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USA: Exxon plans to produce blue hydrogen on an industrial scale + + + Heligoland: Bureau Veritas joins Aqua Ventus + + + Peru: DLR, DCPR and H2-Sphere want to produce hydrogen from mining waste + + + Namibia: Cleanergy is building a demo plant for hydrogen + + + USA: FPL contracts Cummings to supply a 25 MW electrolyser + + + Australia: Origen/Orica plan 55 MW electrolyser + + + Düsseldorf/Offenbach: VDE/VDI rely on fuel cell trucks + + + Philippines: Chamber of Commerce examines market potential of green hydrogen + + + Saudi Arabia: Foreign Office opens hydrogen office + + + Great Britain/Canada: First Hydrogen and the University of Cambridge agree on research collaboration + + +
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A selection of PtX topics summarized at the end of the week
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The US mineral oil company Exxon Mobil Corp. is planning a hydrogen production facility and one of the world's largest carbon capture and storage projects at its petrochemical site in Baytown, Texas. The Houston facility is expected to produce up to one billion cubic feet (2,8 million cubic meters) blue produce hydrogen per day. The carbon capture infrastructure for this project would have the capacity to transport and store up to ten million tons of CO2 per year. Currently the plans for Baytown evaluated. A final investment decision is expected “in two to three years”. According to its own information, the company currently produces around 1,5 billion cubic feet (4,2 million cubic meters).
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The certification company Bureau Veritas Germany Holding GmbH joins the Aqua Ventus support association. The 92 members consortium wants to extract up to one million tons of green hydrogen offshore from 2035 between Heligoland and Doggerbank and bring it to land via pipeline.
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Canadian mining company Cerro de Pasco Resources Inc. (DCPR), through its subsidiary H2-Sphere GmbH, has signed an agreement with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to develop technologies to convert mining waste such as acidic wastewater into hydrogen and other byproducts to develop. In the first phase According to the company, DLR is preparing an investigation report. In the second phase, tests will be carried out, at the end of which there will be a plan for industrial implementation. No background information on the specific procedure or timetable was given. DCPR was founded in 2012 with the aim of cleaning up the contaminated tailings of the Peruvian Cerro de Pasco open-cast mine - according to media reports "the dirtiest mine in the world" - as well as the environment. Silver, copper, lead and zinc were once mined there with the participation of European companies. The city's residents suffer from illness and poisoning due to the pollutants left behind.
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The Ohlthaver & List Group of Companies, Namibia, and the Belgian Cmb Tech Ltd. want to build Namibia's first plant for the production of green hydrogen. As a location for the “Hydrogen Applications Demonstration CenterThe Erongo region on the Atlantic is called. Construction is scheduled to begin this year and commissioning is scheduled for the end of 2023. In a second phase, the facility could be expanded. The project development is the responsibility of the new joint venture Cleanergy Namibia.
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The US energy supplier Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) has commissioned Cummins Inc. to supply a 25 megawatt electrolyser. FLP wants the system for Florida's first green hydrogen production facility "Cavendish NextGen Hydrogen Hub" to use. The energy source is mixed with natural gas and used to drive a power plant turbine at the neighboring FPL Okeechobee Clean Energy Center. The plant, consisting of five Cummins “Hylyzer-1000” PEM electrolyzers, is expected to produce 10,8 tons of hydrogen per day. The companies did not provide any information about investment costs or delivery times.
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The Australian energy company Origin Energy and the chemicals and explosives specialist Orica Ltd. want to build an electrolyser with an output of 55 megawatts in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. The electricity should come from renewable energies and the water from recycled stocks. For now, a study will examine the feasibility of setting up a “Hunter Valley Hydrogen Hubs“ examined.
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Heavy commercial vehicles with fuel cell drives have advantages in long-distance transport, but smaller vehicles in urban areas should rely on battery-electric drives. One comes to this conclusion Short study the Association of Electrical Engineering Electronics Information Technology eV (VDE) and the Association of German Engineers eV (VDI). According to this, battery vehicles are “fundamentally more efficient”, but fuel cell vehicles have “advantages in terms of range and refueling time”. Range in particular is a challenge for battery-powered commercial vehicles. They struggled with the weight of the batteries on board and long charging times. Hydrogen can solve these problems because it has a greater energy density. “No longer supporting the construction and operation of hydrogen filling stations would have fatal consequences. “Politicians are thus hindering the EU requirements for CO2 reduction from heavy trucks,” says Martin Pokojski, Chairman of the VDI/VDE Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Expert Committee. Now is the right time to further expand existing hydrogen filling stations and add new ones. The charging stations and hydrogen filling stations currently do not meet the needs of heavy commercial vehicles. The existing 90 filling stations with 700 bar are only partially suitable for trucks. By 2030, 70 hydrogen filling stations suitable for trucks would have to be built evenly across the motorway network in Germany. Of the 16.100 charging points, only 25 are currently suitable for trucks with batteries. To cover just five percent of the vehicle fleet, 1.200 charging points with a charging capacity of 720 kilowatts would be required.
The short study "Climate-friendly commercial vehicles“ is available as a PDF (44 pages) free of charge.
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The German-Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry is currently examining the market potential of green hydrogen and fuel cell applications in the Philippines on behalf of the Federal Environment Ministry. As part of a Event branch manager Christopher Zimmer explained that they were “convinced that German technology providers could make an important contribution to the energy transition.” The Philippine government wants to increase the share of renewable energies in the country's energy mix to 2030 percent by 35 and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 75 percent.
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The federal government has opened an “Office for Hydrogen Diplomacy” in Saudi Arabia. That is the initiator Foreign Office, it is set up and coordinated by the German Society for International Cooperation GmbH. It is the second connection point of this kind; the first office has been in Abuja (Nigeria) since November 2021. The main task of the hydrogen diplomacy offices is to establish contacts between decision-makers, experts and companies from both countries in order to strengthen cooperation in the hydrogen sector.
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The Canadian First Hydrogen Corp. through its subsidiary First Hydrogen Ltd. A research agreement has been concluded with the University of Cambridge, Great Britain, for an initial period of five years. The focus is on the common Development of hydrogen technologies with a focus on the automotive industry.
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