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ExxonMobil planning hydrogen production, carbon capture and storage at Baytown complex; 1B cfd of blue hydrogen

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/03/20220302-baytown.html


ExxonMobil is planning a hydrogen production plant and one of the world’s largest carbon capture and storage projects at its integrated refining and petrochemical site at Baytown, Texas, supporting efforts to reduce emissions from company operations and local industry. . . .

The Refinery has the capability to process up to 584,000 barrels of crude oil per day, making it the second-largest refinery in the US and one of the ten largest refineries globally.

The proposed hydrogen facility would produce up to 1 billion cubic feet per day of “blue” hydrogen—hydrogen produced from natural gas and supported by carbon capture and storage. The carbon capture infrastructure for this project would have the capacity to transport and store up to 10 million metric tons of CO2 per year, more than doubling ExxonMobil’s current capacity.

Using hydrogen as a fuel at the Baytown olefins plant could reduce the integrated complex’s Scope 1 and 2 CO2 emissions by up to 30%, supporting ExxonMobil’s ambition to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions from its operated assets by 2050.

The Baytown Olefins Plant, which began operations in 1979, is one of the largest ethylene plants in the world. In 2018, ExxonMobil completed the construction of a multi-billion dollar ethane cracker at the olefins plant, which has a capacity of 1.5 million tons per year.

Using hydrogen also would enable the site to manufacture lower-emissions products for its customers. Access to surplus hydrogen and CO2 storage capacity would be made available to nearby industry.

The project would form ExxonMobil’s initial contribution to a broad, cross-industry effort to establish a Houston carbon capture and storage hub with an initial target of about 50 million metric tons of CO2 per year by 2030, and 100 million metric tons by 2040. Evaluation and planning for the Baytown project are ongoing and, subject to stakeholder support, regulatory permitting and market conditions, a final investment decision is expected in two to three years.

ExxonMobil has extensive experience with hydrogen and already produces about 1.5 billion cubic feet per day. The company is uniquely positioned to participate in the growing hydrogen market and is evaluating strategic investments to increase the use of this important lower-emissions energy technology.

Equally important is the company’s more than 30 years of experience capturing and permanently storing CO2. ExxonMobil says that it has cumulatively captured more human-made CO2 than any other company and has an equity share of about one-fifth of the world’s carbon capture and storage capacity, which amounts to about 9 million metric tons per year. . . .
 
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MAN investing up to €500M in hydrogen production; scaling up H-TEC SYSTEMS

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/03/20220303-man.html


Over the next few years, MAN Energy Solutions will invest up to €500 million in its subsidiary H-TEC SYSTEMS to transform the hydrogen specialist into a mass-producer of PEM electrolyzers as quickly as possible.

Our plan is clear. We are transforming H-TEC SYSTEMS into one of the world’s leading players in the field of PEM electrolysis. Over the next five to ten years, green hydrogen will become one of the most important primary energy sources for the global economy as it continues to decarbonize. With PEM electrolysis, H-TEC SYSTEMS has mastered one of the most important processes for industrially scaled hydrogen production from renewable energy sources. The technology is mature and has already been placed on the market successfully. The next step is therefore to scale and set up highly automated serial production—and we would like to make rapid progress with this.

—Uwe Lauber, CEO of MAN Energy Solutions . . . .




Siemens Energy secures 50 MW electrolyzer order from European Energy for first large-scale eMethanol project

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/03/20220303-siemens.html


European Energy, a Danish developer and operator of green energy projects, has ordered a 50 MW electrolyzer from Siemens Energy for use in developing the first large-scale commercial e-Methanol production facility.

The plan is that the plant will be built in Kassø, located west of Aabenraa in the South of Denmark, near the German border. Through the nearby 300 MW solar park of Kassø, developed by European Energy, the project will have access to the low-cost renewable electricity needed to produce cost-effective e-Fuel. End users of the e-Methanol will be the shipping company Maersk and the fuel retailer Circle K among others.

The project secures the e-Methanol supply for Maersk’s first e-Methanol-driven container vessel, and thus demarks the starting point into CO2-neutral shipping in large-scale. Start of commercial methanol production is planned for second half of 2023.

Siemens Energy will design, supply and commission the electrolysis system consisting of three full arrays of its latest and most powerful line of PEM (proton exchange membrane) electrolysis products including transformers, rectifiers, distributed control system (DCS) plus the equipment to produce demineralized water.

European Energy is the owner of the project and will be responsible for the engineering, procurement and construction, as well as for the operation of the facility. . . .

The global shipping consumes around 3,050 terawatt hours (TWh) of the worldwide final energy consumption. For comparison: This is more than five times the total electricity consumption of Germany. As nearly all is based on fossil fuels, mainly bunker oil, the shipping sector emits about 1,000 million tons of CO2 per year, about 13% of the greenhouse gas emissions from global transport.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has already committed the shipping sector to halve greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 (based on 2008 level) to meet Paris Agreement targets. Measures are new logistics approaches, increased efficiency, speed/power reductions and—as the most effective pathway—the application of sustainable fuels, i.e. largely carbon-neutral electricity-based fuels (e-Fuels), for propulsion.
 
