One of the priorities in energy field research programs of European Union (UE) is to identify some strategic technologies that can contribute to the shift towards a low-carbon economy by 2050. This is particularly true for the transport sector that today is marked by an extreme dependency on oil. In this area, hydrogen production technologies and the Fuel Cell (FC) systems will play an extremely important role in the portfolio for the future mobility sector. Distributed production of hydrogen is the most feasible approach for introducing hydrogen as an energy carrier in the near term. This approach requires less capital investment for the smaller capacity of hydrogen initially needed, and it does not require a substantial hydrogen transport and delivery infrastructure. The installation of infrastructure for refueling hydrogen should go hand in hand with the entry not only into the automotive market of fuel cell vehicles but also into the naval transport sector. In this regards, the report, "Global Market for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles," reports that by 2020, sufficient hydrogen filling infrastructures would be in place in several regions of the world, giving an initial boost to the market for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. In this policy, it is of strategic value to carried out efforts to have suitable and effective-cost hydrogen production technologies. At moment, among these ones i) reforming of natural gas, biogas or liquid bio-fuels, ii) gasification of biomasses and iii) water electrolysis seem to be promising for near-term, providing that critical aspects of such technologies are solved.
ADVANCEMENT IN HYDROGEN DEVICE DEVELOPMENT FOR TRANSPORT APPLICATIONS (IN EUROPE)
Vitaliano Chiodo;Salvatore Freni
2016
Abstract
One of the priorities in energy field research programs of European Union (UE) is to identify some strategic technologies that can contribute to the shift towards a low-carbon economy by 2050. This is particularly true for the transport sector that today is marked by an extreme dependency on oil. In this area, hydrogen production technologies and the Fuel Cell (FC) systems will play an extremely important role in the portfolio for the future mobility sector. Distributed production of hydrogen is the most feasible approach for introducing hydrogen as an energy carrier in the near term. This approach requires less capital investment for the smaller capacity of hydrogen initially needed, and it does not require a substantial hydrogen transport and delivery infrastructure. The installation of infrastructure for refueling hydrogen should go hand in hand with the entry not only into the automotive market of fuel cell vehicles but also into the naval transport sector. In this regards, the report, "Global Market for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles," reports that by 2020, sufficient hydrogen filling infrastructures would be in place in several regions of the world, giving an initial boost to the market for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. In this policy, it is of strategic value to carried out efforts to have suitable and effective-cost hydrogen production technologies. At moment, among these ones i) reforming of natural gas, biogas or liquid bio-fuels, ii) gasification of biomasses and iii) water electrolysis seem to be promising for near-term, providing that critical aspects of such technologies are solved.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
