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Hydrogen Supply Chains
Publikationstyp
Book part
Date Issued
2025
Sprache
English
Volume
Part F3771
Start Page
299
End Page
322
Citation
In: Powerfuels : Status and Prospects / edited by Nils Bullerdiek, Ulf Neuling, Martin Kaltschmitt. - 1st ed. 2025. - Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland ; Cham : Imprint: Springer, 2025
Publisher DOI
Scopus ID
Publisher
Springer
ISSN
18653529
ISBN
978-3-031-62411-7
Hydrogen is seen as a promising energy carrier due to its multifarious fields of possible application within climate change mitigation. Particularly, hard-to-abate sectors like aviation, shipping, steel production, and back up electricity supply can be promising applications for this energy carrier in its elementary form or as a derivative. In this context, different hydrogen supply chains are introduced, analyzed and discussed. While compressed gaseous hydrogen supply via pipeline networks offer cost advantages for shorter distances, seaborne transportation of liquid hydrogen can be a viable option for longer-distance transportation, leveraging regions with abundant renewable sources of energy. Material-based carriers like ammonia, methanol, and to some extend LOHCs are considered short-term solutions due to their established infrastructure, although they pose higher energy demands and costs for hydrogen release at the consumption site.
Subjects
Ammonia | Green Hydrogen | Liquid Hydrogen | LOHC | Methanol | Supply Chains
DDC Class
333.7: Natural Resources, Energy and Environment