Hydrogen power plant pilot highlights resurgence of humble chemical element
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An example of the hydrogen fuel cell that will power Northern Oil's Gladstone facility.
It is often associated with nuclear bombs and overzealous hype in the 1970s, but now the idea of hydrogen as a clean energy source
is making a comeback in Australia.
In central Queensland, there are now several hydrogen energy projects in the pipeline.
The Australian company Northern Oil is set to build the first hydrogen fuel cell in Queensland at its pilot biofuels refinery in
Gladstone in early 2019.
What is renewable hydrogen?
- Hydrogen is a carrier of energy
- Renewable hydrogen is produced by purifying seawater, then separating the hydrogen and oxygen via electrolysis
- The process of separation is powered by solar or wind energy
- The hydrogen becomes a vehicle for storing renewable energy such as solar or wind
- It is converted into transportable forms for export
Announcing it this week, the company's Troy Collins described this as "no small feat"."It's something everybody in Gladstone should be very proud of," he said.
The State Government has also been in talks with Japanese experts about building a solar-to-hydrogen plant in central
Queensland that would export hydrogen gas out of Gladstone's port.