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ExxonMobil planning hydrogen production, carbon capture and storage at Baytown complex; 1B cfd of blue hydrogen

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/03/20220302-baytown.html

GRA - Any more details on how Exxon will use the Blue H2 as "fuels"? My guess it's by blending with the nat gas used in furnaces (of all types) and by changing burner systems, reducing the carbon content of their internal gas fuels systems - just a guess. IMO, it's a smart strategy for pragmatic reductions in "carbon", but for Exxon Baytown it depends on what the H2 is currently used for (usually hydrogenation reactions that are required for optimal fuels productions)
Mark
 
cwerdna said:
I finally saw a gen 2 Mirai in the wild the other day. I think this is my 1st sighting in wild.


I've seen or perhaps a more accurate description would be 'identified' two or three. Part of the problem is that the Mirai 2's looks are kind of "generic Japanese luxury sedan", so easy to overlook or mistake it for a Lexus/Infiniti/Acura. Whereas the Mirai 1's looks are, um, 'distinctive', to put it as politely as possible. I see one or more of the latter on almost a daily basis. It's impossible to miss them, much as I'd like to. :lol:
 
Lots of catching up to do, so expect several posts with links for the next few days. All GCC:

Honeywell develops new catalyst-coated membranes for more efficient and lower cost green hydrogen production

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/03/20220303-honeywell.html


. . . The new Honeywell technology focuses on CCMs for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolyzers and Anion Exchange Membrane (AEM) electrolyzers.

Honeywell’s latest CCMs have been shown in lab testing to enable higher electrolyzer efficiency and higher electric current density enabled by a breakthrough proprietary high ionic conductivity membrane and high activity catalyst. This is projected to provide a 25% reduction in electrolyzer stack cost, based on a PEM water electrolysis system using renewable power to produce 2,300 MT H2/y with 5,000 operating hours/y. . . .




BMW iX5 Hydrogen in final winter testing close to the Arctic Circle

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/03/20220311-ix5h2.html


The BMW iX5 Hydrogen (earlier post) is currently undergoing testing in extremely challenging winter weather conditions on public roads and at the BMW Group’s testing center in Arjeplog, northern Sweden. The integrated functional testing and validation of the fuel cell system, hydrogen tanks, peak power battery and central vehicle control unit have confirmed that this additional CO2-free mobility option can also be relied on to provide sustainable driving pleasure with high levels of comfort and performance in extreme sub-zero temperatures. . . .

The tests close to the Arctic Circle see the BMW Group pressing ahead with its development process for the BMW iX5 Hydrogen. The company will produce a small series of the model later in the year and is also committed to helping expand the network of hydrogen fuelling stations.

The winter testing under extreme conditions clearly shows that the BMW iX5 Hydrogen can also deliver full performance in temperatures of -20 deg.C [-4 deg.F] and therefore represents a viable alternative to a vehicle powered by a battery-electric drive system. For us to be able to offer our customers a fuel cell drive system as an attractive sustainable mobility solution, a sufficiently extensive hydrogen infrastructure also needs to be in place.

—Frank Weber, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Development

Under these cold conditions, the hydrogen fuel cell drive system displays the same everyday usability as a conventional internal combustion engine. Full system power quickly comes on tap. Even in these freezing conditions, the drive system continues to offer its full operating range. Replenishing the hydrogen tanks takes only three to four minutes, even in the depths of winter. . . .

The drive system on board the BMW iX5 Hydrogen teams fuel cell technology with an electric motor using fifth-generation BMW eDrive technology. The hydrogen it uses as an energy source is stored in two 700-bar tanks made from carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic (CFRP). The fuel cell converts the hydrogen into electric power, generating output of 125 kW/170 hp.

The electric motor can add the energy stored in a power battery to the mix. This battery is charged either through energy recovery or from the fuel cell. All of which means that system output of 275 kW/374 hp is available when the driver decides to explore the upper reaches of the car’s dynamic abilities. . . .




Aberdeen City Council and bp sign joint venture agreement to develop city hydrogen hub

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/03/20220312-aberdeen.html


Aberdeen (Scotland) City Council and bp have signed an agreement to form a joint venture partnership that will deliver a scalable green hydrogen production, storage and distribution facility in the city powered by renewable energy. The Aberdeen Hydrogen Hub is to be developed in three phases in response to growing demands for hydrogen.

Phase one, which involves delivery of a green hydrogen production and transport refueling facility powered by a solar farm, is targeting first production from 2024, delivering more than 800 kilograms of green hydrogen per day—enough to fuel 25 buses and a similar number of other fleet vehicles.

Aberdeen City Council and bp—which will operate the joint venture under the name bp Aberdeen Hydrogen Energy Limited—have committed £3 million (US$3.9 million) for initial design work with a final investment decision for the phase one facility build expected in early 2023.

Future phases could see production scaled up through further investment to supply larger volumes of green hydrogen for rail, freight and marine, as well as supply of hydrogen for heat and potentially export. This expansion would be enabled by the expected increased availability of local renewable energy sources, including developments that emerge from the ScotWind offshore wind leasing round. . . .
Aberdeen City Council embarked on its hydrogen journey more than 10 years ago and has already demonstrated how demand can be created within cities, using the zero-emission fuel to power a fleet of 25 buses, 60 public sector vehicles and waste trucks, as well as the P&J Live events complex. More than 2 million passengers have travelled on the city’s hydrogen buses, and CO2 savings to date are in excess of 100 tonnes over the past six years.




Honda to install stationary fuel cell power station on California campus as first step toward commercialization of zero-emission backup power generation

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/03/20220315-honda.html


Honda plans to install a stationary fuel cell power station on its corporate campus in Torrance, Calif. by early 2023. The station will serve as a proof of concept for the future commercialization of a power generation unit for use as a zero-emission backup power source for facilities such as data centers, which require reliable and clean auxiliary power generation to continue operations even in emergency situations.

