United Kingdom
Towards Sustainable Mobility: A Systematic Review of Hydrogen Refueling Station Security Assessment and Risk Prevention
Jan 2025
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The signing of the Paris Agreement in 2016 established the goals of countries around the world for the transition from traditional fossil energy to sustainable energy in the 21st century. Reduce carbon emissions using new sustainable energy sources while safeguarding the energy needs of social development. The advantages of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles such as no carbon emissions long battery life and short hydrogenation time make them the developmen Read More
Roadmap to Reach Global Net Zero Emissions for Developing Regions by 2085
Jan 2025
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As climate change intensifies determining a developing region’s role in achieving net-zero emissions worldwide is crucial. However regional efforts considering historical emissions remain underexplored. Here we assess energy system changes technology adoption and investments needed for developing regions including five major- and minor-emitting nations. Our analysis using an integrated assessment model shows a large gap in regional efforts Read More
European Hydrogen Train the Trainer Programme for Responders: The Impact of HyResponder on Training Across Europe
Jan 2025
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Síle Brennan,
Christian Brauner,
Dennis Davis,
Natalie DeBacker,
Alexander Dyck,
César García Hernández,
André Vagner Gaathaug,
Petr Kupka,
Laurence Grand-Clement,
Etienne Havret,
Deborah Houssin-Agbomson,
Laurent Lecomte,
Eric Maranne,
Pippa Steele,
Paola Russo,
Adolfo Pinilla,
Gerhard Schoepf,
Tom Van Esbroeck and
Vladimir V. Molkov
The impact of the HyResponder project on the training of responders in 10 European countries is described. An overview is presented of training activities undertaken within the project in Austria Belgium Czech Republic France Germany Italy Norway Spain Switzerland and the United Kingdom. National leads with training expertise are given and the longer-term plans in each region are mentioned. Responders from each region took part in a specially tailored Read More
Review on Onshore and Offshore Large-scale Seasonal Hydrogen Storage for Electricity Generation: Focusing on Improving Compression, Storage, and Roundtrip Efficiency
Jun 2024
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This article presents a comprehensive review of the current landscape and prospects of large-scale hydrogen storage technologies with a focus on both onshore and offshore applications and flexibility. Highlighting the evolving technological advancements it explores storage and compression techniques identifying potential research directions and avenues for innovation. Underwater hydrogen storage and hybrid metal hydride com pressed gas tan Read More
Energy White Paper: Powering our Net Zero Future
Dec 2020
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The Prime Minister’s Ten Point Plan has set out the measures that will help ensure the UK is at the forefront of this revolution just as we led the first over two centuries ago. As nations move out of the shadow of coronavirus and confront the challenge of climate change with renewed vigour markets for new green products and services will spring up round the world. Taking action now will help ensure not just that we end our contribution to climate change by Read More
Hydrogen Storage in Depleted Gas Reservoirs with Carbon Dioxide as a Cushion Gas: Exploring a Lateral Gas Seperation Strategy to Reduce Gas Mixing
Jan 2025
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Large-scale H2 storage in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs offers a practical way to use existing energy infra structure to address renewable energy intermittency. Cushion gases often constitute a large initial investment especially when expensive H2 is used. Cheaper alternatives such as CO2 or in-situ CH4 can reduce costs and in the case of CO2 integrate within carbon capture and storage systems. This study explored cushion and working gas dyna Read More
Assessing the Viability of Renewable Hydrogen, Ammonia, and Methanol in Decarbonizing Heavy-duty Trucks
Jan 2025
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Decarbonizing heavy-duty trucks (HDTs) is both challenging and crucial for achieving carbon neutrality in the transport sector. Renewable hydrogen (H2) methanol (MeOH) and ammonia (NH3) offer potential solutions yet their economic viability and emission benefits remain largely unexplored. This study presents for the first time a comprehensive techno-economic analysis of using these three renewable fuels to decarbonize HDTs through detailed f Read More
Design and Optimal Sizing of a Hydrogen Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) System for Addressing Residential Power Cutoffs
Jan 2025
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Hydrogen (H2) offers a green medium for storing the excess from renewables production instead of dumping it thus being crucial to decarbonisation efforts. Hydrogen also offers a storage medium for the grid’s cheap electricity to be used during grid peak demand or grid power cutoffs. Funded by the Scottish Government’s Emerging Energy Technologies this paper presents the design and performance analysis of a hydrogen uninterruptible power suppl Read More
Advances in Hydrogen Storage Technologies
Jan 2025
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Gaseous hydrogen storage is the most mature technology for fuel cell vehicles. The main safety concern is the catastrophic consequences of tank rupture in a fire i.e. blast waves fireballs and projectiles. This paper sum marises research on the development and validation of the breakthrough microleaks-no-burst (μLNB) safety technology of explosion-free in any fire self-venting Type IV tanks that do not require a thermally-activate pressure relief device (TP Read More
Performance Test of a Hydrogen-powered Solid Oxide Fuel Cell System and its Simulation for Vehicle Propulsion Application
Dec 2024
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Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) have not received enough attention as a power source in the transportation sector. However with the development of the technology its advantages over other types of fuel cells such as fuel flexibility and high energy efficiency have made SOFC an interesting option. The present study aims at simulation and experimentally validation of the performance of a hydrogen-powered SOFC in an automotive application. A 6 kW SOF Read More
