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APRIL 13, 2020

A 27-tonne hydrogen fuel cell rigid truck built by VDL started its first demonstration with BREYTNER as part of the EU-funded H2-Share project in Schelluinen, the Netherlands. Wystrach GmbH built a low-energy mobile hydrogen refueler to accompany the truck on its demonstration sites. This hydrogen truck is unique in the Benelux.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2019

Canadian researchers have developed a large-scale economical method to extract hydrogen from oil sands (natural bitumen) and oil fields. This can be used to power hydrogen-powered vehicles, which are already marketed in some countries, as well as to generate electricity. Proton Technologies is commercializing the process.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

INEOS will invest more than €2 billion into electrolysis projects to make zero-carbon, green hydrogen across Europe. Its first plants will be built in Norway, Germany, and Belgium with investment also planned in the UK and France. The business also has extensive experience in the storage and handling of hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Master Van H2-TECH is equipped with a 30kW fuel cell, a 33kWh battery and tanks containing 6kg of hydrogen (4 tanks of 1.5 The Master Van is produced in France, at Renault’s Batilly plant. Electric and hydrogen integration is realized by PVI, a Renault Group subsidiary in Gretz-Armainvilliers. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 9, 2019

France-based global energy generator EDF has launched Hynamics , a new subsidiary for the Group that will be responsible for offering effective low-carbon hydrogen for industry and mobility. EDF’s ambition is to become a key player in the hydrogen sector in France and around the world.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2019

Bloom Energy, a developer of solid oxide fuel cell power generators, announced the ability of its Energy Servers to operate on renewable hydrogen. In areas with large amounts of wind and solar power, excess renewables can be used to produce hydrogen from water via electrolysis.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Alstom and the Province of Groningen, local operator Arriva, the Dutch railway infrastructure manager ProRail and the energy company Engie have signed plans for a pilot project to test the Coradia iLint, a passenger train powered by hydrogen fuel cells ( earlier post ), for the first time in the Netherlands.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Governments need to move faster and more decisively on a wide range of policy measures to enable low-carbon hydrogen to fulfil its potential to help the world reach net zero emissions while supporting energy security, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says in a new report. —Fatih Birol, the IEA Executive Director.

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APRIL 13, 2017

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recaptured the record for highest efficiency in solar hydrogen production via a photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting process. Structure of an IMM photocathode configured for water splitting with TEM cross-section of the active layers.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

Alstom and Eversholt Rail have unveiled the design of a new hydrogen train for the UK market. This proven and reliable Class 321 is an excellent fit in terms of characteristics, fleet size and availability for conversion to a Hydrogen Multiple Unit (HMU). These trains could run across the UK as early as 2022.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

McPhy Energy, a France-based developer and manufacturer of solid state hydrogen storage, presented the first system coupling an industrial-scale hydrogen generator with a 100 kg solid state hydrogen storage unit. The demonstrator can produce 12m 3 of hydrogen per hour. ENERTRAG and wind-hydrogen solutions.

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JULY 30, 2018

The project aims to build and demonstrate a 27-ton rigid hydrogen fuel cell truck along with a mobile refueler. H2-Share stands for Hydrogen Solutions for Heavy-duty transport Aimed at Reduction of Emissions in North West Europe. The goal is to test the truck at six locations in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2018

Van Hool, the Belgium-based independent bus, coach and industrial vehicles manufacturer, has landed a significant contract with RVK Köln and WSW Wuppertal (Germany), to supply 40 hydrogen buses of the latest generation. kg of hydrogen on board, will be able to carry out a full day’s schedule of 350 km (217 miles).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

For several months now, 20 teams of Australian high-school students have been designing fuel-cell cars to compete in the country’s inaugural Hydrogen Grand Prix. The task: make the most of a 30-watt fuel cell and 14 grams of hydrogen gas. Welcome to Australia, where a green-hydrogen boom is in full swing.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

They are highly automated production islands that directly convert wind energy to hydrogen, with a few of them processing the gas into fuels and other goods. In these clusters, the wind turbines are integrated with electrolyzers that generate hydrogen from desalinated seawater. US $5 PER KILOGRAM Cost of green hydrogen today.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2018

All are invited to submit, from 25 June to 20 September, innovative scientific research projects using Essential Small Molecules on these topics: Topic #01 on hydrogen production: “Lower-CO 2 H 2 ”. How to produce cost competitive hydrogen while reducing greenhouse gas emissions?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

AREVA and Schneider Electric have signed a strategic partnership agreement to develop energy management and storage solutions based on hydrogen fuel cell technology. This is used to store hydrogen and oxygen from water electrolysis during periods of low energy demand in order to produce electricity during peak consumption periods.

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MAY 28, 2014

AREVA, Smart Energies through its subsidiary CETH 2 , and the ADEME (French Environment and Energy Management Agency) have created a joint venture—AREVA H 2 -Gen—to manufacture Proton Exchange Membranes (PEM) for the production of hydrogen from water and electricity.

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MAY 27, 2015

Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and hydrogen-based power modules, signed a 10-year exclusive agreement to supply Alstom Transport with hydrogen fuel cell systems for Regional Commuter Trains in Europe. The power module does not require onboard water for humidification.

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JULY 2, 2015

During a driving event at the Miramas proving grounds in southern France, BMW presented future drive technologies, including the prototype of a BMW 2 Series Active Tourer with plug-in hybrid drive. BMW Group, Innovation Days Efficient Dynamics 2015: Hydrogen Fuel Cell eDrive Technology. Direct water injection. Earlier post.).

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JULY 9, 2010

Concept of the Hydrogen Harvester. a developer of technologies for algae cultivation and extraction ( earlier post ), says it is developing a new technology to harvest hydrogen from living photosynthetic algae, providing an additional energy source from bioreactors. Click to enlarge. Brian Goodall.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The French company McPhy Energy, specializing in hydrogen-based solutions for industrial and energy storage, and the Italian De Nora group, a provider of electrochemical products and services, announced a technology partnership agreement. McPhy Energy was founded in France in 2008.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

CADO completely converts wet ethanol (and other alcohols) into targeted hydrocarbons in a simple reactor system at moderate temperatures and near atmospheric pressure without adding hydrogen.

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JULY 19, 2022

Airbus and a number of major airlines—Air Canada, Air France-KLM, easyJet, International Airlines Group, LATAM Airlines Group, Lufthansa Group and Virgin Atlantic—have signed Letters of Intent (LoI) to explore opportunities for a future supply of carbon removal credits from direct air carbon capture technology.

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MARCH 28, 2010

ammonia, methanol, hydrogen, synthetic fuel) and IGCC plants with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), where hydrogen-rich syngases are required. The project includes the construction and operation of two pilot plants in France to produce biodiesel and biokerosene based on biomass gasification using Uhde’s PRENFLO-PDQ process.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

An international team of scientists from the UK, Germany and France have discovered how oxygen stops photosynthetic organisms such as green algae from producing hydrogen. The findings could help advance development of the microbial production of hydrogen from sunlight and water. Professor Armstrong.

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JUNE 12, 2023

A study led by Norwegian climate center CICERO has found that the global warming effect of leaked hydrogen is almost 12 times stronger than that of CO 2. Unlike exhaust from burning coal and gas that contains CO 2 , burning hydrogen emits only water vapor and oxygen. Hydrogen interacts with various biogeochemical processes.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

million) award from Europe’s Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) and will run for three years. The GDLs also aid water vapor reaching the membrane (thereby increasing ionic conductivity) and also facilitate the removal of produced water. Earlier post.). Gerd Wingefeld, Chief Technology Officer at SGL Group.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 7, 2015

Electric cars and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles may get a lot of attention, but every carmaker is still searching for ways to improve the fuel efficiency of internal-combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Under the terms of the agreement IFPEN would continue the development of the process at its facilities in France. Its oxygen content is substantially reduced so that any further hydrogen requirements related to post-treatment in a refinery are strongly decreased to a level suitable with conventional petroleum product upgrading processes.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

Hedging its bets, the industry is exploring ammonia, batteries, and hydrogen, among other options for powering ships. It was in service from 1962 to 1972, but its pressurized light-water reactor (LWR) proved too complex and expensive for the ship to operate profitably. million (an eye-popping $495 million today).

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Last December, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility finally succeeded in forcing the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium to undergo a self-sustained fusion reaction. There’s also a lot to learn from Iter , the world’s largest fusion experiment, which is now being built in southern France.

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APRIL 29, 2010

This field is located at a water depth of 2,200 meters in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, approximately 300 kilometers offshore the Brazilian coast, and has estimated potential of 5 to 8 billion barrels of recoverable light oil and natural gas. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 21, 2015

A pilot plant in Dresden has started production of the synthetic fuel Audi e-diesel using water, CO 2 and green power—i.e., Production of Audi e‑diesel involves a series of steps: Water heated to form steam is broken down into hydrogen and oxygen by means of high-temperature electrolysis. power-to-liquid (PtL).

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JANUARY 4, 2016

Global Bioenergies had produced isobutene using its pilot plant located on the agri-business site of Pomacle, France. However, Global Bioenergies’s current production pathway for bio-isobutene—fermenting sugars derived from starch or biomass—doesn’t mesh with Audi’s ideal e-fuels criteria: water, CO 2 and renewable energy.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

CatLiq converts biomass and organic wastes in water at near or supercritical conditions (280-350 °C and 180-250 bar). In addition to the bio-oil/methane products, the process can be tuned to produce hydrogen and water soluble fuels such as methanol, ethanol or acetaldehyde. The oxygen content of the CatLiq bio-oil is 2-12%.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

MIT researchers have found a new family of highly active catalyst materials that provides the best performance yet in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrochemical water-splitting—a key requirement for energy storage and delivery systems such as advanced fuel cells and lithium-air batteries. Earlier post.) —Grimaud et al.

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