H2FUTURE Electrolyzer produced more than 500 tons of Green Hydrogen
The H2FUTURE electrolyzer has been running since November 2019 and has now produced over 500 tonnes of green hydrogen during the test scenarios and in quasi-commercial operation.
The H2FUTURE demonstration project is primarily concerned with the production and use of green hydrogen for the steel industry. For decarbonisation, voestalpine plans to gradually switch to green electricity and, in the long term, green hydrogen. This will require around 340.000 tonnes of green hydrogen, which is more than 400 times the H2FUTURE capacity. The hydrogen produced so far in the pilot plant would correspond to the production of only 8.800 tonnes of "green steel". The challenges therefore lie in upscaling to large industrial scale, in the availability of green hydrogen and in economic viability.
The H2FUTURE project still runs until the end of 2021 and the whole project team is very curious to find out how much green hydrogen will be produced by the end of the year.
Picture: H2FUTURE "bubbles" copyrigth: voestalpine