Gas, Hydrogen, Presentations and Water

MAN presents hydrogen roadmap; use in fuel cells and combustion engines

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Apart from the rapid development of battery technology, hydrogen is a good complementary option as an alternative fuel for long-distance transport. When in use, fuel cells do not cause any climate-damaging emissions, as they only emit water vapor. The aim is to test the entire hydrogen ecosystem in transport logistics.

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Hydrogen Engine Fuel Transportation

GE Gas Power and Shell to collaborate on LNG decarbonization pathway using hydrogen

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

GE Gas Power and Shell Global Solutions, a pioneer in liquefied natural gas (LNG) for more than 50 years, have signed a development agreement to pursue potential pathways aiming to reduce the carbon intensity of Shell’s LNG supply projects around the world. However, the source and nature of this fuel matters as well.

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Hydrogen Gas Powered Power

Airbus developing hydrogen fuel cell engine

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Airbus is developing a hydrogen-powered fuel cell engine. The A380 MSN1 flight test aircraft for new hydrogen technologies is currently being modified to carry liquid hydrogen tanks and their associated distribution systems. There are two ways hydrogen can be used as a power source for aircraft propulsion.

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Hydrogen Engine Fuel Concept

Novel inexpensive cobalt-nickel electrode for efficient water and urea electrolysis; yolk-shell nanoparticles

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Electrolytic hydrogen production powered by renewable energy is seen as an environmentally friendly means to ameliorate global climate and energy problems. Both half reactions of water electrolysis—hydrogen and oxygen evolution—are unfortunately slow and require a lot of power. Zhang, S.L., and Lou, X.W.

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Water Hydrogen Singapore Universal

bp to explore potential for green hydrogen production in Egypt

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

bp signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Egypt under which bp will explore the potential for establishing a new green hydrogen production facility in the country. Green hydrogen is produced by the electrolysis of water, powered by renewable energy.

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Egypt Hydrogen Green Production

Toyota and DIFFER partner on direct solar production of hydrogen from humid air, rather than water

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research ( DIFFER ) is partnering with Toyota Motor Europe (TME) to develop a device that absorbs water vapor, and splits it into hydrogen and oxygen directly using solar energy. In this project, DIFFER and TME are exploring an innovative way to produce hydrogen directly out of humid air.

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Water Hydrogen Solar Toyota

Interest in geologic hydrogen growing

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Free hydrogen in nature—i.e., the natural formation and storage of molecular hydrogen—is widely thought to be rare. However, as interest in hydrogen as a needed zero-carbon fuel grows, so is interest in the potential for geologic hydrogen as a primary resource.

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Hydrogen 2020 Water Environment

NETL publishes review of safety challenges of production, transportation and storage of hydrogen

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AUGUST 23, 2023

The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has published The Hydrogen Safety Review for Gas Turbines, SOFC, and High Temperature Hydrogen Production to review and summarize the unique safety challenges involved with the production, transportation and storage of hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Transportation Production Waste

BMW launching iX5 Hydrogen pilot fleet

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The BMW Group presented the first BMW iX5 Hydrogen vehicles in a pilot fleet that will go into service this year. This active driving experience will therefore be the first chance for people not involved in the development process to gain a direct impression of what the BMW iX5 Hydrogen has to offer.

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BMW Hydrogen Fleet Lithium Ion

Researchers develop large-scale, economical method to extract hydrogen from oil sands and oil fields

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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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Oil-Sands Oil Hydrogen Venezuela

UNSW team develops algorithm that enhances images of hydrogen fuel cells significantly

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FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The new process, detailed in an open-access paper in Nature Communications , has been tested on individual hydrogen fuel cells to model the interior accurately in precise detail and potentially improve their efficiency. Top: 3D X-ray scan of a hydrogen fuel cell, showing carbon paper weaves, membrane and catalysts (in black).

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Hydrogen Fuel Water Gas

Hydro-Québec will support the clean hydrogen sector in Québec

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DECEMBER 8, 2019

Decarbonizing the economy to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is one of the company’s priorities. In addition to having access to Québec’s vast water resources to generate green, renewable power at competitive prices, Hydro-Québec has everything it needs to support the development of green hydrogen. Renewable natural gas.

