Challenges of Industrial-Scale Testing Infrastructure for Green Hydrogen Technologies

Bollmann, Jonas; Pitchaimuthu, Sudhagar; Kuehnel, Moritz; Pitchaimuthu, Sudhagar

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Challenges of Industrial-Scale Testing Infrastructure for Green Hydrogen Technologies

Jonas Bollmann, Sudhagar Pitchaimuthu, Moritz Kuehnel, Sudhagar Pitchaimuthu

Energies, Volume: 16, Issue: 8, Start page: 3604

Swansea University Authors: Moritz Kuehnel, Sudhagar Pitchaimuthu

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Green hydrogen is set to become the energy carrier of the future, provided that production technologies such as electrolysis and solar water splitting can be scaled to global dimensions. Testing these hydrogen technologies on the MW scale requires the development of dedicated new test facilities for...

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