Producing totally "green" hydrogen [ Return towards Preparing tomorrow ]
Air Liquide’s researchers have taken up a major challenge: improving hydrogen’s environmental potential even further by limiting CO2 emissions during its production.
Partnership with TOTAL
Air Liquide is one of TOTAL’s partners in the first industrial CO2 capture and storage industrial pilot project in France, in the Lacq basin (southwestern France). The Group is working in a consortium run by the Illinois State Geological Survey (USA) to conduct, through 2009, six real-life tests of CO2 injection.
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One of the solutions for reducing emissions caused by hydrogen production from methane consists in capturing CO2 released from industrial units and transporting it to trap it deep down in the soil. Air Liquide researchers are preparing the new generation of production units that will make this capture possible. And to test this new technology, they are taking part in many demonstration projects on CO2 capture and storage.
Air Liquide researchers are also working on the very heart of the reforming process, to increase its efficiency.
Another approach: the electrolysis of water using the electricity produced without any CO2 emissions. Air Liquide is participating in research projects in this area. The Group produces hydrogen by electrolysis in Bécancour, in Quebec, using electricity, 95% of which comes from hydroelectric dams.
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