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EFFECTIVE USE OFHYDROGEN IN TRANSPORTATION
Presentation to:
INDIA ENERGY CONFERENCENew Delhi, IndiaOctober, 2008
Frank LynchEden Hydrogen
Littleton, Colorado, USA
Hydrogen is the most abundantelement in the universe (~90%).
http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys240/lectures/elements/elements.html
• The Earth is a water planet.
• 70% of Earth is covered by water.
• 2/3 of H2O is H2.
• Energy must separate H2O to Make H2.
Photo courtesy of NASA
RENEWABLE H2 ENERGY SYSTEM
H2O
H2PLANT
H2O
H2 TRANSPORT
H2 FCCAR
POWER
RENEWABLEENERGY
H2 STOR.
H2 DIST.
Hydrogen Energy System Goal:Make Energy Use Part Of Earth’s Water Cycle
1 million m3/day Martinez, California, USA Photo Courtesy of Air Products
•Most hydrogen is made by steam-methane reformers and used on-site to make fertilizers, methanol and other chemicals.
• Some of the largest reformers are used at oil refineries for processing petroleum.
• So-called “merchant hydrogen” is produced at one location and is transported to an end-user by truck, rail or barge.
•Most merchant hydrogen is liquefied at the plant and stored for filling -253ºC “cryo” tank trucks.
Liquid Hydrogen Tankers Distribute Most Merchant HydrogenPhoto Courtesy of Air Products
13,000 Gallons -253°C Inside
Photo courtesy of Eden Cryogenics
Cryogenic storage “dewars”can be built at any scale.
This 420-liter container was built for NASA by Eden Cryogenics. It is suitable for liquid nitrogen, liquid oxygen or liquid hydrogen.
Hydrogen is special stuff!
• Simple displacement of petroleum with H2 is not economically possible today.
• Hydrogen must deliver a premium value to justify its premium price.
• Fuel cells deliver premium value with zero emissions and high efficiency.
• Hythane delivers premium value with low emissions and high efficiency.
Hythane®* prototype 1990Hythane is H2 in natural gas.
*Hythane is a Registered Trademark of Eden Hydrogen
Forms of “Leverage” (premium value)
• Emissions Leverage: emissions reductions exceed the H2 energy in Hythane.
• Efficiency Leverage: efficiency increases exceed the H2 energy in Hythane.
• Economic Leverage: Co-product streams have high value (e.g., Cl2, C nanotubes).
Transmission electron microscope images of carbon nanotubes
Structure of one type of nanotube
H2 and C nanotubes are co-products of a process under development by U. Queensland for Eden Hydrogen.
CO2 emissions are zero for this process.
The high value of C nanotubes and C credits makes H2 cost-competitive.
Photos courtesy of U. Queensland and Wikipedia
The 787 “is an airframe comprising nearly half carbon fiber reinforced plastic and other composites…weight savings on average of 20 percent…”
Photo and quote from Boeing website
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