Get the most out of Green H2 - with proven MR Solutions

2024-7-16 MR

  The emission targets can only be achieved if massive amounts of green hydrogen are produced soon. For this to work, it also depends on the clever use of components such as on-load tap-changers.

The big goal is to keep global warming within tolerable limits. To achieve this, experts say that CO2 emissions must be reduced to zero by 2050 at the latest. Mankind therefore only has around 25 years left to stop burning fossil fuels such as gas and oil. The most important strategy of the states and private actors is called "electrification." But that alone is far from enough. It also needs a rapid and gigantic expansion of hydrogen infrastructure. MR has had experience with the production of hydrogen since 1992: the combination of vacuum on-load tap-changers and perfectly matched power quality solutions will facilitate the expansion.

Zero CO2 only works with lots of H2

The idea behind electrification: Instead of energy from fossil combustion, it should be renewably produced, electrical energy. In other words, e-cars instead of gasoline-powered cars, heat pumps instead of gas boilers, and so on. However, according to forecasts, this strategy will be able to save around 60 percent of all CO2 emissions.

This means: there will still be 40 percent of emissions left over for which another solution is needed. This is because there are large parts of the economy and industry that simply cannot be electrified, but continue to require a combustion process: long-distance transportation (shipping, air transport, trucks), the production of steel, metals and cement, the heating of certain buildings (some old buildings, for example) and many processes from the chemical industry. So what is needed is a material that burns "cleanly", without leaving any residues that are harmful to the climate. The only realistic candidate for this is hydrogen (H2), which burns to form ordinary water. H2 is also an excellent intermediate storage for electrical energy, for example from wind power, when more is being produced than is currently needed. A modern world without human CO2 emissions cannot be achieved without the massive use of hydrogen.