This new initiative will leverage Honda’s fuel cell technology expertise as part of the company’s global goal to achieve carbon neutrality for all products and corporate activities by 2050.

Honda's proof of concept fuel cell power station will utilize fuel cell components from Honda Clarity Fuel Cell vehicles in a flexible, four-quad parallel stationary fuel cell power generation system capable of generating up to 1152kW-DC/1MW-AC from an inverter. A unique advantage of the four-quad design is the flexibility to change the layout of the four individual fuel cell units to suit the installation environment, accommodating a cuboid, L-shape, Z shape or other packaging requirements.

The station will be connected to the data center on the American Honda campus in early 2023, providing a real-world power generation application to verify performance. This will enable Honda to advance its know-how in the power supply area, as well as supply chain development, grid connection access, construction specifications, AC/DC connection requirements and other critical areas.

While Honda remains committed to developing fuel cell systems for passenger vehicles, the market for fuel cell systems to power larger trucks and transport ships, as well as stationary generation, is expanding rapidly in the US and is expected to grow to more than $86.7 billion annually by 2030. Data centers in particular require high-quality and reliable power, where any disruption in power supply can lead to downtime or problems such as data corruption and damage to servers. . . .




Toyota develops storage module for 70 MPa automotive hydrogen tanks; transportation of H2, other applications

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/03/20220316-toyota.html


Toyota Motor Corporation has developed a storage module that integrates multiple 70 MPa automotive hydrogen tanks—already proven in the Mirai fuel cell vehicle (FCEV)—and safety devices such as a hydrogen detector and an automatic shut-off switch.

Toyota has been working on initiatives toward realizing a hydrogen-based society, such as the sale of FCEVs and FC systems. As part of this, the 70 MPa resin high-pressure hydrogen tank developed for—and certified for—automobiles is now being requested for other applications in railways, shipping, and port cargo handling, as well as for FC generators.

However, using the same tanks in a variety of types of applications requires meeting different safety standards and adjusting to each environment. For this reason, they are not currently used for a wide range of purposes. The government is working on a range of studies to promote the early adoption of hydrogen while ensuring safety, and Toyota and its business partners are ready to offer cooperation and support. Toyota developed this hydrogen storage module as a way to answer these demands and expand the use of hydrogen.

The module unit is integrated with various safety devices that automatically monitor operation status to ensure the module is extremely safe. As storing and transporting hydrogen more safely and efficiently can be done through high-capacity hydrogen loads, it is possible to use hydrogen-based energy in a range of locations where hydrogen filling is difficult, such as ports or mountain areas.

Starting last year, Toyota has been carrying out repeated verification testing with its business partners throughout the whole phases of producing, transporting, and using at the Super Taikyu Series venue, a place for agile development that embodies the idea of “making ever-better motorsports-bred cars.” This is also connected to the development of this conceptual model. This year too, starting with the Super Taikyu Race in Suzuka (March 19 to 20), Toyota will be working on connecting with new business partners and carrying out verification testing with the idea of expanding hydrogen use even further.

This race will be used to verify the transport of large amounts of hydrogen by an FC truck that will carry resin high-pressure hydrogen tanks for automobiles with large volumes (2 sets of 16-tank packages) filled at 45 MPa. . . .



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

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/03/20220317-halohub.html


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.

In entering the agreement, the states intend to compete as a unit for funding established in the Infrastructure, Investment, and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021, in which the United States Department of Energy (DOE) is directed to seek out and select regional clean hydrogen hubs to fund.

The act specifies that such hubs should be selected by DOE based on mix of feedstock available to produce hydrogen, available users of hydrogen, geographic locations, and potential effects on employment, among other considerations. . . .

These states are situated to demonstrate the entire value chain of hydrogen and are situated to tackle the hard-to-decarbonize sectors such as industrial, manufacturing, and transportation. The partnership builds upon existing advantages, such as an inland seaport system that runs from Oklahoma through Arkansas and down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana, existing intermodal rail, existing pipeline infrastructure that runs from Oklahoma through Arkansas to the Gulf of Mexico, and some of the most valuable interstate freight highways in the United States. More importantly, hydrogen is already available for demonstration with new large clean hydrogen production hubs scheduled to come on line in the near future.

Hydrogen is presently used in many manufacturing processes and has increasingly gained interest as a clean-burning fuel source that could help reduce carbon emissions from manufacturing, heavy industry and long haul trucking. Currently, a great deal of hydrogen is produced in the partner states through separating methane into its components of hydrogen and carbon. While this process still produces waste carbon, the process can be made cleaner by capturing the waste carbon and injecting it into permanent underground storage zones. There has also been growing interest and investment in making the electrolysis of water to release hydrogen more commercially available.

The three states have been focused on hydrogen as an additional resource in their all-of-the-above approach to a diversified and clean energy portfolio. In late 2021, a hydrogen-from-natural-gas project with carbon capture and sequestration was announced in Louisiana and a large electrolytic production hub was announced in Oklahoma. . . .




Saudi Aramco joins Rice University’s Carbon Hub; coproduction of hydrogen and advanced carbon materials from hydrocarbons

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/03/20220322-aramco.html


The Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Aramco) has joined Carbon Hub, a research initiative led by Rice University to develop sustainable uses of hydrocarbons. Launched in 2019, Carbon Hub supports a zero-emissions future where clean hydrogen energy and advanced carbon materials are coproduced efficiently and sustainably from hydrocarbons.