Renewable Hydrogen Trade, in a Global Decarbonised Energy System
Jan 2025
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Renewable hydrogen has emerged as a potentially critical energy carrier for achieving climate change mitigation goals. International trade could play a key role in meeting hydrogen demand in a globally decarbonized energy system. To better understand this role we have developed a modelling framework that incorporates hydrogen supply and demand curves and a market equilibrium model to maximize social welfare. Applying this framework we investi Read More
A Comprehensive Review on Liquid Hydrogen Transfer Operations and Safety Considerations for Mobile Applications
Dec 2024
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The adoption of liquid hydrogen (LH2) as an energy carrier presents significant opportunities for distributing large quantities of hydrogen efficiently. However ensuring safety of LH2 transfer operations requires the evo lution of suitable technologies and regulatory framework. This study offers an extensive overview of technical considerations and safety aspects pertaining to liquid hydrogen installations and mobile applications. A signif icant lack of regulations Read More
Understanding Costs in Hydrogen Infrastructure Networks: A Multi-stage Approach for Spatially-aware Pipeline Design
Jan 2025
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The emergence and design of hydrogen transport infrastructures are crucial steps towards the development of a hydrogen economy. However pipeline routing remains underdeveloped in hydrogen infrastructure design models despite its significant impact on the resultant cost and network configuration. Many previous studies assume uniform cost surfaces on which pipelines are designed. Studies that consider a variable cost surface focus on desig Read More
Modeling and Optimization of Renewable Hydrogen Systems: A Systematic Methodological Review and Machine Learning Integration
Nov 2024
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The renewable hydrogen economy is recognized as an integral solution for decarbonizing energy sectors. However high costs have hindered widespread deployment. One promising way of reducing the costs is optimization. Optimization generally involves finding the configuration of the renewable generation and hydrogen system components that maximizes return on investment. Previous studies have included many aspects into their optimisations incl Read More
Evaluation of Regional and Temporal Dynamics in CCUS-Hydrogen Development Pathways: A Data-driven Framework
Dec 2024
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China as both a major energy consumer and the largest carbon emitter globally views carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) hydrogen production as a crucial and innovative technology for achieving its dual carbon goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. The development of such technologies requires strong policy guidance making the quantification of policy pathways essential for understanding their effectiveness. This study employs a Read More
In-house Green Hydrogen Production for Steelmaking Decarbonisation using Steel Slag as Thermal Energy Storage Material: A Life Cycle Assessment
Nov 2024
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Steel production is a highly energy-intensive industry responsible for significant greenhouse gas emissions. Electrification of this sector is challenging making green hydrogen technology a promising alternative. This research performs a thermodynamic analysis of green hydrogen production for steel manufacturing using the direct reduction method. Four solid oxide electrolyzer (SOE) modules replace the traditional reformer to produce 2.88 kg/s of hydrogen Read More
Hydrogen from Wastewater by Photocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical Treatment
Dec 2020
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In recent years the intensification of human activities has led to an increase in waste production and energy demand. The treatment of pollutants contained in wastewater coupled to energy recovery is an attractive solution to simultaneously reduce environmental pollution and provide alternative energy sources. Hydrogen represents a clean energy carrier for the transition to a decarbonized society. Hydrogen can be generated by photosynthetic water split Read More
A Multi-model Assessment of the Global Warming Potential of Hydrogen
Jun 2025
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With increasing global interest in molecular hydrogen to replace fossil fuels more attention is being paid to potential leakages of hydrogen into the atmosphere and its environmental consequences. Hydrogen is not directly a greenhouse gas but its chemical reactions change the abundances of the greenhouse gases methane ozone and stratospheric water vapor as well as aerosols. Here we use a model ensemble of five global atmospheric c Read More
Conceptual Design and Aerostructural Trade-Offs in HydrogenPowered Strut-Braced Wing Aircraft: Insights into Dry and Wet Ultra-High Aspect Ratio Wings
Jan 2025
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Stringent sustainability goals are set for the next generation of aircraft. A promising novel airframe concept is the ultra-high aspect ratio Strut-Braced Wing (SBW) aircraft. Hydrogen-based concepts are active contenders for sustainable propulsion. The study compares a medium-range Liquid Hydrogen (LH2) to a kerosene-based SBW aircraft designed with the same top-level requirements. For both concepts overall design operating costs and emissions are Read More
PyPSA-Earth Sector-coupled: A Global Open-source Multi-energy System Model Showcased for Hydrogen Applications in Countries of the Global South
Jan 2025
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This study presents sector-coupled PyPSA-Earth: a novel global open-source energy system optimization model that incorporates major demand sectors and energy carriers in high spatial and temporal resolution to enable energy transition studies worldwide. The model includes a workflow that automatically downloads and processes the necessary demand supply and transmission data to co-optimize investment and operation of energy systems of cou Read More
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