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THE 7
th
WORLD HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGY CONVENTION
TOGETHER WITH CZECH HYDROGEN DAYS 2017, 9–12 JULY 2017
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Chiyoda established the technology of “SPERA Hydrogen” system through the pilot plant operation for around 10,000hrs. Now, we are
executing “Hydrogen Supply Chain Demonstration project” by NEDO, in which we will transport hydrogen from South East Asia to Japan
in 2020 for the demonstration. In the Japanese road map, hydrogen utilization for thirmal power generation will be started upto around
2025 after the demonstration in 2020.
We also started a development H
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refueling station by SPERA Hydrogen method and efficient system development of wind firm/alkaline
electrolyzer/SPERA Hydrogen as a renewable power to gas system etc. In the presentation, the SPERA Hydrogen tecnology and system
development, current applied development and its prospects that how to prevent global warming by hydrogen utilization in each sector
will be presented.
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H2FUTURE, Hydrogen from electrolysis for low carbon steelmaking
R. Zauner
1
, T. Buergler
2
, K. Scheffer
3
, I. Kofler
4
, R. Engelmair
5
, M. Weeda
6
1
VERBUND Solutions GmbH, Hydrogen & Storage, Vienna, Austria
2
Voestalpine Stahl GmbH, Linz, Austria
3
Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany
4
K1-MET GmbH, Linz, Austria
5
APG AG, Vienna, Austria
6
ECN, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The H2FUTURE
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project aims to make hydrogen sufficiently affordable in the future so it can act as an energy carrier in a low-carbon
energy system. In a 4.5-year, €18 million field demonstration project, a consortium, led by Austrian-based utility VERBUND, will construct
and operate one of the world’s largest proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysis plants for producing green hydrogen for the steel
industry.
A 6MW state-of-the-art Siemens electrolyser will be built and operated on the premises of voestalpine in Linz, Austria, and the hydrogen
produced will be integrated into regular operations at the steelworks. As such, the project is an innovative step in the development
of a route for steelmaking using pure hydrogen, where iron ore is directly reduced by hydrogen in a shaft furnace. By producing hydrogen
from electrolysis and using renewable electricity for electrolysis, this process scheme offers a promising route to low-carbon steelmaking.
As part of the project, the electrolyser will be prequalified with the support of APG, the Austrian TSO, in order to provide grid-balancing
services such as primary, secondary or tertiary reserves while utilising the commercial pools of VERBUND. The demonstration is split into
five pilot tests and an 18-month quasi-commercial operation to show that the PEM electrolyser is able both to use timely power price
opportunities and to attract additional revenues from grid services.
The achievement of capital cost reduction and other technical, economic and environmental performance targets will be analysed
by knowledge institutes ECN and K1-MET. This will be done based on data resulting from an extensive pilot plant test programme and
quasi-commercial operation.
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This project has received funding from the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2 Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No 735503. This Joint
Undertaking receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and Hydrogen Europe and
N.ERGHY.
Cross-cutting Issues
CCI-O01
Metrological hydrogen fuel research supporting standardisation needs
F. Haloua
1
, T. Bacquart
2
, K. Arrhenius
3
, B. Delobelle
4
, H. Ent
5
1
LNE- Laboratoire National de métrologie et d’Essais, Materials Department, Trappes, France
2
NPL- National Physical Laboratory, Gas and Particle Metrology Group, Teddington, United Kingdom
3
RISE- Research Institutes of Sweden, Bioscience and Materials Chemistry- Materials and Surfaces, Borås, Sweden
4
MAHYTEC, Hydrogen storage, Dole, France
5
VSL- Van Swinden Laboratory, Chemistry group, Delft, The Netherlands
The Project « Metrology for sustainable hydrogen energy applications » of the
European Metrology Programme for Innovation and
Research
supports the standardisation process through normative metrology research in the hydrogen fuel sector that meets the re-
quirements of the European Directive 2014/94/EU.
The overall objective is to address the standardisation needs by feeding the revision of two ISO standards that are currently too generic
to enable a sustainable implementation of hydrogen.
The hydrogen purity dispensed at refueling points does not comply with the technical specifications of ISO 146872 for fuel cell electric
vehicles. The rapid progress of the fuel cell technology requires now revising this standard towards less constraining limits. While ensuring
the specifications, optimized validated analytical methods are proposed to reduce the number of analyses.
Traceable methods to assess accurately the hydrogen mass absorbed and stored in metal hydrides will be developed and validated; this
is a research axis for the revision of the ISO 16111 standard to develop this safe storage technique for hydrogen.