Within two years, 5% of Hydrogen used in refining, fertiliser sectors to be green: SSV Ramakumar, Indian Oil – EQ Mag Pro
He was speaking about the green hydrogen consumption obligations (GHCO) being talked about in the NITI Aayog, MNRE, and industry circles these days.
New Delhi : Around 5 per cent of the total hydrogen demand in India’s refining and fertilizer segments will be ‘green’ by 2023-24, said SSV Ramakumar, director – research and development, Indian Oil.
He was speaking about the green hydrogen consumption obligations (GHCO) being talked about in the NITI Aayog, MNRE, and industry circles these days. He said that these discussions have singled out refining and fertilizer segments for these obligations.
“By 2023-24, 5 per cent of the total hydrogen used in these two segments will be green, by 2026-27, it will be 23 per cent, and by 2029-30, it will reach 50 percent… the hydrogen will be converted from grey to green,” said Ramakumar at the two-day ETEnergyWorld Annual Gas Conclave.
Regarding the prospective GHCO for commercial projects in refining segment, he said that IOC has announced that the total hydrogen consumption of their Mathura
refinery will be converted to grey and they are moving decisively to place the expression of interest.
“We already had a detailed discussion with more than 15 vendors who are interested in chipping in to realize our ambition… The phase one target is to convert 10 per cent of Mathura refinery’s consumption of hydrogen into green hydrogen from grey by 2023 or 2024,” he added.
IOC has just concluded the first pilot of running 50 DTC buses in the Delhi-NCR region by spiking the ordinary CNG buses with 18 per cent hydrogen.
“We have already placed the order for 15 hydrogen fuel cell buses which will be delivered in a staggered manner by 2023. The first set of buses are going to come to our R&D center by the middle of 2022,” said Ramakumar. These buses will run on green hydrogen produced from different production pathways.
He said that IOC is going to set up a pilot production unit of innovative gasification technology for producing green hydrogen with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and the prototype will be ready by May 2022. The green hydrogen thus produced will be used for fueling buses.
“We have an intent of running hydrogen-based fuel cell buses from Baroda to the Statue of Unity… We are in dialogue with the local state transport uni,” Ramakumar added.
The firm is also in the advanced state of dialogue with the UPSRTC to run hydrogen-based fuel cell buses from Delhi to Agra.
Source : PTI
