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25/06/22 06:33 AM IST

Green Hydrogen and Green Ammonia

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  • Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers and Health & Family Welfare, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya addressed a seminar being organized on the subject ‘Production and use of Green Hydrogen and Green Ammonia in Process Industry’ by Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Delhi, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (Northern Regional Centre).
Green Hydrogen Mission 
  • On India’s 75th Independence Day (15th August, 2021) the Prime Minister announced the National Hydrogen Mission.
  • Under the Mission, India is targeting to produce three-fourths of its hydrogen from renewable resources by 2050.
  • The Mission under the Ministry of Power, aims to support India in meeting its Sustainable climate goals.
  • Hydrogen is seen as the potential fuel to replace fossil fuels in future.
  • It will help India in increasing its renewable energy capacity.
  • This will help the government in achieving the target of 450 GW Renewable Energy by 2030.
Hydrogen as a fuel 
  • Hydrogen is a clean fuel and an efficient energy carrier.
  • Hydrogen is found in water, organic compounds and hydrocarbons such as petrol, natural gas, methanol and propane.
  • Hydrogen is high in energy content as it contains 120.7 MJ/kg, which is the highest for any known fuel. However, its energy content compared to volume is rather low. This poses challenges with regard to its storage for civilian applications, when compared to storage of liquid fossil fuels.
  • When burnt, hydrogen produces water as a by-product and is, therefore, environmentally benign.
  • Although no CO2, etc. are produced if hydrogen is burnt in air, yet NOx will be formed at high temperatures.
  • One of the advantages of hydrogen as a fuel is that it can be used directly in the existing internal combustion engines and turbines.
Source- PIB 

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