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Hydrogen Clean Cleaning Gas-Electric

ROSATOM, Metalloinvest and Air Liquide to evaluate joint project in low-carbon hydrogen production for DRI

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JUNE 21, 2021

As part of the joint work, the parties plan to evaluate the technical and commercial aspects of a potential project for the production of environmentally friendly hydrogen for Metalloinvest factories located in Belgorod and Kursk regions. Metalloinvest is already looking at modernizing equipment to use up to 30% hydrogen as a reducing gas.

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Hydrogen Carbon Production Russia

Graz researchers develop cost-effective chemical looping process for decentralized production of high-purity hydrogen

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MAY 28, 2020

Hydrogen researchers at Graz University of Technology (Austria), together with the Graz-based start-up Rouge H2 Engineering , have developed a cost-effective process for the decentralized production of high-purity hydrogen using chemical looping. Both the transportation and the storage contribute considerably to the hydrogen price.

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Hydrogen Production Store Gas-Electric

Researchers produce hydrogen from water and charcoal mix at room temperature using laser pulses

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AUGUST 30, 2013

Researchers at Wakayama University in Japan have produced a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide gas by irradiating a mixture of carbon powder and distilled water with intense nanosecond laser pulses at room temperature. Electrodes or any other photocatalysts were not used to produce the hydrogen. mL volume of water.

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Water Hydrogen Carbon Gas

Nacero selects Topsoe’s TIGAS technology for gas-to-gasoline unit; reducing lifecycle carbon footprint up to 50%

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APRIL 23, 2021

Nacero has licensed Topsoe TIGAS (Topsoe Improved Gasoline Synthesis) technology for its multi-billion USD natural-gas-to-gasoline facility in Penwell, Texas to produce 100,000 barrels per day of gasoline component ready for blending into US commercial grades. The Penwell facility will also produce ‘blue’ hydrogen.

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Gasoline Turkmenistan Gas Carbon

Repsol produces renewable hydrogen from biomethane from urban solid waste

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Spain-based energy and petrochemical company Repsol has produced renewable hydrogen using biomethane as raw material for the first time. This renewable hydrogen was used to manufacture fuels with a low carbon footprint, such as gasoline, diesel, or kerosene for aviation. Repsol has had a circular economy strategy in place since 2018.

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Waste Renewable Hydrogen Spain

Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas partner for regional hydrogen hub to compete for IIJA funding

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MARCH 17, 2022

The US states of Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas have entered into a bipartisan three-state partnership to establish a regional hub for development, production, and use of clean hydrogen as fuel and manufacturing feedstock.

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Arkansas Oklahoma Louisiana Hydrogen

KIST team develops membrane reactor system to produce pure H2 from ammonia with high productivity

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Steam is adopted as a sweep gas, presenting efficient H 2 recovery (>91%) while replacing conventionally utilized noble carrier gases that require additional gas separation processes. Hydrogen gas, however, cannot be transported in large amounts due to the limitations in the amount that can be stored per unit volume.

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Production Hydrogen Gas-Electric Low Cost

BNEF report finds hydrogen promising decarbonization pathway, but carbon prices and emissions policies required

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MARCH 31, 2020

The falling cost of making hydrogen from wind and solar power offers a promising route to cutting emissions in some of the most fossil-fuel-dependent sectors of the economy, such as steel, heavy-duty vehicles, shipping and cement, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF). Summary of the economics of a hydrogen economy.

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Hydrogen Carbon Emissions Price

New catalysts enable photocatalytic version of water gas shift reaction for H2 production

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JUNE 18, 2013

Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) have found that noble metal nanoparticles supported on titanium dioxide or cerium dioxide can catalyze the industrially important water gas shift (WGS) reaction for hydrogen production at ambient temperatures using visible light irradiation. —Sastre et al.

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Water Gas Production Conversion

Stanford researchers develop new electrolysis system to split seawater into hydrogen and oxygen

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MARCH 19, 2019

A Stanford-led team has developed a new electrolysis system to split seawater in hydrogen and oxygen. Existing water-splitting methods rely on highly purified water—a precious resource and costly to produce. Electrolysis of water to generate hydrogen fuel is an attractive renewable energy storage technology.

