If there is an area where hydrogen has its place in mobility, it is that of maritime transport. Between Energy Observer, a racing catamaran converted into a demonstrator of the seas, which produces its hydrogen to demonstrate the possibility of energy autonomy (see our UOSP section), sea shuttles and the management of large docks to avoid pollution due to Diesel engines in the ports, without forgetting the taxis boats, hydrogen has a first choice place. On the Seine, Cemex, a building material company, works to develop a hydrogen pusher “zero emission” to move barges of up to 2,800 tonnes between…
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The construction industry, but also the army and the ports may well be interested in hydrogen generators, such as Mobyl Power, a range offered by Powidian. This specialist in energy independence of land was retained by the port of Rotterdam for a test in 2020. The port indeed wants the boats to let their engine run when they are at the quay and plans to supply them in decarbonized electricity. A movement that is observed in many ports. Hydrogen generators should interest many professions. Thus more and more cities ask that the construction works of buildings and roads be decarbonized.…
Considered the world leader in diesel engines for heavy goods vehicles, Cummins turns to fuel cells (CAP). At the end of June, Cummins partially acquired the producer of Hydrogenics PAC, a subsidiary of The Hydrogen Company, emanation of Air Liquid. Then in September, he entered the capital of Loop Energy. This Canadian company optimizes CAPs thanks to its E – Flow incoming air flow management. At the end of September, Cummins decided to develop with Hyundai electric propellant groups intended for transport vehicles. This agreement will associate the teams of the two giants on these groups, but also on the…
We had tried them in early 2019 in Vannes, they were put forward at the G7 of Biarritz this summer: Pragma hydrogen bikes were indeed attraction, in a city prohibited for traffic for a weekend weekend . These bikes made by a city company are already present in Cherbourg, Chambéry, Bayonne and of course Biarritz. For the founder of Pragma, Pierre Forté, if hydrogen is suitable for heavy vehicles, it is also in bikes, especially those in self-service. For these parks (self-service bikes), energy and recharges represent two thirds of operational costs. More autonomous than an electric bike, quickly rechargeable,…
Nearly a million tonnes of hydrogen are used each year in industry, chemical and petrochemicals in particular. The CAP set by the government is that 10 % in 2023 and then 20 to 40 % in 2028 of this energy, with green hydrogen. This involves improving performance and the deployment of electrolysis, coupled with increased production of renewable electricity. Overview. According to a report published on June 14, 2019 by the International Energy Agency (AIE), hydrogen manufacturing costs could fall by 30 % by 2030 and lead “to a change of scale hydrogen production ”. As recalled in the multi…
One hundred million euros have been mobilized by the French government in its plan to deploy hydrogen in industry, mobility and energy. While experiments have multiplied in recent years, the first concrete achievements are beginning to emerge. Focus on a sector in full swing. Taxi, bus, stations, the achievements of hydrogen mobility are the most visible part of the sector, but, at the same time, the carbon-free industry and the production sector are being established everywhere in France. With the legislative framework put in place – climate-energy law, hydrogen plan and multi-annual energy programming (PPE) – oriented towards carbon neutrality…
All over the country, projects and achievements for the production of green hydrogen are increasing. Reminder of the processes with some examples. Today, 95% of available hydrogen is produced from energy by steam reforming of natural gas: in the presence of superheated water vapor, the carbon atoms © of methane (CH4) dissociate and rearrange to form hydrogen. one side of dihydrogen (H2) and the other of carbon dioxide (CO2), with a negative carbon balance. Another possible process with ongoing experiments is the gasification and pyrolysis of biomass, particularly wood: burned at very high temperatures (1,200°C to 1,500°C), it releases gases…
Ports and airports are places where mobility and industry come together. It is therefore naturally in these sectors of intense economic activity that various projects around hydrogen have been developed. Other deployment projects often come from the desire of local elected officials combining the skills of cutting-edge companies. Some examples among others that you can find in the AFHYPAC Vig’hy maps. Territorial projects, which often combine production and industrial use or mobility of hydrogen, are increasing. They are presented, as well as the actual achievements, on the Vig’hy site. Thus the SEM (mixed economy company) Eveer’hy’pôle d’Albi, created 10 years…
Hydrogen bus lines are increasing in the country. Rapid recharge, daily autonomy, captive fleet and zero emission: hydrogen seems to have been tailor -made for the uses of urban buses. For communities as well as for private industries, it is also an opportunity to develop a local hydrogen station with a minimum amount of consumption. First lines awaiting the offer of the Union of Public Purchasing Groups (UGAP). The first lines The month of September saw the opening of several hydrogen bus lines after those of this summer. The cost of purchasing these buses is however twice as high as…
New technology makes it possible to store hydrogen in “solid” form. Using magnesium, hydrogen from electrolysis is trapped in metal hydride. This innovation would make it possible to resolve the problems posed by storage (cost, dangerousness), because until now it was necessary to liquefy hydrogen at minus 253 degrees or compress it to more than 200 bars minimum to reduce its volume. The Franco-Swiss company Aaqius has developed a small storage solution, a kind of metal can, called STOR-H. The process would be safe and completely reversible. Two STOR‑H cans the size of soda cans could give an electric scooter…