Aramco has joined Carbon Hub with a $10 million, five-year sponsorship commitment.

Carbon Hub provides funding and direction to basic science, engineering and policy research. The goal is to accelerate the development and deployment of large-scale technologies that coproduce clean hydrogen fuel and carbon materials from hydrocarbons. These products are used sustainably in construction, mobility, textile and food industries.

Carbon Hub’s technologies produce no carbon dioxide and provide a path to simultaneously decarbonize the industrial sector, preserve and expand manufacturing jobs and promote economic growth.

Carbon Hub’s focus aligns with Aramco’s corporate initiatives on hydrogen and nonmetallic materials. With its SABIC partner, Aramco and other Carbon Hub members plan to develop carbon materials that could potentially displace emissions-intensive materials across broad industry sectors.

Examples include steel and other metals, concrete and soil enhancers. For example, innovative carbon conductors could address market needs for increased electrification and alleviate emissions and environmental impacts associated with mining copper and aluminum. . ..
 
These hydrogen stories are going to continue until the Federal money pot is emptied.
What a colossal waste of money.
 
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MAN Energy Solutions, DNV to collaborate on decarbonization, hydrogen value-chain and digitalization in maritime industry

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/03/20220323-manes.html


MAN Energy Solutions and classification society DNV have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Effective immediately, the MoU is due to run for a period of three years. Under its terms, the two companies will—by 30 June 2022—detail action plans within the fields of decarbonization, the hydrogen value-chain and digitalization. . . .

A survey taken on future fuels in the maritime industry by MAN Energy Solutions found that in this short- and medium-term, LNG / SNG / biogas are taking the lead, closely followed by MGO / ULSFO / VLSFO. Future fuels are also on the rise, with ammonia, hydrogen, methanol and biofuels taking the lead. On the other hand, conventional fuel types such as HFO with scrubber are still considered a viable way for upcoming projects.

The two-stroke side sees two major areas: LNG / SNG / biogas followed closely by ammonia, hydrogen and methanol. On the four-stroke side a different focus can be found with hydrogen taking the clear lead, followed next by LNG / SNG / biogas, ammonia and methanol.




ATI FlyZero project finds green liquid hydrogen most viable zero-carbon emission fuel for aircraft

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/03/20220328-flyzero.html


FlyZero is the UK’s Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) project aiming to realize zero-carbon emission commercial aviation by 2030. Funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the project FlyZero began in early 2021 as an intensive research project investigating zero-carbon emission commercial flight.

The independent study brought together experts from across the UK to assess the design challenges, manufacturing demands, operational requirements and market opportunity of potential zero-carbon emission aircraft concepts.

FlyZero compared zero-carbon emission energy sources such as batteries, hydrogen and ammonia; the team concluded that green liquid hydrogen is the most viable, able to power large aircraft utilizing fuel cell, gas turbine and hybrid systems. For aviation to achieve net zero 2050 FlyZero determined that there must be investment now in both the development of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and green liquid hydrogen technologies.

Other major conclusions are:

Technology acceleration is key as industry and aviation can only afford one fleet refresh between now and 2050. This gives a window of opportunity to introduce zero-carbon emission aircraft in the regional, narrow-body and mid-size market segments. FlyZero modeled these concepts and determined that it is feasible to design and fly an experimental aircraft across the Atlantic by 2030 powered by hydrogen gas turbines.

The regional concept, powered by fuel cells, carries 75 passengers up to 800 nmi at a speed of 325 knots. Fuel cells are likely to be more competitive at smaller aircraft sizes than the FlyZero regional concept where the overall power requirement is lower. Its main advantages are that it only emits water and eliminates all other exhaust emissions (CO2, NOx, particulates).

The narrow-body concept carries 179 passengers up to a design range of 2400 nmi at a speed of 450 knots. The concept has the energy storage and propulsion system located at the rear of the aircraft, this includes the fuel tanks, fuel system and gas turbines.

The mid-size concept carries 279 passengers with a design range of 5750 nmi at a speed of 473 knots and an operational range of 5250 nmi. This means destinations including San Francisco (4664 nmi) and Beijing (4414 nmi) are within reach from London direct while Auckland (9991 nmi), Sydney (9198 nmi) and Honolulu (6289 nmi) are in reach with just one stop. FlyZero analysis concluded that a mid-size hydrogen aircraft could efficiently address 93% of existing long-haul scheduled flights and, therefore, the majority of emissions in this market sector.

The optimum route to decarbonizing aviation is through acceleration of a large (narrow-body and mid-size) commercial aircraft into service. FlyZero’s mid-size aircraft is able to reach all destinations in the world with a single stop. Less commercially risky than developing a narrow-body first, it would allow infrastructure development to be focused on fewer, but larger international hub airports.

Global cumulative CO2 emissions from aviation could be reduced by 4 gigatons (Gt) by 2050 and 14 Gt by 2060. This requires 50% of the commercial fleet to be hydrogen-powered by 2050 and assumes mid-size hydrogen-powered aircraft are operating by 2035, with hydrogen-powered narrow-body aircraft in service by 2037. It is critical to achieve these dates to hit the net zero 2050 goal.

Revolutionary technology breakthroughs are required in six areas to achieve zero-emission flight: hydrogen fuel systems and storage; hydrogen gas turbines; hydrogen fuel cells; electrical propulsion systems; aerodynamic structures; and thermal management. The UK has expertise and capability today in these, but little in liquid hydrogen fuels. Climate science is also fundamental to aerospace research.

