China Successfully Launched 2000 Nm3/h Electrolyzer, Takes a Leap Forward in Hydrogen Energy Tech

[Caribbeans]

No American has ever even imagined - let alone seen - an electrolyzer this big

CRRC Zhuzhou Institute in China Successfully Launched 2000 Nm³/h Electrolyzer, Taken a Leap Forward in Hydrogen Energy Technology

Zhuzhou, Hunan Province, China, October 12, 2024: CRRC Zhuzhou Institute successfully launched the independently developed 2000 Nm³/h electrolyzer, and unveiled a large-scale flexible green hydrogen production equipment solution, which marks a significant milestone in the company's hydrogen energy industry and injects new vitality into the country’s clean energy development and the realization of the "Dual -Carbon" goals. Mr. Li Donglin, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the company, and Mr. Mei Wenqing, Deputy General Manager, attended the launch ceremony.

The electrolyzer incorporates multiple advanced technologies, boasting industry-leading high current density, ultra-low energy consumption, stable parallel operation, and full automation.



With a maximum current density of 4000 A/m², the electrolyzer achieves a 40% improvement over traditional electrolyzers;

With a DC energy consumption of ? 4.3 kWh/Nm³, meeting the national Tier 1 energy efficiency standard;

Featuring a self-developed intelligent control system, the green hydrogen production system can flexibly adjust its output within a range of 25%-110% to accommodate fluctuating renewable energy conditions;

Offering a solution for minimally or unmanned hydrogen production, the electrolyzer features a real-time monitoring system for cell voltage and temperature, as well as an intelligent operation platform with one-button start/stop and fully automated operation.

The advantages of a 2000 Nm³/h electrolyzer for various applications

Compared to the industry-standard 1000 Nm³/h electrolyzer, a 2000 Nm³/h electrolyzer can significantly reduce project costs for a 1GW green hydrogen production plant. By saving over 21,000 square meters of land (equivalent to three football fields), construction costs are reduced by more than 30%. Additionally, the electrolyzer equipment costs are approximately 20% lower, and reduced piping further contributes to a more than 20% reduction in initial investment...more
https://www.fuelcellchina.com/Industry_information_details/5094.html

China has built the biggest electrolyzer ever made. Most Americans don''t even know what an electrolyzer even is.

RELATED:



Just concluded: The 8th International Hydrogen Energy & Fuel Cell Technology and Product Expo Foshan·China

Hydrogen technology innovation and industrialization, one of the important decarbonization technology routes, is accelerating under the background of “Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutralization”.

Foshan City Nanhai District Huanan New Energy Automobile Industry Promotion Center has held National Hydrogen Energy Week series activity since last six years, which make CHFE as one of the largest hydrogen and fuel cell events in China.

The 8th International Hydrogen Energy & Fuel Cell Technology and Product Expo is scheduled to take place from 18th to 20th October 2024 in Nanhai Qiaoshan Cultural Center, Foshan China, and will cover hydrogen energy infrastructure, fuel cells, core components and materials, fuel cell vehicle manufacturing, industrial cooperation, as well as hydrogen production, storage, transportation, hydrogen utilization, etc., which will provide hydrogen energy people with an annual event with more connotation, creativity, and high quality.

The exhibition area is estimated to exceed 20,000 square metres, with 300+ booths scheduled. It is projected that 300+ companies from around the world would attend the show, with over 10,000 professional attendees...more
https://www.fuelcellchina.com/Industry_details/14.html

RELATED:

China's Hydrogen-Powered Bikes Sell Out 1 Million Units in Just 1 Hour, Leaving U.S &Japan Astonished

Anyone interested in a green future should ask themselves why most- if not all - "American Media" is ignoring these developments.

[Nigrum Cattus]

1. Not true

Hydrogen is a energy carrier. It's all BS, see attached.
https://manhattan.institute/article/green-hydrogen-a-multibillion-dollar-energy-boondoggle

[Think. Again.]