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Hydrogen Ni-Li Water San Francisco

Oxford team directly converts CO2 to jet fuel using iron-based catalysts

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

The catalyst shows a carbon dioxide conversion through hydrogenation to hydrocarbons in the aviation jet fuel range of 38.2%, with a yield of 17.2%, and a selectivity of 47.8%, and with an attendant low carbon monoxide (5.6%) and methane selectivity (10.4%). Fe 5 C 2 by CO 2 /water in the first hours of the catalytic reaction.

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Convert Fuel CO2 Conversion

Nel ASA receives purchase order for 20MW alkaline electrolyzer from steelmaker Ovako

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser AS, a division of Nel ASA, has received a purchase order for a 20MW alkaline water electrolyzer from Ovako , a leading European manufacturer of engineering steel. The fossil-free hydrogen will replace the use of fossil propane gas currently used in the heating furnaces.

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Purchase Hydrogen Sweden Volvo

Fincantieri and Enel Green Power Italia to explore use of green hydrogen in ports and long-range maritime transport

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AUGUST 7, 2021

Fincantieri and Enel Green Power Italia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to define an integrated solution for the production, supply, management and use of green hydrogen for port areas and long-range maritime transport.

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Green Hydrogen Transportation Power

Duke study: serpentinized rock in oceans may be large, overlooked source of free hydrogen gas

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JULY 21, 2016

Rocks formed beneath the ocean floor by fast-spreading tectonic plates may be a large and previously overlooked source of free hydrogen gas, a new Duke University study suggests. The Duke researchers presented a simple model that suggests that H 2 production rates along the mid-oceanic ridge alone (i.e., —Stacey L.

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Hydrogen Gas Austin Water

Empa and partners exploring DME as fuel with new heavy-duty test engine

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

An electrically driven compressor for precise exhaust gas recirculation is also used. This leads to a significantly more compact and cost efficient exhaust gas aftertreatment system, even for future extremely strict pollutant emission limits. This is done via exhaust gas recirculation (EGR). Water is formed as a by-product.

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Engine Fuel Exhaust Gas-Electric

Researchers develop free-standing nanowire mesh for direct solar water-splitting to produce H2; new design for “artificial leaf”

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DECEMBER 3, 2014

The mesh with BiVO 4 nanowire photoanode for water oxidation and Rh-SrTiO 3 nanowire photocathode for water reduction produces hydrogen gas without an electron mediator. an “artificial leaf” to produce hydrogen—based on a nanowire mesh that lends itself to large-scale, low-cost production. Click to enlarge.

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Water Solar Design Singapore

Nouryon, Tata Steel, Port of Amsterdam to study feasibility of largest green H2 cluster in Europe; 100 MW water electrolysis facility

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OCTOBER 20, 2018

Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals), Tata Steel and the Port of Amsterdam have joined together to study the feasibility of a large green hydrogen cluster in the Amsterdam region. The three parties consider green hydrogen as vital for reaching climate targets and building a more circular economy—e.g.,

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Water Green Hydrogen Europe

Neste to receive €88M from EU toward green hydrogen and carbon capture & storage at Porvoo; SHARC

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The EU Innovation Fund will award a grant of €88 million to Neste’s green hydrogen and CO 2 capture & storage project, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the Porvoo refinery in Finland. SHARC will also scale the production of green hydrogen to help make it a viable transportation fuel itself.

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Hydrogen Carbon Green Tango

Fusion Fuel Green partners with CCC to develop green hydrogen demonstrator plants in Middle East

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MAY 13, 2021

Offshore) (CCC), to develop green hydrogen plants in the Middle East. CCC and Fusion Fuel have agreed to cooperate on projects involving the production of green hydrogen for potential clients in the refining and petrochemical industries in order to reduce their carbon footprint. Many more will follow.

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Fusion Green Hydrogen Oman

New system for more efficient CO2 electrolysis to hydrocarbon products

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FEBRUARY 15, 2020

The researchers combined a copper electrocatalyst with an ionomer [polymers that conduct ions and water] assembly that intersperses sulfonate-lined paths for the H 2 O with fluorocarbon channels for the CO 2. Here, we present a catalyst:ionomer bulk heterojunction (CIBH) architecture that decouples gas, ion, and electron transport.