From the mid-2030s, liquid hydrogen is forecast to become cheaper as well as greener than Power to Liquid SAF which is expected to be the primary SAF as demand increases. PtL SAF requires more electrical energy to produce than liquid hydrogen. Scalability of other SAFs is limited by availability of raw materials.

Hydrogen-powered aviation will require new aircraft certification policies. New health and safety regulations will also be needed for transporting and storing liquid hydrogen at airports and refuelling aircraft. Regulators will need to take a global approach to developing and adopting these. . . .




Maersk, Egyptian authorities sign partnership agreement to explore large-scale green fuel production in Egypt

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/03/20220329-maersk.html


In the presence of the Egyptian Prime Minister, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Monday in a joint bid to further accelerate the supply of green fuels and the global transformation to net-zero shipping. This partnership follows six fuel sourcing partnerships announced earlier this month, and with it Maersk joins forces with the General Authority for Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone), the Egyptian New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA), the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC), and the Sovereign Fund of Egypt for Investment and Development (TSFE).

Egypt has excellent conditions for renewable energy production and ambitions to become global leader in the green energy value chain. We are very excited to be able to explore options together, drawing on our more than 100 years of business relations in the country.

The availability of green energy and fuel in sufficient quantities and at cost competitive price levels is the single biggest challenge to the decarbonisation of global shipping. For Maersk, our recently announced strategic partnerships with six industry leading companies are key in addressing this challenge, but to stay on the 1.5-degree pathway even more scale is needed within this decade. That is what this partnership is exploring.


—Henriette Hallberg Thygesen, CEO, Fleet & Strategic Brands, Maersk

The parties will be conducting a feasibility study before the end of 2022 to examine an Egypt-based hydrogen and green marine fuel production, powered by renewable energy with Maersk as committed offtaker. . . .

Maersk intends to explore similar opportunities in other regions with strong potential for renewable energy development, drawing on business and governmental relations to facilitate opportunities for nations and commercial players to embrace the rapid acceleration in green fuel production that is key to the decarbonization of shipping.




US-based Raven SR to build waste-to-hydrogen project in Spain

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/03/20220330-raven.html


Raven SR, a US-based renewable fuels company (earlier post), plans to build a waste-to-hydrogen production facility in Aragón, Spain, following the opening of its subsidiary Raven SR Iberia in Zaragoza, announced earlier this month. The Raven SR project in Aragón will produce 1,600 metric tons per year of renewable hydrogen from approximately 75 tons of organic solid waste per day. Raven SR plans to bring the modular project online in 2023. . . .

Raven’s technology can convert any carbonaceous feedstock into a synthetic gas that is 55-65% hydrogen—higher than most processes, including plasma arc gasification. This hydrogen-rich syngas produces higher quantities of fuels with fewer emissions than any competing technology.

Raven can also add small amounts of CO2 to adjust the H2/CO ratio in the process that is needed for FT fuel production. About 15% of feedstock is converted into a solid bio-carbon which can potentially be sold. . . .




Hydrogen refueling station operator H2 MOBILITY Deutschland raises €110M

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/04/20220401-h2m.html


Hydrogen refueling station operator H2 MOBILITY Deutschland closed a €110-million investment round. Hy24, the world’s largest clean hydrogen infrastructure investment platform, led the round with €70 million. Air Liquide, Daimler Truck, Hyundai, Linde, OMV, Shell, and TotalEnergies also contributed to the capital raise.

H2 MOBILITY, a leading operator of hydrogen refueling stations which already operates more than 90 stations across Germany, intends to use the funding to further expand its network to 300 stations by 2030, becoming the backbone of zero-carbon private and commercial traffic in Europe.

Of these, more than 200 will be large-scale refueling stations capable of meeting demand for zero-carbon, heavy-duty and long-haul transportation on the European Continent.

The expansion of H2 MOBILITY Deutschland’s network will be focused on several high-traffic transportation corridors, giving it a cornerstone role in the future mobility system of the European Union. . . .




ZeroAvia and ZEV Station sign MoU to develop hydrogen refueling ecosystem at California airports

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/04/20220405-zeroavia.html


ZeroAvia, a developer of hydrogen-electric aviation, signed an MoU and announced a new partnership with the hydrogen fueling firm ZEV Station to develop green hydrogen refueling infrastructure for airports in California.

The companies will work together on developing an initial regional airport project that represents sufficient scale to showcase how hydrogen-electric propulsion systems can deliver zero-emission commercial flights. ZeroAvia will leverage its significant research and development in hydrogen production and refueling for aviation alongside ZEV Station’s extensive team experience in the provision of gaseous hydrogen for road vehicles, in order to develop an innovative hydrogen airport refueling system.

As part of the partnership, ZeroAvia plans flight demonstrations of hydrogen-electric aircraft from pilot airports, supported by the co-developed refueling ecosystem and dedicated support from ZEV Station.

ZeroAvia has already developed a fully functioning microcosm of potential refueling operations. The Hydrogen Airport Refueling Infrastructure (HARE), developed as part of the HyFlyer projects in conjunction with the European Marine Energy Center (EMEC), has demonstrated green hydrogen production through to airside fueling.

Airports are central points of significant demand thanks to the high volumes of hydrogen required to power aircraft. Busy hubs can produce economies of scale for hydrogen production and thus make it more economical to remove greenhouse gas emissions in other areas such as ground operations, onward transportation links, and proximate industry. . . .

