Author: Anela Dokso

Shinhan Bank, Korea Midland Power, LS Electric, Aegis Asset Management, and Elekseed have formed a partnership and entered into a business agreement with the Queensland Government of Australia to launch a pilot project for the commercial generation of green hydrogen. Through this agreement, the consortium in which Shinhan Bank has a stake will work with the Queensland State Government to implement the ‘H-REP (Hydrogen Renewable Energy Park)’ pilot project in Queensland, Australia, investing a total of AUD 20 million. H-REP proposes to construct a solar power plant with a capacity of 3MW (megawatts), and utilize this power to run the…

An undisclosed European automaker has placed an order with ElringKlinger and Plastic Omnium’s fuel cell joint venture, EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies, for the new development of a bipolar plate. Because EKPO is going to create and send prototypes to the carmaker for use in a fuel-cell car. It is fair to say that the bipolar plates are the lifeblood of an FC stack and are primarily responsible for its efficacy. This innovation was created for the customer’s future stack iterations. The work is aimed at achieving the highest power density in the most space-efficient form. EKPO beat out rival bidders…

Draft guidelines for a Clean Hydrogen Production Standard (CHPS) were published by the US Department of Energy (DOE). The regulations were drafted to accommodate Section 40315 of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). Due to the fact that the CHPS is not a regulatory criteria, the DOE may not insist that any future projects receive funding if they fail to meet it. Hydrogen distribution centers receiving BIL funding, however, would be expected to “demonstrably aid attainment” of the CHPS by reducing emissions as much as feasible across the supply chain. The merit review criteria that will be utilized to choose projects…

Hydrogen storage in depleted gas fields is an area of joint research between CGG and the University of Edinburgh’s GeoEnergy research group. To compete with fossil fuels like natural gas, hydrogen will need large-scale, low-cost, and dependable hydrogen storage solutions. The new group is exploring the feasibility of reusing depleted gas reserves for this purpose. To model the variety of the depleted gas fields’ underground geological reservoirs, they plan to work together. That way, they can see which ones have the best potential as hydrogen storage locations. Additional options, such as the utilization of carbon dioxide and other alternative cushion…

Both H2 Green Steel and GreenIron H2 are committed to reducing emissions and increasing circularity at H2 Green Steel’s plant in Boden, which is located in Northern Sweden. GreenIron H2 is a Swedish firm that aims to efficiently and cheaply reduce metal oxides to pure metals without using carbon dioxide. H2 Green Steel’s iron waste and residuals will be recycled through this hydrogen-based CO2-reduction technology. GreenIron H2 will install its furnaces at the H2 Green Steel plant in Boden, collecting residuals such oxidized scale and production waste for further processing with green hydrogen per GreenIron H2’s patented method. The end…

By 2025, India will have eight gigawatts of electrolyser capacity, making it one of the world’s most significant industrial hubs. For a grand total of 8 GW, there are now seven distinct industrial projects involving a total of nine companies. And by 2025, four 1GW plants will be up and running. By the end of 2022, the number of electrolyser factories in India is expected to be nearly as large as the global average. The 8GW would be a sizeable fraction of the 26GW of gigawatt-scale electrolyser installations announced to far around the world. There has been a recent uptick…

The European Commission has included P2X Solutions’ plan to build a green hydrogen and synthetic methane production facility on its list of Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI). P2X Solutions is a frontrunner in Finland’s clean energy market. P2X Solutions plans to build a facility to generate renewable synthetic methane and a green hydrogen production capacity of 70 MW as part of its proposal. There is greater leeway in how European states fund IPCEI initiatives. Projects funded by IPCEI work to have the greatest possible impact on the European hydrogen value chain, scientific community, and everyday life. P2X Solutions’…

Using their innovative processing technology, a Chinese research team has successfully converted saltwater into a renewable hydrogen fuel source. Since it is renewable, has an abundance of usable components, is inexpensive, and can be used to generate high-quality hydrogen, seawater is an excellent choice for use as a hydrogen fuel source. However, seawater presents considerable challenges since it contains components, like as chlorine, that hinder the efficiency of the conversion method. To get around this drawback, researchers came up with a new processing platform that retains all the advantages of seawater while eliminating its drawbacks, such as chlorine. By passing…

Cummins unveiled its fourth-generation hydrogen fuel cell engine at the IAA Transportation Show. The fuel cell technology comes in single 135 kW modules and dual 270 kW modules that are tailored to the duty-cycle, performance, and packaging needs of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and buses. Two major truck manufacturers, Scania of Europe and Daimler Trucks of North America, have already established partnerships with Cummins to build and install these next-generation fuel cell engines in prototype vehicles. Integrating the systems into automobiles is simplified by the use of fourth-generation variable pressure technology, which also increases power density, power nodes, and operating…

AeroDelft is a student-run group at TU Delft working to create the first airplane in the world to be propelled by liquid hydrogen. AeroDelft believes that liquid hydrogen is the key to a future of environmentally responsible flying. Project Phoenix entails the development, production, and testing of a 1:3 size prototype and a full-scale, hydrogen-powered aircraft. Their tail-mounted electric motor allows the prototype to fly for seven hours on a single kilogram of liquid hydrogen and travel more than 500 kilometers. Cadence Fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is used by the team to investigate how redesigning the plane would affect…