To produce hydrogen molecules, stored and alternate as fuel: Pradhan

Public-quarter oil marketing organizations will scale up hydrogen manufacturing and the packages of hydrogen-enriched compressed natural gas, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan, said on Thursday.

“Presently, as inside the case of other international locations, our petroleum region is the largest manufacturer of hydrogen for diverse refinery system operations,” Pradhan said at a virtual occasion titled Hydrogen Economy. “Hence, we recognize the petroleum quarter’s capability to supply hydrogen molecules, stored and traded as fuel, making it a herbal votary of this new strength shape.”
“It presents us an possibility to make use of present enterprise models and infrastructure not like different e-options,” he said.

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd has been walking a pilot challenge of hydrogen-enriched compressed herbal gasoline (H-CNG) with 50 public delivery buses in Delhi. “We plan to scale it up within the coming months across the fundamental towns of India,” Pradhan said.

“By organising synergies with natural fuel, hydrogen can be without difficulty followed inside the energy blend without looking for predominant infrastructural overhauling. We are searching forward to introducing H-CNG as an intermittent generation in a big way for both automobile and domestic cooking programs,” he delivered. “Efforts are underway to leverage the great CNG pipeline infrastructure to lessen the transportation fee of hydrogen.”

Hydrogen can also be used as “a decarbonizing agent for a number of sectors including industry overlaying chemical compounds, iron, metal, fertilizer and refining, shipping, home and commercial warmness, and power,” he stated.

“Our refineries are making plans to leverage the available surplus hydrogen capacities in grey form for assembly the preliminary call for in mainstreaming hydrogen,” Pradhan stated.

“One of such initiatives is underway at our Gujarat refinery of IndianOil in which the mixture of hydrogen manufacturing thru herbal gasoline and its hyphenation with the carbon capture era, will result in the production of blue hydrogen,” he added. “Multiple buses powered with the aid of fuel cells can be covering various iconic routes.”