ZEV Station, with a main office in Palm Springs, California is engineering a highway zero-carbon fueling station for both Fuel Cell and Electric vehicles at the same forecourt. Their charging-only test site is slated to open at the end of next month. The first Premier ZEV Station with both charging and hydrogen is under permitting and targeted for operation in early 2023. ZEV Station is in the planning for a network of stations with production of their own hydrogen, delivering to satellite stations. . . .

In the coming weeks, ZeroAvia will begin flight-testing its hydrogen-electric powertrain using its Dornier-228 testbed aircraft. This work, part of the HyFlyer II project, will deliver a fully certified 600kW model for aircraft of up to 19-seats for 2024 and is supported by the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industry Strategy (BEIS), Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) and Innovate UK through the ATI Program.

The company plans to scale up its technology to 40-80 seat aircraft by 2026, with ground tests of the 1.8 megawatt power plant prototypes starting this year.
 
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Oil sands company Suncor Energy strengthens its focus on hydrogen and renewable fuels, divesting wind and solar

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/04/20220406-suncor.html


Suncor Energy, a Canadian integrated energy company that is one of the top oil sands producers in the country, will strengthen its focus on hydrogen and renewable fuels to accelerate progress towards its objective to be a net-zero company by 2050. Suncor also plans to divest its wind and solar assets. . . .

In 2002, Suncor partnered with Enbridge to build one of the first renewable energy projects in Canada and since then, Suncor has developed eight wind power projects in three provinces—Saskatchewan, Alberta and Ontario. Moving forward, Suncor will continue to participate in many aspects of the electricity value chain, including producing power through its integrated co-generation operations, through power marketing and trading, by providing customers with EV charging and potentially procuring renewable power through power purchase agreements.

Suncor’s strategy is focused on increasing shareholder returns and accelerating its progress to be a net-zero company by 2050. In support of this objective, Suncor is focusing its efforts in areas that are complementary to its base oil sands business including replacing coke-fired boilers at Base Plant with lower emission cogeneration units and accelerating commercial scale deployment of carbon capture technology.

Other targeted activities include partnering with ATCO on a project to build a world-scale hydrogen project in Alberta and deploying next generation renewable fuel technologies such as Lanzajet’s sustainable aviation fuel technology and Enerkem’s waste-to-fuels technology. . . .

Suncor is one of the founders of the Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero initiative—an alliance of oil sands producers working collectively with the federal and Alberta governments to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from oil sands operations by 2050 to help Canada meet its climate goals.




Next Hydrogen, Black & Veatch sign MoU to develop large-scale integrated green hydrogen solutions

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/04/20220411-nh.html


Next Hydrogen Solutions Inc., a designer and manufacturer of electrolyzers, recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Black & Veatch, a global engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company, to offer a complete and integrated solution for producing large-scale green hydrogen for industrial customers.

Next Hydrogen will combine its technology and electrolysis expertise with Black & Veatch’s market leadership in large-scale industrial engineering solutions to target broad applications worldwide for industrial and transportation customers. . . .




thyssenkrupp nucera to deliver electrolyzers for Air Products’ hydrogen facility in Arizona; 2nd joint project under strategic partnership

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/04/20220411-thyssenkrupp.html


Air Products has awarded thyssenkrupp nucera a contract for the supply of alkaline water electrolysis technology for a 10 metric ton per day facility to produce green liquid hydrogen in Casa Grande, Arizona. Under this contract, thyssenkrupp nucera will deliver two of their large-scale alkaline water electrolysis standard modules. . . .

. . . thyssenkrupp nucera has developed a modularized and cost-efficient solution for large scale hydrogen production. (Earlier post.) To simplify the construction of new hydrogen plants and keep costs down, it offers electrolyzers in prefabricated skid-mounted modules that can be added up to several hundred megawatts up to gigawatt scale.

Project activities have been initiated, and the facility is expected to be on-stream in 2023. The gaseous hydrogen will be converted to liquid hydrogen using Air Products’ proprietary technology. The production site will also include a terminal for Air Products to distribute the product for the mobility market in California and other locations in the US. . . .

Through several regulations California has taken steps aggressively to decarbonize its transportation sector—the largest emissions sector in its economy—through conversion to zero-emission vehicles. The state has also set a goal that all drayage trucks be zero-emissions by 2035 and heavy-duty vehicles convert to zero-emissions vehicles by 2045.

For heavy-duty applications, hydrogen fuel cells offer faster refuel times, longer range, and larger payloads, while also performing better in extreme climate conditions than battery-electric solutions. Hydrogen as a transportation fuel most closely mirrors the traditional transportation fueling experience. . . .




Shell and Uniper to work together on blue hydrogen production facility in the UK

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/04/20220413-humber.html


Uniper has signed an agreement with Shell to progress plans to produce blue hydrogen at Uniper’s Killingholme power station site, in the East of England. The hydrogen produced could be used to decarbonize industry, transport and power throughout the Humber region.

Blue hydrogen refers to hydrogen produced by the reformation of natural gas, with the CO2 produced as a result of this process being captured and stored using CCS technology.

The Humber Hub Blue Project includes plans for a blue hydrogen production facility with a capacity of up to 720 megawatts (MW), using gas reformation technology with carbon capture and storage (CCS).

The captured carbon would be fed through the proposed Zero Carbon Humber onshore pipeline, part of the East Coast Cluster, recently selected as one of two carbon capture and storage schemes to receive initial government support under the Government’s Cluster Sequencing Process.