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CO2 Production Polymer Water

DLR team integrates solar heat into solid oxide electrolyzer for highly efficient hydrogen production

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Experimental setup of the solar heated solid oxide electrolyzer system for hydrogen production. Water electrolysis is considered as a promising pathway for the production of sustainable hydrogen to be used as such an energy carrier. Thermodynamics of the water splitting reaction as a function of temperature.

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Solar Hydrogen Production Water

New highly efficient catalyst for photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction toward methane

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JANUARY 15, 2020

The work, presented in a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), offers a unique, highly efficient, and inexpensive route for solar fuels synthesis. Thirty percent of the energy in the US comes from natural gas. Likewise, H 2 O must be broken down to attach the hydrogen to the carbon.

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CO2 Carbon Solar Hydrogen

McPhy Energy premieres first industrial system coupling electrolysis and solid state hydrogen storage

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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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Hydrogen Industry Industrial Energy

HZB, 3M team explores water management in PFIA membranes for fuel cells; better performance at higher temps and low humidity

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JANUARY 2, 2017

A core component of proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells is the membrane, which allows protons to diffuse selectively towards the cathode while blocking the oxygen and hydrogen gas. Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) teamed up with 3M to explore the water management in PFIA membranes. Credit: Heike Cords/HZB.

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Water Fuel Hydrogen Low Cost

Audi expanding e-gas capacity through partnership with Viessmann; power-to-gas with biological methanation of CO2 and H2

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FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Audi is expanding capacities for the production of sustainably produced e-gas. Audi e-gas is currently produced using two process steps: electrolysis and methanation. Audi e-gas is currently produced using two process steps: electrolysis and methanation. We are writing the next chapter of the Audi e-gas story here.

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Audi Gas Powered Power

Audi to introduce natural gas A3 Sportback g-tron at year’s end; CO2-neutral e-gas

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MARCH 1, 2013

Audi will introduce the compact A3 Sportback g-tron—which can be powered by the CO 2 -neutral Audi e-gas, synthetic methane generated from eco-electricity in the Audi e-gas project ( earlier post )—at the end of the year. The e-gas fuel will be produced in the power-to-gas plant in Werlte, Germany.

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Audi Gas CO2 Gas-Electric

UC Santa Barbara team develops catalytic molten metals for direct conversion of methane to hydrogen without forming CO2

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara have developed catalytic molten metals to pyrolize methane to release hydrogen and to form solid carbon. meter bubble column and produced pure hydrogen without CO 2 or other by-products. Hydrogen production with a Ni-Bi molten catalyst. (A) Metallic catalysts (e.g.,

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Conversion Hydrogen CO2 Carbon

Borla Performance Industries developing muffler/membrane unit for exhaust water extraction with ORNL nanopore membrane technology

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Borla will combine this with its diesel exhaust technology to create a low-cost, novel system that doubles as a device to extract potable water from diesel and other internal combustion exhaust. The heat recovered could serve to preheat boiler feed water, thus providing an energy savings.

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Exhaust Water Industry Industrial

France’s IFPEN studying industrial potential of onshore sources of natural hydrogen

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APRIL 18, 2013

IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) has become one of the first global research centers actively to investigate onshore natural hydrogen emissions after the discovery of offshore sources of the gas in the 1970s. Currently, hydrogen is considered a carrier of energy rather than a source—i.e.,

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Hydrogen Industry Industrial Water

DOE reports progress on development of low-carbon and renewable sources of hydrogen production

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office’ (FCTO) 2014 Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Progress Report ( earlier post )—an annual summary of results from projects funded by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program—described progress in the field of hydrogen production. Source: DOE.

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Hydrogen Renewable Carbon Production

Audi introduces new A4 Avant g-tron; Audi e-gas offered as standard

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MARCH 7, 2017

Audi has introduced the natural-gas-fueled A4 Avant g-tron; dealers in Europe will begin taking orders for the midsize model starting in early summer 2017. Additionally, Audi is now offering e-gas to power the A3 Sportback g-tron as standard; customers will pay only the regular natural gas price. lb-ft) is available at approx.

