裸聊直播, working with a consortium of industry partners, is part of a project aiming to revolutionise the hydrogen supply chain between Australia and the United Kingdom.
Led by UK, the Hydrogen Production and Supply Chain Affordability, Certification and Traceability project (HyPACT), is focused on improving transparency and sustainability in hydrogen production, with emphasis on the importance of emissions certification, lifecycle emissions and supply chain.
Exploring the hydrogen supply chain
HyPACT aims to map the hydrogen supply chain across continents and explore various hydrogen production pathways. This involves developing comprehensive life cycle assessments and a digitised emissions certification framework for hydrogen produced through different methods. Certification is important because it lets hydrogen producers prove their emissions credentials.
By applying these solutions to industry ventures such as Australian company Hadean Energy's electrolyser and one of EDF's UK-based hydrogen projects, HyPACT aims to demonstrate the efficacy and scalability of its supply chain analysis tools.
Driving decarbonisation in the energy sector
Cranfield鈥檚 involvement in the HyPACT project is focused on two main areas. The first is to develop software that can capture carbon emissions data throughout the hydrogen production supply chain. 鈥淭hat includes everything from production itself right through to elements like transportation鈥�, explains Dr Mingming Zhu, Reader in Chemical Engineering and project lead for Cranfield University. 鈥淭he Cranfield team will also be involved in creating a life cycle analysis of the carbon emissions for hydrogen production.鈥�
Second is the demonstration of hydrogen production which will be used to validate the software, performed in conjunction with Hadean electrolyser and EDF鈥檚 hydrogen project. 鈥淧art of this demonstration will be to show that hydrogen production combined with low carbon electricity production can drive the decarbonisation of the energy sector,鈥� Dr Zhu continues.
Other partners in this project include Certscape, which specializes in digitized carbon emissions certification; Hadean, known for its tubular Solid Oxide Electrolysis; the R&D team at EDF UK, the leading energy company with operations spanning from low carbon electricity generation, energy supply and energy services, and Minviro, providing sustainability solutions and lifecycle assessments.
Clinton Liu, CEO of MCG, said: "There's much talk about hydrogen as the carbon-free fuel of the future, but for that to come to pass we need to substantially develop cost-effective production and supply chains. This project highlights the global impact this technology could have and will help push the developing industry in an exciting new direction.鈥�
