Welcome to our Weekly News Round Up - there has been some really interesting and exciting developments for the green hydrogen industry this week!
Here are our top 5 news pieces for this week with key takeaways:
- ?A 19-seat hydrogen-powered plane took to skies above Gloucestershire yesterday afternoon, in what has been dubbed a "giant step forward" for the #decarbonisation of flight ??
- The two-engine plane, which has been retrofitted with a full-size prototype #hydrogen -electric powertrain on its left wing, successfully took off and landed at the company's research and development (R&D) facility at Cotswold Airport ????
- CEO
Val Miftakhov
said "The first flight of our 19-seat aircraft shows just how scalable our technology is and highlights the rapid progress of zero-emission propulsion." ??
-
ZeroAvia
’s Dornier 228 testbed #aircraft is the largest aircraft in the world to have been successfully powered by a hydrogen-electric engine ??
- A separate project to develop #clean engine technology for larger aircraft, with as many as 90 seats, is also underway, ZeroAvia said ??
- ?Relatively small #policy interventions on electric cars, plant-based alternatives to meat and #greenfertilisers would lead to unstoppable growth in those sectors, the experts said ??
- The boost this would give to battery and #hydrogenproduction would mean crucial knock-on benefits for other sectors including #energy storage and aviation ??
- The report, launched at the
World Economic Forum
in Davos, Switzerland, said the three super-tipping points would cut emissions in sectors covering 70% of global #greenhousegasemissions ??
- One of the tipping points is setting mandates for #green fertilisers, to replace current fertilisers, which are produced from #fossil gas. #Ammonia is a key ingredient and can be made from hydrogen produced by #renewableenergy, combined with nitrogen from the air ??
- Governments requiring a growing proportion of fertiliser to be green will drive a scale-up and cost reductions in the production of #greenhydrogen, the report says. That then supports long-distance aviation and shipping, and steel production, which will rely on hydrogen to end their #carbonemissions. Mandates are being considered with India, for example, targeting 5% green fertiliser production by 2023–24 and 20% by 2027–28. ??
- The hydrogen-diesel hybrid engine is affectionately known as "baby number two" that could help to #decarbonise some of Australia's heaviest industries ??
- Engineers at the University of New South Wales?(
悉尼新南威尔士大学
) say they have successfully modified a conventional #diesel engine to use a mix of #hydrogen and a small amount of diesel, claiming their patented technology has cut #carbondioxide (CO2) emissions by more than 85% ??
- "The interest in converting an existing diesel engine into a clean-burning hydrogen engine is extremely high," Prof
Shawn Kook
tells the
BBC
at his laboratory in Sydney. Enquiries have come from Germany, South Africa, Brazil, Japan and China ?
- Tim Buckley, the director at
Climate Energy Finance
, a public interest think-tank in Sydney, believes the #technology has the potential to "transform the Australian mining industry dramatically" ?
- "The idea of blending hydrogen and diesel together in an existing engine is something of a Holy Grail for #decarbonising heavy industry and mining," adds Tim Buckley. ??
- Mintal Hydrogen has chosen
Topsoe
as its technology partner for the project in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, which is set to begin production in 2025. The companies claim it is the ‘first’ dynamic #greenhydrogen plant in China, with a first-phase capacity of 1,800 tonnes of green ammonia per day, and 390,000 tonnes annually ??
- The #greenammonia produced is expected to replace approximately 850,000 tonnes of coal and reduce more than 2m tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) from being emitted to the atmosphere every year ??
- The #cleanpower from #windturbines will connect directly to the #electrolysis unit, making it more cost-effective than using hydrogen storage ??
- Topsoe and Mintal Hydrogen’s proposed plant will align with the Industrial Sector Peak Carbon Implementation Plan, which aims to substitute #hydrogen from coal for hydrogen from electrolysis powered by IRE ??
-
Black & Veatch
pinpointed, at
3rd Hydrogen India Summit
, decarbonisation models that will hasten India's shift to #cleaner fuels ?
- With India’s reliance on imported #crudeoil, opportunities exist to plan for and grow the use of green hydrogen as a #zeroemissions fuel source for the country’s transport sector, including #commercialfleets and aviation ??
- "The commercial credibility of hydrogen development is absolutely key, particularly around securing viable off-takers for the product. There are a few emerging business models that are being studied and developed more closely in India, for domestic consumption and export. This includes the use of hydrogen for transport fleets, the use of hydrogen derivatives as an aviation fuel and the production of green ammonia," said
Ruturaj Govilkar
, Country Manager and Managing Director, India, Black & Veatch ??
- India recently approved the National Green Hydrogen Mission with an initial outlay of Rs.19,744 crore (US$ 2.3 billion). The Mission aims to make India a #globalhub for production, utilization and export of #greenhydrogen and its derivatives ??
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