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@NutHazard Amen to that mate. :)
Nuthazard. A very interesting post. Recent thinking on hydrogen has seen a big role for hydrogen production by reformation of methane. But now the price of natural gas has quadrupled perhaps more time will be spent thinking of other ways of producing hydrogen - has PHE's time come?
Great point Sensetalka. Another revenue stream perhaps, hope so.
It is ironic to find PHE might be able to sell CO2 just as COP meets to negotiate how to reduce it.....
That's right Dr, syngas is just the building blocks for many things, it comprises of hydrogen, carbon monoxide and bits of methane/C02. You can vary the ratio of these gases by altering the process conditions (temperature/pressure etc..) depending on what the desired syngas composition is.
I work for one of largest refiners in the UK and we are looking at the potential of hydrogen to replace natural gas in our fired heaters. As for gas turbines I presume so, I mean, there's companies building hydrogen powered planes so it's not a stretch to imagine a hydrogen powered gas turbine.
I think we'll certainly see the likes of steelmaking and cement manufacturers (very heavy industrial C02 emitters) using hydrogen as an alternative in their processes in the very near future. The use case of hydrogen is only going to grow imo
Does anyone know if there are plans to use PHE hydrogen to replace gas power stations or as a substitute in the production of fertiliser so we can get CO2 for other industries?
Problem is that heat pumps are seen as more efficient than hydrogen.
PHE (hydrogen) will do well but this will come from vehicle usage.
Just the other year we had to install a oil boiler rather than an LPG boiler, the oil boiler is so much worse for the environment but oil is cheaper therefore the wonderful EPC calculations gave it the thumbs up
Plenty of chat around how the UK needs have a more secure gas supply today... Another benefit of hydrogen
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1439858656883978242?s=20
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1439894168860512257?s=20
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1439871285757194242?s=20
From the recently released UK hydrogen strategy :
Page 8 - In the short to medium term, the focus must be on kickstarting the hydrogen economy and ramping up production and use of renewable and low carbon hydrogen, including further replacing unabated natural gas with hydrogen.
Page 9 - The hydrogen infrastructure act is the framework for the conversion of the natural gas infrastructure into a multifunctional hydrogen infrastructure enabling the transport, distribution, storage and end use of hydrogen and its derivatives.
Page 21 - There's a block diagram showing how we plan to convert gas infrastructure network to hydrogen by 2050, it starts by blending small amounts from 2020 onwards and gradually ramping up including the building of hydrogen valleys and connecting to a pan-European hydrogen backbone infrastructure
Hydrogen production needs to ramp up 90-fold within the next 8years if we have a hope of achieving net zero by 2050 and remember that the UK government has set the world’s most ambitious climate change target into law to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035 so within next 14 years we can expect really aggressive expansion of hydrogen.
Here is some further background reading about hydrogen boilers>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57149059
I also watched a couple of youtube videos on them, what I got from that was that all new boilers being installed after 2025 would need to be "hydrogen ready", yes this date may slip but it's the underlying transition which is important. Once enough homes have hydrogen ready boilers, the blend rate of h2 into the nat gas pipeline can be increased and for less than £100 everyone with a hydrogen ready boiler can convert it to run on primarily hydrogen.
Government experts are recommending against hydrogen in homes and say we should go electric
Roll on HYDROGEN boilers in our homes.
Hydrogen producers will stabilize our Economy..
No brainer for me Plastic waste to Hydrogen..
Self sufficient...
Uk poland world .......Hydrogen
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