Lecture
Progress of the brown coal derived hydrogen supply chain demonstration project
2022 Volume 87 Issue 1 Pages 79-85
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2022 Volume 87 Issue 1 Pages 79-85
The world has changed its direction widely towards the realization of the CO2-free society by the Paris Agreement issued in 2015. In Japan, prior to the Paris Agreement, the usage of large amount of hydrogen was proposed by the several sectors through the hydrogen and fuel cell strategy road map issued in June, 2014. Also, the Prime Minister Suga declared the realization of carbon neutral by 2050 at the time of his policy speech in October, 2020 and demonstration of CO2-free hydrogen supply chain became urgent need. Under those situations, CO2-free Hydrogen Energy Supply-chain Technology Research Association has been established by the four companies comprises Iwatani Corporation, Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., Shell Japan Limited and Electric Power Development Co., Ltd. in 2016 towards the realization of commercial hydrogen supply chain in 2030. At the moment, research and development（R&D） has been carried out for the demonstration in 2021 through the adoption of Demonstration Project for Establishment of Mass Hydrogen Marine Transportation Supply Chain Derived from unused Brown Coal funded by the subject setting type industrial technical development subsidy of NEDO.
In this demonstration project, the following R&D has been carried out which is "brown coal gasification technology",
"technology of loading distance transportation of mass liquefied hydrogen" and "liquefied hydrogen loading and unloading technologies".
The progress status of R&D is reported below.
