A Simulated Roadmap of Hydrogen Technology Contribution to Climate Change Mitigation Based on Representative Concentration Pathways Considerations

Stavros Lazarou; Vasiliki Vita; Maria Diamantaki; Diotima Karanikolou-Karra; George Fragoyiannis; Sofoklis Makridis; Lambros Ekonomou

Abstract

Hydrogen as fuel has been a promising technology toward climate change mitigation efforts. To this end, in this paper we analyze the contribution of hydrogen technology to our future environmental goals. It is assumed that hydrogen is being produced in higher efficiency across time and this is simulated on Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM). The environmental restrictions applied are the expected emissions representative concentration pathways (RCP) 2.6, 4.5, and 6.0. Our results have shown increasing hydrogen production as the environmental constraints become stricter and hydrogen more efficient in being produced. This increase has been quantified and provided on open access as Supporting Information to this manuscript.

© 2018 The Authors. Energy Science & Engineering published by the Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License,

Funding source: The authors acknowledge financial support for the open source publication of this work from the Special Account for Research of ASPETE through the funding program “Strengthening research of ASPETE faculty members”.

Keywords: Climate Change Mitigation ; Future Gas Policy & the Hydrogen Economy ; Global Change Assessment Model ; Hydrogen as Fuel ; Representative Concentration Pathways

Related subjects: Policy & Socio-Economics

Countries: Greece