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Audi Gas Standards Gas-Electric

DOE report highlights opportunities of hybrid energy systems

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APRIL 30, 2021

HES present an opportunity to optimize power plant designs to maximize the services that are useful to and valued by the electric and broader energy systems. using electrical or thermal energy to produce hydrogen from water or a methane source). They can vary in terms of their subcomponents, linkages (e.g.,

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Energy Hybrid Grid Idaho

MAN presents hydrogen roadmap; use in fuel cells and combustion engines

GE Gas Power and Shell to collaborate on LNG decarbonization pathway using hydrogen

Airbus developing hydrogen fuel cell engine

Novel inexpensive cobalt-nickel electrode for efficient water and urea electrolysis; yolk-shell nanoparticles

bp to explore potential for green hydrogen production in Egypt

Toyota and DIFFER partner on direct solar production of hydrogen from humid air, rather than water

Interest in geologic hydrogen growing

NETL publishes review of safety challenges of production, transportation and storage of hydrogen

BMW launching iX5 Hydrogen pilot fleet

Researchers develop large-scale, economical method to extract hydrogen from oil sands and oil fields

UNSW team develops algorithm that enhances images of hydrogen fuel cells significantly

Hydro-Québec will support the clean hydrogen sector in Québec

ROSATOM, Metalloinvest and Air Liquide to evaluate joint project in low-carbon hydrogen production for DRI

Graz researchers develop cost-effective chemical looping process for decentralized production of high-purity hydrogen

Researchers produce hydrogen from water and charcoal mix at room temperature using laser pulses

Nacero selects Topsoe’s TIGAS technology for gas-to-gasoline unit; reducing lifecycle carbon footprint up to 50%

Repsol produces renewable hydrogen from biomethane from urban solid waste

Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas partner for regional hydrogen hub to compete for IIJA funding

KIST team develops membrane reactor system to produce pure H2 from ammonia with high productivity

BNEF report finds hydrogen promising decarbonization pathway, but carbon prices and emissions policies required

New catalysts enable photocatalytic version of water gas shift reaction for H2 production

Stanford researchers develop new electrolysis system to split seawater into hydrogen and oxygen

Oxford team directly converts CO2 to jet fuel using iron-based catalysts

Nel ASA receives purchase order for 20MW alkaline electrolyzer from steelmaker Ovako

Fincantieri and Enel Green Power Italia to explore use of green hydrogen in ports and long-range maritime transport

Duke study: serpentinized rock in oceans may be large, overlooked source of free hydrogen gas

Empa and partners exploring DME as fuel with new heavy-duty test engine

Researchers develop free-standing nanowire mesh for direct solar water-splitting to produce H2; new design for “artificial leaf”

Nouryon, Tata Steel, Port of Amsterdam to study feasibility of largest green H2 cluster in Europe; 100 MW water electrolysis facility

Neste to receive €88M from EU toward green hydrogen and carbon capture & storage at Porvoo; SHARC

Fusion Fuel Green partners with CCC to develop green hydrogen demonstrator plants in Middle East

New system for more efficient CO2 electrolysis to hydrocarbon products

DLR team integrates solar heat into solid oxide electrolyzer for highly efficient hydrogen production

New highly efficient catalyst for photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction toward methane

McPhy Energy premieres first industrial system coupling electrolysis and solid state hydrogen storage

HZB, 3M team explores water management in PFIA membranes for fuel cells; better performance at higher temps and low humidity

Audi expanding e-gas capacity through partnership with Viessmann; power-to-gas with biological methanation of CO2 and H2

Audi to introduce natural gas A3 Sportback g-tron at year’s end; CO2-neutral e-gas

UC Santa Barbara team develops catalytic molten metals for direct conversion of methane to hydrogen without forming CO2

Borla Performance Industries developing muffler/membrane unit for exhaust water extraction with ORNL nanopore membrane technology

France’s IFPEN studying industrial potential of onshore sources of natural hydrogen

DOE reports progress on development of low-carbon and renewable sources of hydrogen production

Audi introduces new A4 Avant g-tron; Audi e-gas offered as standard

DOE report highlights opportunities of hybrid energy systems

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