Cummins, Sinopec, Oberon Fuels and More – The Latest Green Hydrogen Initiatives from Power-to-Hydrogen, Methane, DME

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January 5, 2022

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by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest) … What about the different routes to get that lovely green hydrogen? From splitting water via excess green power (power-to-hydrogen), to stripping hydrogen out of renewable methane or out of DME, here’s a look at some of the latest hydrogen initiatives.

In today’s Digest, from Cummins and Sinopec’s new JV to produce green hydrogen to Oberon Fuels producing hydrogen from DME, Repsol and Raven using biogas and municipal solid waste to produce green hydrogen, and the latest green hydrogen initiatives and news.

Cummins and Sinopec’s green hydrogen JV and power-to-hydrogen initiatives

Starting with one of the methods to produce hydrogen (power-to-hydrogen), there came news that Cummins Inc. and China Petrochemical Corporation (“Sinopec Group”) formed a 50:50 joint venture — Cummins Enze (Guangdong) Hydrogen Technology Co., Ltd (“Cummins Enze”). The joint venture will accelerate the affordability and availability of green hydrogen through increased technological innovation, research and development, and manufacturing capacity.

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Waste not, want not – Hydrogen from methane and biogas

Repsol is an interesting example of a strong green hydrogen strategy, with their release of a $2.96B green hydrogen strategy in October. Their goal? To become the market leader in the Iberian Peninsula and become the third largest producer in Europe. Repsol plans to use different technologies to reach a capacity of 552 MW equivalent in 2025 and 1.9 GW in 2030 and already announced that it will install electrolyzer plants at its industrial complexes.

Additionally, the company is adapting its conventional hydrogen production infrastructures to obtain renewable hydrogen from biogas, using different circular economy technologies, among others.

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Hydrogen from rDME

“rDME is an ideal carrier for hydrogen fuel” according to Oberon Fuels. Why? Well, to start, DME is particularly dense in hydrogen, with six hydrogen atoms in each DME molecule. DME can be made from a wide variety of renewable feedstocks at or near the source. DME liquefies at low pressure (~73 psi), making it much easier and less expensive to transport than hydrogen, which can be compressed at up to 10,000 psi of pressure. Converting DME into hydrogen a simple, inexpensive process compared to natural gas to hydrogen conversion. READ MORE

CUMMINS AND SINOPEC OFFICIALLY LAUNCH JOINT VENTURE TO PRODUCE GREEN HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGIES IN CHINA (Cummins)

bp plans major green hydrogen project in Teesside (bp)

Green hydrogen: EW Höfe, Alpiq and SOCAR Energy Switzerland mark a new milestone (Alpiq)

The Government supports 79 innovative renewable energy projects in the industrial fabric (Government of Spain Institute for the Diversification and Saving of Energy (IDAE))

Raven SR Partners with Republic Services to produce commercial green hydrogen in Northern California, starting summer 2022 (Republic Services)

Funding helps UK distilleries fuel a greener future (UK government)

rDME is an ideal carrier for hydrogen fuel (Oberon Fuels)

Cummins scaling Belgium electrolyzer manufacturing capacity to 1 gigawatt through IPCEI support (Cummins)

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