Techno-Economic Assessment of Green H2 Carrier Supply Chains
| Author(s) | Crandall, Bradie S. | |
| Author(s) | Brix, Todd | |
| Author(s) | Weber, Robert S. | |
| Author(s) | Jiao, Feng | |
| Date Accessioned | 2023-02-20T14:55:28Z | |
| Date Available | 2023-02-20T14:55:28Z | |
| Publication Date | 2023-01-19 | |
| Description | This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Energy and Fuels, copyright © 2022 American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.2c03616. This article will be embargoed until 01/19/2024. | |
| Abstract | Green hydrogen can play a key role in affordably decarbonizing society. However, storage and transmission costs pose significant barriers to green hydrogen distribution. These limitations may be overcome with liquid green hydrogen carriers like ammonia, methanol, and toluene/methylcyclohexane, as well as formic acid, which has only recently received limited attention. A techno-economic assessment of these hydrogen carriers is presented across a wide range of scales. Green formic acid is identified to be the most cost-effective carrier when the entire supply-chain cost is considered. Additional analysis shows that formic acid is the only green carrier that is more affordable to produce than its fossil-based counterpart and is the safest of the studied carriers. Finally, research and policy outlooks are provided to guide efforts toward the realization of a green hydrogen economy. This work provides information on the selection of a suitable green hydrogen carrier, which is essential to decarbonize at the rate needed to avoid climate catastrophe. | |
| Sponsor | OCOchem would like to acknowledge the financial support of the U.S. Army and U.S. Department of Energy. Paul Adam, Warren Johnson, Rene Mandeville, and Denis Thibodeau of Sacre-Davey Engineering are acknowledged for aiding in the verification of the modeled hydrogen delivery costs. Sacre-Davey Engineering is a Canadian company with multiple, current utility scale hydrogen projects as well as specific expertise around clean hydrogen production and use. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Award Number DE-EE0009287.0001. This analysis benefited from library and computing resources provided by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PNNL is a multiprogram national laboratory operated for the US Department of Energy by Battelle under contract DE-AC05-76RL01830. Notes The authors declare the following competing financial interest(s): Todd Brix is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of OCO Chem Inc., a company that has commercial interest in electrochemical formic acid production. | |
| Citation | Crandall, Bradie S., Todd Brix, Robert S. Weber, and Feng Jiao. “Techno-Economic Assessment of Green H2 Carrier Supply Chains.” Energy & Fuels 37, no. 2 (January 19, 2023): 1441–50. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.2c03616. | |
| ISSN | 1520-5029 | |
| URL | https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/32331 | |
| Language | en_US | |
| Publisher | Energy Fuels | |
| Keywords | alcohols | |
| Keywords | ammonia | |
| Keywords | electrolysis | |
| Keywords | hydrogen | |
| Keywords | organic acids | |
| Title | Techno-Economic Assessment of Green H2 Carrier Supply Chains | |
| Type | Article |
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