India’s first pure green hydrogen plant commissioned in Jorhat
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Ecology and Environment
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4th May, 2022
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Context
Oil India Limited (OIL) has recently taken the first significant step towards Green Hydrogen Economy in India with the commissioning of India’s First 99.999% pure Green Hydrogen pilot plant.
About
About India’s first pure green hydrogen plant:
- Oil India Limited (OIL), India’s second largest National Exploration & Production Company, has taken the first significant step towards Green Hydrogen Economy in India with the commissioning of India’s First 99.999% pure Green Hydrogen pilot plant with an installed capacity of 10 kg per day at its Jorhat Pump Station in Assam.
- The plant was commissioned in a record time of 3 months.
- The plant produces Green Hydrogen from the electricity generated by the existing 500kW Solar plant using a 100 kW Anion Exchange Membrane (AEM) Electrolyser array. The use of AEM technology is being used for the first time in India.
- This plant is expected to increase its production of green hydrogen from 10 kg per day to 30 kg per day in future.
Green Hydrogen
- 'Green hydrogen' is pure hydrogen produced using renewable energy sources such as wind or solar power.
- There are no natural hydrogen deposits on earth; it has to be extracted from other compounds by a chemical process.
- If renewable energy (e.g. from Solar panels) is used to generate electricity for the electrolysis of water then the green hydrogen can be generated without any harmful emissions.
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