The Humber Hub Blue Project recently passed the eligibility criteria for Phase-2 of the Government’s Cluster Sequencing Process. Successful projects which could be eligible for Government funding will be shortlisted from May 2022. Phase-2 projects are expected to take final investment decisions from 2024 to then be operational from 2027.

Blue hydrogen production at Killingholme could see the capture of approximately 1.6 million metric tonnes (Mt) of carbon per year through CCS, making a significant contribution to the UK Government’s target to capture 10Mt of carbon per year by 2030. . . .

Uniper is also a partner in the Zero Carbon Humber project to develop the necessary carbon dioxide pipeline transport for blue hydrogen production. As part of the East Coast Cluster the captured carbon dioxide will be stored permanently offshore in the Northern Endurance Partnership’s facility in the UK’s North Sea.

Uniper continues to develop a separate green hydrogen project, using electrolytic hydrogen production technology, as part of the overall Humber Hub development at Uniper’s Killingholme site. Uniper, along with its project partners, will shortly complete the Project Mayflower feasibility study, part funded by the Department for Transport’s Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition, administered by InnovateUK, looking at the decarbonization of port related activities at the Port of Immingham.




BC to open office to accelerate hydrogen deployment

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/04/20220414-bc.html


The Canadian province of British Columbia is establishing an office to expand hydrogen deployment rapidly and to streamline projects from proposal to construction. The BC Hydrogen Office will work with federal and local governments to help attract investments and simplify the multi-jurisdictional review and permitting processes.

There are already 40 hydrogen projects proposed or under construction in BC with more on the way. These projects represent $4.8 billion in proposed investment in the province. Many are small or medium-sized projects to provide local hydrogen supply or solutions, but some are major investments, including some of the largest proposed green hydrogen-production projects in the world. . . .

In 2021, British Columbia became 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 take over the short term (2020-25), medium term (2025-30) and long term (2030 and beyond). These include:

incentivizing the production of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen;

developing regional hydrogen hubs where production and demand are co-located;

financial supports for deploying fuel cell electric vehicles and infrastructure;

expanding the use of hydrogen across different industrial sectors and applications;

promoting the adoption of hydrogen in areas where it is most cost-effective in terms of emission reductions;

creating the B.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy to drive the commercialization of new hydrogen technology; and

establishing ambitious carbon-intensity targets and a regulatory framework for carbon capture and storage.

BC has the resources to produce both green and blue hydrogen with low carbon intensity. More than 98% of BC’s electricity is renewable, allowing the production of green hydrogen via electrolysis. BC also has low-cost natural gas reserves, significant geological storage capacity and expertise in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, providing the potential to produce blue hydrogen from natural gas with adequate and permanent CCS.

Immediate priorities are to:

scale-up green hydrogen production using the abundant supply of clean, renewable electricity; and

establish a regulatory framework for CCS to enable blue hydrogen production while ensuring it has similar or lower emissions.

More than 50% of Canada’s hydrogen and fuel-cell companies are in BC; the province accounts for about 60% of Canada’s research investment in hydrogen and fuel-cell development.




PEM electrolyzer company Ohmium closes $45M Series B; quadrupling manufacturing capacity

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/04/20220415-ohmium.html


. . . The funds will support Ohmium’s rapid growth plan to quadruple hydrogen manufacturing capacity from 500 MW annually to approximately two GW annually by the end of 2022. . . .
 
GRA said:
Suncor’s strategy is focused on increasing shareholder returns and accelerating its progress to be a net-zero company by 2050. In support of this objective, Suncor is focusing its efforts in areas that are complementary to its base oil sands business including replacing coke-fired boilers at Base Plant with lower emission cogeneration units and accelerating commercial scale deployment of carbon capture technology.

Just exactly how could one mine tar sands and make them "net-zero"?
 
WetEV said:
GRA said:
Suncor’s strategy is focused on increasing shareholder returns and accelerating its progress to be a net-zero company by 2050. In support of this objective, Suncor is focusing its efforts in areas that are complementary to its base oil sands business including replacing coke-fired boilers at Base Plant with lower emission cogeneration units and accelerating commercial scale deployment of carbon capture technology.

Just exactly how could one mine tar sands and make them "net-zero"?

By mixing in hopium into the carbon capture tech of course! Nothing says "possible" like pixie dust after all.

Edit: explaining further for GRA's sake. No carbon capture tech has proven to be even carbon neutral in their implementation (even planting trees, since that takes years to take effect), let alone the carbon negative scale needed to offset whatever carbon-intensive business they were supposed to "offset".
 
WetEV said:
GRA said:
Suncor’s strategy is focused on increasing shareholder returns and accelerating its progress to be a net-zero company by 2050. In support of this objective, Suncor is focusing its efforts in areas that are complementary to its base oil sands business including replacing coke-fired boilers at Base Plant with lower emission cogeneration units and accelerating commercial scale deployment of carbon capture technology.

Just exactly how could one mine tar sands and make them "net-zero"?


No idea. Sounds like greenwashing to me, but if they can do it . . .
 
GRA said:
WetEV said:
GRA said:
Suncor’s strategy is focused on increasing shareholder returns and accelerating its progress to be a net-zero company by 2050. In support of this objective, Suncor is focusing its efforts in areas that are complementary to its base oil sands business including replacing coke-fired boilers at Base Plant with lower emission cogeneration units and accelerating commercial scale deployment of carbon capture technology.

Just exactly how could one mine tar sands and make them "net-zero"?


No idea. Sounds like greenwashing to me, but if they can do it . . .