3. We shouldn't post rightwing sources here on DU...

"The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (renamed in 1981 from the International Center for Economic Policy Studies) is an American conservative think tank focused on domestic policy and urban affairs." - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Institute_for_Policy_Research


Yes, Hydrogen is an energy carrier, just like unburned fossil fuels are.

[NNadir]

2. In other news, China risks exploding electrolyzers if they are powered by so called "renewable energy."

Last edited Mon Oct 21, 2024, 06:55 PM - Edit history (1)

While so called "Green Hydrogen" is a trivial bait and switch scam designed to distract from the reality that in China, hydrogen is made from coal, the reality is that even the Potemkin electrolyzers built for display purposes are pretty damned dangerous:

World's largest green hydrogen project 'has major problems due to its Chinese electrolysers': BNEF

And herein are links to Chinese scientists, as opposed to fossil fuel greenwashers talking about what might be involved if everything works out just great - which it has no record of doing - how "green hydrogen" might be available "by 2060."

Plans for "Green" Hydrogen Transition in China: An Amusing Paper Involving Doubly Wasteful Energy Storage.

The caption refers to the supplemental data for the paper, which is free to access and can be found here: Environmental Science & Technology 2024 58 (30), 13263-13272 supplemental data.

Tables S9, S10, and S11 offer soothsaying about various "scenarios" - "scenario" being the IEA terms for soothsaying based on a number of "if" statements, usually involving super optimistic statements about so called "renewable energy" despite the fact that the already trillion dollar expenditures on this lipstick on the fossil fuel pig has done effectively nothing to address extreme global heating, since under the expenditures the rate of extreme global heating is accelerating, not decelerating despite these expenditures.

Only the values from the entry for 2020 are likely to be based on actual data beyond soothsaying. For convenience, I'll produce them here from table S9:



BG refers to biogas reforming, CG, to coal reforming, SMR, steam methane reforming, natural gas reforming, and EXT refers to industrial byproducts, presumably oil refining. Based on the data for 2020, which is probably the most accurate, in "percent talk" that advocates of so called "renewable energy" like to use to obscure its uselessness, 98.88% of the hydrogen used to power those Chinese devices in the ads posted here was generated by the use of dangerous fossil fuels, accompanied by exergy destruction. Solar energy produced 0.3%, hydro, 0.8%.

Bold added.

Apparently, to prevent the risk of explosions, they want to put batteries in the line to waste even more energy and destroy even more exergy.

Right now, with the planet in flames because of bad thinking pushed by cheap dishonest marketing by fossil fuel interests, including but not limited to those rebranding fossil fuels as "hydrogen," the planet is in flames where it's desiccated by heat or drowned where extreme weather strikes, all because fossil fuel interests have been so successfully slick at selling their interests by, for example, rebranding fossil fuels as "hydrogen."

Regrettably, we live in the age of the lie, the chief practitioners of the "art" - if we call it an "art" - being the candidates put forth by the Republican party but the general acceptability of "big lies" is an unfortunate outgrowth of this moral disaster.

Nobody, absolutely nobody, is worried about "falling behind" on electrolyzers, since they remain expensive and, being powered by electricity largely powered by the combustion of dangerous fossil fuels, very dirty as well, since electricity is a thermodynamically degraded form of energy, and thus, China continues to make hydrogen by the steam reforming of coal, being the world's largest, by far, user of coal for this purpose. The rest of the world relies largely on the steam reforming of dangerous natural gas, having better access to it, or reforming oil residues in petroleum refineries.

If the Chinese want to squander money to pretend that they are making hydrogen with so called "renewable energy," money will be better spent elsewhere by embracing clean technology, not wasteful junk.

[Think. Again.]

4. Green Hydrogen neither uses fossil fuels nor emits CO2 in its production or it's energy generation.

[Think. Again.]

5. I wish tne fossil fuel industry didn't hold the U.S. back from taking the lead in the coming clean energy industry.

Oh well, too late now I guess.

[Hekate]

6. Sounds like a Great Leap Forward. Reads like the lengthy paid China "articles" in back of my newspaper.

In other words — color me skeptical of the source and content.