Bharat Petroleum Corp (BPCL) goals to assist construct about 1 MW electrolyzer manufacturing capability within the nation by 2025 utilizing the Bhabha Atomic Analysis Centre’s (BARC) expertise for inexperienced hydrogen, an organization govt stated.
BPCL’s analysis and improvement division is working with BARC to scale up alkaline electrolyzer expertise for inexperienced hydrogen manufacturing. The price of an alkaline electrolyzer may be probably halved with some technological and financial improvements, stated Bharat L Newalkar, chief normal supervisor (R&D), BPCL.
The corporate plans to get a 3rd celebration to arrange the electrolyzer-making facility, he stated, including that the alkaline electrolyzers produced from the proposed facility will doubtless value 20-30 per cent lower than the present charge of about $800 per kw.
About 55 kwh of renewable electrical energy is required to provide a kilogram of inexperienced hydrogen. To make inexperienced hydrogen viable, capital, in addition to working expenditure, should go down, stated Ravikumar V, head of R&D at BPCL. Innovation, in addition to authorities assist, could be wanted to cut back inexperienced hydrogen prices, he added. Producing inexperienced hydrogen prices triple that of gray hydrogen in the present day.
Most state-run refiners are planning to start manufacturing of inexperienced hydrogen to partially exchange the heavy quantity of gray hydrogen they primarily use for eradicating sulphur from the gas.
BPCL’s R&D division has additionally designed a extra environment friendly LPG cooking range burner that may assist save a cylinder’s value of fuel yearly for a family, stated Ravikumar. Stoves available in the market have a gas effectivity of 68 per cent whereas the BPCL’s new mannequin has an effectivity of 74 per cent. Each burners value the identical. Greater than 70,000 stoves utilizing BPCL’s burners have already been offered to clients, he stated.
