GREEN HYDROGEN
Hydrogen, primarily green hydrogen, is a beacon of hope in the clean
energy transition and green revolution.
Like electricity, hydrogen is not a primary energy carrier that can
simply be mined and used; it has to be produced, requiring raw
materials such as crude oil and natural gas or even biomass and water.
Therefore, energy must be externally supplied.
Currently, the EU consumes about 10 million tons of hydrogen, 11 % of
global demand.
Grey hydrogen is the dominant and most cost-effective technology
today, but it is produced from fossil fuels, mainly through steam
reforming of natural gas. However, large amounts of CO₂ are released,
about 5.5 kg of carbon dioxide per kg of hydrogen produced.
Green hydrogen accounts only for less than 1 % of global production.
Hydrogen plays only a minor role in the European energy supply and
accounts for about two percent of the energy mix in the EU. Of this,
95 percent is generated by fossil fuels, releasing 70 to 100 million
metric tons of CO₂ annually.
However, the European Commission wants to push the use of renewable
hydrogen firmly and aims to produce 10 million tons of hydrogen within
the EU by 2030 and import another 10 million tons. For this purpose,
the so-called REPowerEU plan, which aims to reduce dependence on
fossil fuels and accelerate ecological change rapidly, was presented.
Hydrogen is to be produced primarily by electrolysis, resulting in a
solid additional demand for electricity, which must come from
renewable sources. The 10 million ton target will require a further
500 TWh of electricity – 14 % of the EU’s total electricity
consumption.
When ACA technology is utilized, hydrogen is a by-product of methane
cracking, and therefore, we are producing it cheaply and efficiently.
No CO₂ is produced because the carbon is separated during gas cracking
and converted into solid form. Hydrogen can be made separately using
ACA, by adding methane and then cracking it, or in combination with
LTC technology, by autonomously producing the synthesis gas from
organic waste materials, which is then cracked.
We can produce approximately 60 kg of green hydrogen per ton of input.
The space and material requirements are much lower than electrolysis
and the additional construction of wind and solar plants.
GREEN HYDROGEN IS THE EMERGING SOLUTION FOR DECARBONIZING VARIOUS
INDUSTRIES – A VALUABLE BY-PRODUCT OF OUR CNT PRODUCTION.