If you thought it was greenwashing, and thus effectively a scam, then why bother sharing it as progress for hydrogen and FCEV's?
 
Oils4AsphaultOnly said:
GRA said:
WetEV said:
Just exactly how could one mine tar sands and make them "net-zero"?


No idea. Sounds like greenwashing to me, but if they can do it . . .

If you thought it was greenwashing, and thus effectively a scam, then why bother sharing it as progress for hydrogen and FCEV's?


Because that's only my opinion based on minimal information and very limited knowledge of the subject matter, and I don't consider it my job to censor information from credible sources. I don't only post links to articles where the conclusions agree with my own, I post articles so other people can inform themselves; they are free to arrive at their own conclusions, and can state and discuss them as they choose just as I do.
If I have a strong opinion on the subject whether pro or con, I'll make my own comment.
 
GRA said:
Oils4AsphaultOnly said:
GRA said:
No idea. Sounds like greenwashing to me, but if they can do it . . .

If you thought it was greenwashing, and thus effectively a scam, then why bother sharing it as progress for hydrogen and FCEV's?


Because that's only my opinion based on minimal information and very limited knowledge of the subject matter, and I don't consider it my job to censor information from credible sources. I don't only post links to articles where the conclusions agree with my own, I post articles so other people can inform themselves; they are free to arrive at their own conclusions, and can state and discuss them as they choose just as I do.
If I have a strong opinion on the subject whether pro or con, I'll make my own comment.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave! You're not an expert on the tech you say? so you'll just post up a puff piece for others to decide (even though you claim that you thought it was greenwashing), you say? Yet somehow you found the expertise to be able to tell how others SHOULD be designing their electric cars not too long ago.

Oh that's right, but you've denied being a proponent of Hydrogen and FCEV's. You've even stated that you support whichever tech made the most sense. Yet you have no strong opinion on a tech that you think is greenwashing? .... yeah, ok.
 
Oils4AsphaultOnly said:
GRA said:
Oils4AsphaultOnly said:
If you thought it was greenwashing, and thus effectively a scam, then why bother sharing it as progress for hydrogen and FCEV's?


Because that's only my opinion based on minimal information and very limited knowledge of the subject matter, and I don't consider it my job to censor information from credible sources. I don't only post links to articles where the conclusions agree with my own, I post articles so other people can inform themselves; they are free to arrive at their own conclusions, and can state and discuss them as they choose just as I do.
If I have a strong opinion on the subject whether pro or con, I'll make my own comment.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave! You're not an expert on the tech you say? so you'll just post up a puff piece for others to decide (even though you claim that you thought it was greenwashing), you say? Yet somehow you found the expertise to be able to tell how others SHOULD be designing their electric cars not too long ago.

Oh that's right, but you've denied being a proponent of Hydrogen and FCEV's. You've even stated that you support whichever tech made the most sense. Yet you have no strong opinion on a tech that you think is greenwashing? .... yeah, ok.


I have far more personal knowledge and experience of what capabilities personal and commercial vehicles need to be capable of, as I've been driving for well over four decades and also had a couple of decades of experience in the trucking industry (and through that, the requirements of freight transport in general), as well as (noted in my Sig) extensive knowledge and experience of off-grid systems and the foibles of storage batteries. Li-ion are different chemistry from what I was working with, but they're still batteries with the same types of advantages and disadvantages; only the specific details of those have changed.

OTOH, when it comes to the details of blue or green H2, CCS, the costs and techniques of same, I'm dependent on others with far more knowledge and experience of the subject than I have. I want to read information and arguments from multiple sides of a subject and decide which I find more credible, not just live in another internet echo chamber. A press release from a company is likely to be one-sided, but that doesn't necessarily invalidate the information in it. I post the info so that others can, if they disagree with the info, comment on it and advance their own arguments against it, and I will form my opinion based on which arguments and data I find most persuasive.

My opinions about the greater usefulness of H2 for long-range ZEV transport are based on its capabilities, just as my opinions on the greater usefulness of batteries for short-range transport are based on theirs. The issues with each are infrastructure as well as future developments. as to cost, capability, as well as any potential limitations on basic resources and supply. My opinions on the financial aspects of each and their likely (but by no means certain) future development are based on decades of reading on the patterns of technical improvement and replacement, as well as my own experiences seeing how what was then still an immature tech (PV and related) has developed, what government support was needed to bring it to the mainstream, and the numerous false starts and blind allies along the way as competing techs were abandoned or limited.

What I am a proponent of is reducing and ultimately getting off fossil fuels as rapidly as possible. I am far less concerned with which tech(s) we use to do that in each niche, but I state my opinions for various niches based on what seems to me the best match for a given use. One thing I am certain of is that governments have a very poor track record at picking winners in the technical and commercial spheres, especially decades in advance, so given the dire situation I believe we find ourselves in (the latest IPCC report reinforcing that belief) I believe we must push ahead with multiple techs until such time as one or more of the ZE or net-zero carbon techs in transportation, electricity production, heating and industrial processes prove commercially viable and have replaced GHG-producing methods to the maximum extent possible, as quickly as possible. Reductions in local air pollution are a secondary but also very important goal of this. This requires government subsidies for basic research, dem/val, probably some early production facilities and some early deployment. Inevitably it also means that much government money will be wasted as we find that this or that tech fails to develop as hoped, but IMO the ultimate cost of not pursuing multiple pathways is almost certain to be far higher, not just in money but in the livability of this planet.
 
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