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The National Conference with international participation on New Cryogenic and Isotope Technologies for Energy and Environment - EnergEn 2018 is organized by the National Research-Development Institute for Cryogenic and Isotopic Technologies - ICSI Rm. Valcea with the scientific participation of the University of Pitesti and the University of Craiova and will be held at Baile Govora, in 2018.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF RENEWABLE HYDROGEN FOR ENERGY STORAGE AND MOBILITY APPLICATIONS Print

THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF RENEWABLE HYDROGEN FOR ENERGY STORAGE AND MOBILITY APPLICATIONS


Mihai Balan*, Mihaela Buga1, Adrian Badea2


1National Research and Development Institute for Cryogenics and Isotopic Technologies – ICSI Rm. Valcea, 240050, Rm. Valcea, Uzinei Street no. 4, P.O. Box Râureni 7, Valcea, Romania; 2University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania


ABSTRACT

Energy storage technologies are regarded as key components of the ongoing energy transition towards decarbonization and lower GHG emissions. A simplified LCA is performed in order to determine the environmental impact of renewable hydrogen for energy storage and mobility applications in two impact categories: global warming potential (GWP) and cumulative energy demand (CED) and compare it to the reference hydrogen production scenario which is steam reforming. The results clearly indicate that renewable hydrogen is a more sustainable option, while underlying the importance of the energy mix used in the compression stage.

Keywords: renewable hydrogen, LCA, energy storage, mobility.


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*Corresponding author: Mihai Balan, E-mail: mihai.balan@icsi.ro, phone: 0250732744; Fax: 0250732746