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Mobility and more
Hydrogen also has the potential to play a significant role in power
generation and transportation. Air Liquide (www.airliquide.com),
Engie and the Durance, Luberon, Verdon urban area (DLVA) entered
into a partnership last month on a project that will develop the technological
and economic conditions for producing 1,300 GWh of
solar electricity together with the production of green hydrogen. The
ambitious plan anticipates eventual large quantities of green hydrogen
that could be produced for uses including energy, industry and
mobility applications.
Last year, Anheuser-Busch placed an order with Nikola Motor Co.
for up to 800 hydrogen-electric powered semi-trucks. The company
expects to start integrating the vehicles into its fleet beginning in 2020,
and to convert its full long-haul fleet to renewablepowered
trucks by 2025.
While hydrogen has received attention as a clean energy
source in the past, the current momentum fueled
by decarbonization goals and improved technologies
shows greater promise for realizing its potential. ■
Dorothy Lozowski, Editorial Director
1. IEA, The Future of Hydrogen: Seizing today's opportunities,
June 2019, www.iea.org.
2. Nel Hydrogen, Webinar presented on November 19, 2019 by
Dave Wolff, www.chemengonline.com/webinars.
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Pursuing the potential of hydrogen
H
ydrogen's potential for playing a significant role in the global
search for clean, secure energy sources is garnering much
attention from a growing number of industries and governments.
Driven by concerns about climate change, investors
as well as policy makers are pushing for aggressive carbon reductions.
As a fuel, hydrogen offers the advantage of producing no greenhouse
gases upon combustion. The bulk of the world's hydrogen
supply, however, is produced from fossil fuels and is currently being
used industrially mostly for the petroleum refining and fertilizer industries.
According to the International Energy Agency1 (IEA; www.iea.
org), the production of hydrogen generates about 830 million metric
tons per year of CO2 emissions. There is, however, a surge in projects
to create " green " hydrogen from water via electrolysis.
'Green' hydrogen
Renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar energy, or nuclear
power, can be used to generate hydrogen by electrolysis, making it an
attractive option for storing the variable output from these sources. According
to Dave Wolff, eastern region manager at Nel Hydrogen2 (www.nelhydrogen.com),
electrolysis equipment prices are dropping, and that combined
with decreasing costs of renewable energy makes the green route to
hydrogen more economically attractive than it has been in the past.
Last month, voestalpine AG (www.voestalpine.com) and partners
commenced operation of what is currently the world's largest pilot
plant for green hydrogen production in Linz, Austria, with a capacity
of over 6 MW. The project receives €18 million in E.U. funding and will
test whether the technology is suitable for industrial scale, as well as
the potential to compensate for fluctuations in the power grid.
In another project, Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH (www.salzgitter-ag.
com) is planning to build a 2.2-MW electrolysis plant, which is expected
to cover the company's entire hydrogen demand for steelmaking.
Seven wind turbines will generate the needed electric power.
The plant is due to start operations in the 4th quarter of 2020.
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