This whitepaper explores critical engineering challenges vital to creating a low carbon hydrogen value chain and explores innovative concepts to surmount them.
"Green or low-carbon hydrogen is starting to receive attention from a wide range of businesses as a potential new energy source.
Rapid changes in the global economic climate, fueled by pressures like decarbonization, decentralization, and digitalization, have spurred innovation within the energy sector and amongst heavy energy users, especially transport and industry. Organizations worldwide are implementing new energy models, based around electrification, alternative energy sources such as green hydrogen and biofuels, hydrogen for thermal engines, renewable energies for electrolysis, other technologies than electrolysis such as biomass thermolysis, and transportation of hydrogen via pipelines, trailers, decentralized energy, and platforms that enable peer-to-peer energy sharing.
Hydrogen will play an essential role in all these changes. It is an energy-dense fuel that could replace oil and gas as an energy source, especially in hard-to-electrify transport and industrial processes. Right now, most hydrogen is produced from natural gas; green hydrogen is the exception and is produced by the electrolysis of water powered by renewable energy."
