen without any transporting or handling issues.

Present invention describes an in-situ co-reduction approach for producing hydrogen at a rate of 610 mL/min by adding 0.5g starting material (aluminum salt selected from a group of aluminum sulphate) and 0.3g reducing agent (comprising sodium borohydride) to water (seawater, wastewater or tap water) at the room temperature.

Apparatus for in-situ co-reduction method for H2 production, comprises:

• A three-compartment housing with a flow controller, bottom air-tight reaction chamber, water inlet, a hydrogen outlet; wherein the housing has two containers with flow controller or three containers with flow controller.
• Three containers with flow controller placed in the middle of the compartment to regulate the flow of starting material and reducing agent into the bottom air-tight reaction chamber proportionately to the water supplied through the water inlet or, to the water in the chamber.
• Further, the Hydrogen production reaction occurs in the bottom air-tight compartment and the nascent Hydrogen gas is collected from the hydrogen outlet.