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Mumbai – 30.05.2024
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. has successfully commissioned India’s first Solid Oxide based Electrolyser (SOE) at its HP Green R&D Centre, Bengaluru for Green Hydrogen (GH2) generation. This highly efficient pilot-scale electrolyzer can generate Green Hydrogen with 99.99% purity and marks a significant step in evaluating this technology for generation of green hydrogen and its derivatives.
The first of its kind SOE system produces Green Hydrogen from the electricity generated by a captive Solar+Wind plant using a 20 kW Solid Oxide Electrolyser stack. One of the unique features of the SOEC commissioned is that, it does not use rare earth materials for electrodes/electrolytes. Further the energy consumption is about 20-30% lower than the other electrolyzer technologies. Going forward, this has the potential to enable Green Hydrogen Mission economically sustainable.
During the commissioning, Shri S. Bharathan, Director – Refineries HPCL, briefed the progress made by HP Green R&D to support HPCL’s energy transition through innovation, research, indigenization, cost optimisation and revenue generation.
On the backbone of this SOE system, HP Green R&D Centre will carry out research in the areas of utilization of low quality steam/waste heat from refineries for hydrogen generation, carbon capture through co-electrolysis route producing syn-gas and e-fuels and the high temperature hydrogen for further downstream applications.
With this, HP Green R&D Center has the unique distinction of commissioning all three leading technologies of electrolysers. This will enable, simultaneous use of different types of electrolysers to optimize the cost. This will also facilitate the study of the impact of intermittent nature of renewable energy from different sources and address various issues associated with it.