Author: Anela Dokso

Vattenfall is working on a hydrogen demonstration project called Hydrogen Turbine 1 (HT1) at the Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm in Scotland, which involves installing hydrogen production equipment on a wind turbine. Marine Scotland has been tasked with conducting two pipeline route surveys as well as providing a screening opinion for an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). The developer applied for and was granted permission to conduct a pipeline route survey on a second route in August 2021. The HT1 project would install an extended transition piece platform housing hydrogen production equipment on an existing offshore wind farm turbine. A subsea flowline…

The Hydrogen Hub Act has been introduced in the New Mexico legislature. A slew of subsidies will be included in the bill, which will be introduced during the next legislative session in order to encourage the growth of a new industry. One of four hydrogen hubs planned under the $1 trillion infrastructure bill signed into law in November, New Mexico is expected to be a contender. Environmentalists, on the other hand, have raised concerns about hydrogen as a solution to some of the state’s most pressing economic and clean-energy issues. Because of the state’s plans, they say, the fossil-fuel industry…

Energy supplier SFC Energy has been awarded an important new order from a Canadian Oil & Gas Producer. Almost a million dollars in CAD worth of orders have been placed. This was not the first time that SFC Energy had supplied its customer with innovative SCADA system solutions and multi-variable transmitters. Individual components have been integrated into an RTU Panel solution specifically tailored to meet the needs of the customer since 2019, as part of the latest call-off. Industrial process plants rely heavily on intelligent automation systems. When it comes to setting up processes even more efficiently, SFC Energy proves…

When it comes to long-range, autonomous, beyond-line-of-sight UAS operations, Doosan Mobility Innovation (DMI) has entered into agreements with Iris Automation and Drone America to pursue Doosan hydrogen fuel cell technology. Commercial BVLOS aircraft platforms and infrastructure will be tested and evaluated by the companies in conjunction with the integration of technologies and the sharing of operational resources. Attendance at CES 2022 will be held in Las Vegas. Doosan will have a booth #5318 where attendees can meet with company reps. Doosan’s Hydrogen fuel cell technology has the potential to sustainably expand BVLOS drone operations for commercial and public flight operations…

After purchasing 5% of FusionOne, PowerTap Hydrogen has given an update on the company’s investment. An American company called FusionOne has developed proprietary, patent-pending technologies for the thermal processing of plastics and other carbon matter into clean “white” hydrogen and electricity, which is then used to produce clean hydrogen and electricity. It has been reported that FusionOne is on track to have the first HydroPlas Reactor operational in the first half of 2022, as planned and as announced in PowerTap’s April 2021 announcement, with plastic polymer feedstocks and several other carbon-based waste feedstocks, as feedstocks for the HydroPlas Reactor. Final…

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed by KACST and CarbonMeta Technologies to work together on the conversion of plastic waste into hydrogen gas and high-value solid carbon materials through microwave catalysis.. Researchers at KACST and CarbonMeta will collaborate on advancing microwave catalysis processes developed by the University of Oxford. They will also work together to develop industrial-scale hydrogen and carbon extraction processes. “This collaboration will help advance a solution for eliminating plastic waste; instead of polluting our land and oceans, waste plastics could produce clean hydrogen fuel and value-added carbon products,” said Dr. Hassan Alayied, Director General of…

Saudi oil company Aramco is sponsoring the first hydrogen-powered racing truck to compete in the Dakar Rally. In order to power its 100 percent hydrogen-powered engine, the truck was designed by French zero-emission vehicle manufacturer Gaussin and comes equipped with tanks that can hold up to 80 kg of hydrogen. “This is a milestone in the development of hydrogen as a lower-carbon fuel and the first time a hydrogen truck has entered the Dakar Rally,” said Ahmad A. Al-Saadi, senior vice president of technical services, at Aramco. Saudi Arabia has hosted the Dakar Rally since its inception in 2020. For…

Sweden’s Energy Agency has given TechForH2 a grant of about SEK 162 million for 2022-2026. Technology and innovation for a future hydrogen economy is what TechForH2 stands for. This research project is being led by Chalmers University of Technology and will collaborate with RISE, Siemens Energy, PowerCell Sweden, Volvo GTT, GKN Aerospace, Oxen, Stena Teknik, Johnson Matthey, and Insplorion, among others. It will begin with five projects, one of which will focus on further developing the hydrogen sensor platform of Insplorion to improve its performance in new application areas, such as operating under high pressure. When it comes to mobility…

Qatar University’s National 3MT Competition awarded third place to researcher Muhammad Danyal Imam for his work on developing a long-term method for producing hydrogen from water, which was funded by the university’s Qatari partner. For him, it’s a game changer for hydrogen production and storage. At present, many ways to obtain hydrogen exist, but they have all proved to be prohibitively expensive. It is expensive and time-consuming to produce high-purity water for current water-splitting methods. The Middle East is the world’s most water-scarce region, home to 15 of the world’s 20 most water-strapped countries. As a result, freshwater is in…

EDP and other companies, and research partners will develop a 100MW green hydrogen production project in Sines. Companies like Galp, Bondalti, Martifer, Engie, Vestas Wind Systems, McPhy, and Efacec are collaborating on the GreenH2Atlantic renewable energy project. ISQ, DLR, CEA, and Axelera are also academic and research partners in the project. The new project will be located in the area of Sines’ coal-fired power plant. It has received €30 million in research and innovation funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 – Green Deal Call. To make use of the grant money, a 100MW electrolyser plant will be constructed and…