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The project is supported by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The project partners will generate zero-carbon hydrogen onsite via electrolysis with solar and wind power and reformation of renewable natural gas from a Texas landfill.
ENGIE has taken the Final Investment Decision in the development of one of the world’s first industrial-scale renewablehydrogen projects, to be located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Yuri roadmap. As announced in 2021, the Yuri project is being developed with the support of a $47.5-million
The Gold Hydrogen Program , a coalition of organizations seeking to support the scale of this clean energy resource, announced its launch and the debut of a pilot microbial Gold Hydrogen Process. Found naturally deep in the Earth, “gold hydrogen” is a resource that is produced biologically and in the subsurface.
million for the next phase of Gigastack, a new renewablehydrogen project, as part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Hydrogen Supply Competition. Producing hydrogen has traditionally been associated with high carbon emissions, but by using renewable electricity—e.g.,
Cemvita Factory announced multiple developments with its Gold Hydrogen business. Cemvita defines Gold Hydrogen as the biological production of hydrogen in the subsurface through the consumption of trapped or abandoned resources. The hydrogen production in this trial exceeded our expectations. billion in 2020.
ABB and Canada-based Hydrogen Optimized have signed an agreement to expand the companies’ existing strategic relationship. KEY), the parent company of HOI, as they seek to accelerate the fast-emerging green hydrogen production segment with unique large-scale architecture. This includes an investment by ABB into Key DH Technologies Inc.
NuScale Power, along with Shell Global Solutions (Shell) and industry participants will develop and assess a concept for an economically optimized Integrated Energy System (IES) for hydrogen production using electricity and process heat from a NuScale VOYGR small modular reactor (SMR) power plant.
bp and the Ministry of Energy and Minerals in Oman signed a Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) and a Renewables Data Collection Agreement which will support the potential development of a multiple gigawatt, world-class renewable energy and green hydrogen development in Oman by 2030.
The California Energy Commission has released a UC Irvine roadmap for the buildout and deployment of renewablehydrogen production plants in California to support policy decisions and inform stakeholders. The roadmap effort developed several scenarios for the growth in renewablehydrogen demand through 2050.
Chevron USA kicked off a road trip across the US Gulf Coast to showcase an innovative new gasoline blend with more than 50% renewable content. During the tour, Chevron representatives will talk with members of the public about the benefits of lower carbon fuels such as biofuels and renewable gasoline blend.
Perovskite materials may hold the potential to play an important role in a process to produce hydrogen in a renewable manner, according to an analysis from scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Electrolysis needs electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University have used a gallium, indium, tin and bismuth alloy to generate hydrogen, when placed in contact with an aluminum plate immersed in water. The hydrogen is then used in a PEM fuel cell. Hydrolysis of active metals is a widely known hydrogen production approach.
Researchers at Monash University in Australia have conducted a lifecycle analysis and net energy analysis (LCA/NEA) of a hypothetical large-scale solar-electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen. of hydrogen is currently produced via water electrolysis and only a fraction of this production is powered by renewable energy.
While there is global potential to generate renewable energy at costs already competitive with fossil fuels, a means of storing and transporting this energy at a very large scale is a roadblock to large-scale investment, development and deployment. Generation 2 moves the Haber-Bosch process to renewable sources of hydrogen.
Ørsted, the world’s leading offshore wind developer, together with the major industrial companies in the North Sea Port cluster, have launched the SeaH2Land vision for a gigawatt scale project to reduce carbon emissions in the Dutch-Flemish industrial cluster with renewablehydrogen.
In an open-access paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers report that the catalyst can cleanly and efficiently accelerate the reaction that removes hydrogen atoms from a liquid chemical carrier such as methanol. Credit: Jeff Urban/Berkeley Lab).
The European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) published a policy brief showing that delivery of large amounts of renewablehydrogen over long distances could be cost-effective. For its transport, hydrogen is either compressed, liquefied or converted into a hydrogen carrier such as ammonia or liquid organic hydrogen carriers.
China-based Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC) reported successful testing of non-desalinated seawater electrolysis technology for hydrogen production powered by offshore wind. The floating hydrogen production platform Dongfu One is sited in an offshore wind farm in East China’s Fujian province. Resources Xie, H.,
EPFL researchers have built a pilot-scale solar reactor that produces usable heat and oxygen, in addition to generating hydrogen with unprecedented efficiency for its size. This is the first system-level demonstration of solar hydrogen generation. Holmes-Gentle et al.
kWh/kg hydrogen (vs. With this level of cell energy efficiency—well above International Renewable Energy Agency’s (IRENA) 2050 target and significantly better than existing electrolyzer technologies—hydrogen production cost could be well below US$1.50/kg. 2 and 85 °C of only 1.51 —Gerry Swiegers. Hoang, A.L.,
With efficiencies above 90%, Topsoe’s proprietary SOEC electrolyzers offer superior performance in electrolysis of water into hydrogen—e.g., SOECs can be used for direct electrochemical conversion of steam (H 2 O), carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), or both into hydrogen (H 2 ), carbon monoxide (CO), or syngas (H 2 +CO), respectively.
On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has opened the $70-million RenewableHydrogen Deployment Funding Round to help fast track the development of renewablehydrogen in Australia. These projects will be expected to be among the largest electrolyzers in the world.
