The US Department of Energy (DoE) will invest $20m to advance hydrogen production and delivery technologies through ten new research and development (R&D) projects.
In addition to economically producing and delivering hydrogen to power fuel cells from diverse, domestic and renewable resources, advancing the technologies will enable substantial reductions in energy use and carbon emissions.
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Six of the ten hydrogen production R&D projects will produce, deliver and dispense hydrogen at less than $4 per gallon of the gasoline equivalent.
The DOE will finance $900,000 to FuelCell Energy to develop a novel hybrid system for low-cost, low greenhouse gas hydrogen production while Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will receive $2.2m for the development of a reactor for hydrogen production from bio-derived liquids.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory and University of Hawaii of Honolulu will each receive $3m to develop high-efficiency tandem absorbers capable of producing hydrogen from water using solar energy and to develop photoelectrodes for direct solar water splitting respectively.
Additionally, Sandia National Laboratories will receive $2.2m to develop an innovative high-efficiency solar thermochemical reactor for solar hydrogen production and University of Colorado will receive $2m to develop a novel solar-thermal reactor to split water with concentrated sunlight.
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By GlobalDataThe remaining four hydrogen delivery R&D projects will address the cost of compression, storage and dispensing at the station aimed to meet the hydrogen cost goal of less than $4 per gallon.
Southwest Research Institute will receive $1.8m from the US DoE to demonstrate a hydrogen compression system while Nuvera Fuel Cells will receive $1.5m to design and demonstrate an integrated, intelligent high pressure hydrogen dispenser for fuel cell electric vehicle fueling.
In addition to this, Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be provided $2m to demonstrate a low-cost, steel concrete composite vessel for high-pressure hydrogen storage and Wiretough Cylinders will receive $2m to demonstrate a low-cost high-pressure hydrogen storage vessel using a steel wire overwrap.