Solid-oxide-fuel-cell manufacturer Bloom Energy is entering the commercial hydrogen market by introducing hydrogen-powered fuel cells and electrolyzers that produce renewablehydrogen. Bloom’s technologies can be critical in enabling South Korea to execute on its government-mandated Hydrogen Economy Roadmap.
million) to five demonstration phase projects for low-carbon hydrogen production. The hydrogen projects receiving funding are: Dolphyn. Led by Environmental Resources Management Limited (ERM). The project concerns the production of hydrogen at scale from offshore floating wind in deep water locations. Contract value: £7.5
Ammonia has recently emerged as a liquid storage and transport medium that has shown promising stability for long-distance hydrogen transport. At 108 kg H 2 /m 3 , liquefied ammonia (NH 3 ) can store 50% more hydrogen than liquid hydrogen. Now, researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) led by Drs.
Researchers from Japan’s NIMS (National Institute for Materials Science), the University of Tokyo and Hiroshima University have jointly conducted a techno-economic analysis for hydrogen production from photovoltaic power generation (PV) utilizing a battery-assisted electrolyzer. This approximately converts to US$1.92 to US$3.00/kg
Michigan and DOE will also work to develop emerging hydrogen infrastructure technologies and grow the domestic supply chain. DOE’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office focuses on advancing an innovative portfolio of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies through early-stage applied research and technology development.
GCxN provides promising cleantech startups with technical resources to accelerate product commercialization while de-risking investment. Applications include green hydrogen production, hydrogen fuel cells and carbon capture and utilization (CCU).
Mitsubishi Power Americas and Texas Brine Company are collaborating to develop large-scale long-duration hydrogen storage solutions to support decarbonization efforts across the eastern United States. Long-duration hydrogen storage is a key enabling technology for the transition to a net zero carbon energy future.
Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and international collaborators used computational approaches, including explainable machine learning models, to elucidate new high-entropy alloys with attractive hydrogen storage properties and direct laboratory synthesis and validation. —Matthew Witman.
Hyzon Motors, a leading supplier of heavy-duty hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicles, announced a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Transform Materials, a provider of renewablehydrogen through its proprietary microwave reactor technology ( earlier post ).
Honda held a press briefing in Tokyo on its hydrogen business initiatives. Honda said that it will take a proactive approach to increase the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier and strive to expand its hydrogen business, in addition to continuing to electrify its products.
The design proved successful in generating hydrogen gas without producing large amounts of harmful byproducts. A representation of the team’s bipolar membrane system that converts seawater into hydrogen gas. The results of their study, published in Joule , could help advance efforts to produce low-carbon fuels.
Anglo American plc unveiled a prototype of the world’s largest hydrogen-powered mine haul truck designed to operate in everyday mining conditions at its Mogalakwena PGMs (platinum group metals) mine in South Africa. The hydrogen economy provides an opportunity to create new engines of economic activity. South Africa’s Hydrogen Valley.
DME is a hydrogen-rich molecule that can be produced from waste and/or renewableresources using Oberon’s modular production technology. Our novel approach to generating hydrogen flips the current model on its head. —Rebecca Boudreaux, Ph.D., President and CEO of Oberon Fuels. —Troy A. Semelsberger, Ph.D.,
Researchers at the University of Southampton have transformed optical fibers into photocatalytic microreactors that convert water into hydrogen fuel using solar energy. The microstructured optical fiber canes (MOFCs) with photocatalyst generate hydrogen that could power a wide range of sustainable applications. Potter, Daniel J.
Ørsted has taken final investment decision on the Danish demonstration project H2RES, which will use offshore wind energy to produce renewablehydrogen. The project is expected to produce its first hydrogen in late 2021 and will be Ørsted’s first renewablehydrogen project in operation. Earlier post.)
IHS Markit forecasts that annual global investments in green hydrogen—hydrogen production powered by renewable sources—will exceed US$1 billion by 2023. The increasing interest has been driven by falling electrolysis and renewable power costs and by increasing government focus on green hydrogen.
Researchers at the University of Melbourne (Australia) have demonstrated a method of direct hydrogen production from air— in situ capture of freshwater from the atmosphere using hygroscopic electrolyte and subsequent electrolysis powered by solar or wind with a current density up to 574 mA cm ?2. —Guo et al. Zavabeti, A.
Korea’s Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) have developed a novel process for the production of hydrogen using various types of biomass, including lignin, as an efficient alternative to water oxidation as an electron source. Schematic diagram of byproduct production and hydrogen evolution through lignin decomposition.
Air Products is a world-leading industrial gas company that produces and transports hydrogen and other essential industrial gases to many customer facilities in Louisiana, across the US Gulf Coast and around the world. The project will create 170 permanent jobs with a total annual payroll of $15.9
BC is the first province in Canada to release a comprehensive hydrogen strategy. Part of CleanBC , the BC Hydrogen Strategy includes 63 actions for government, industry and innovators to undertake during the short term (2020-25), medium term (2025-30) and long term (2030 and beyond).
Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to capture carbon dioxide using hydrogen gas to convert it into formic acid. coli, hydrogenating carbon dioxide into an organic acid,” said Dr. Sargent. “We Escherichia coli is gram-negative bacterium that is a workhorse for biotechnology.
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. It is intended that high-potential locations across Egypt will be considered as part of the feasibility study, targeting best-in-class resources.
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