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'VERY DISRUPTIVE' DIRECT SOLAR-TO-HYDROGEN COMMERCIALLY VIABLE BY 2030, SAYS OIL
GROUP REPSOL

Spanish fossil player plans demo plant for converting PV power directly into
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24 August 2021 9:47 GMT Updated  24 August 2021 12:20 GMT
By Bernd Radowitz



Oil & gas firm Repsol by 2024 plans to build a demonstrator plant at its
Puertollano industrial complex in Spain for the production of renewable hydrogen
by directly tapping solar energy, a process it claims could be commercially
viable by the end of the decade.

The Spanish group said it is aiming for the novel technology – which doesn’t
need the intermediate step of electrolysis crucial to other green H2 production
methods – to reach "commercial maturity" by 2030. Repsol is developing the
process, called photoelectrocatalysis, together with Spanish gas grid operator
Enagas.

The demo plant is slated to occupy close to half a hectare and have a production
of 100 kilogrammes of renewable H2 per day. It is planned to be followed by 2028
by the installation of an industrial-scale plant of about 60ha and with a
production capacity of up to 10 tonnes of the green gas per day.

'No electricity needed': oil company Repsol aims to turn solar straight into
hydrogen
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“It will allow us on the one hand to store renewable energy on a large scale,
and on the other to use it as fuel in different sectors such as mobility, in the
residential and industrial fields and also as a raw material in industry,”
Repsol Technology Lab researcher Ana Martinez said.

While during electrolysis solar or other renewable power is first transported to
an electrolyser where the water molecule is separated into H2 and oxygen,
photoelectrocatalysis integrates the two steps into a single process.

Scientists have been investigating using sunlight to split water into hydrogen
and oxygen.

“The device receives direct solar radiation and using photoactive material
generates electrical charges that cause the separation,” said María Dolores
Hernández, co-leader of the project.

That avoids losses associated with the transport of electricity, which means
that “the photoelectrocatalysis technology improves the efficiency of the
process of converting solar energy into hydrogen, with respect to electrolysis.”

Hernández added that the project's roadmap foresees that by 2030 the hydrogen
generated directly from solar power will be able to compete in terms of cost
with conventional processes using fossil gas, or electrolysis to produce
low-carbon hydrogen.

Enagas hydrogen coordinator Monica Sanches added: “It is a very disruptive
technology.

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“It is part of our commitment to renewable gases, particularly hydrogen and
biomethane, as keys to achieving the carbon neutrality that we want to reach at
a European level and as a company by 2040.”

Research institutes such as the Catalan Institute for Energy Research, the
University of Alicante, and the Aragon Hydrogen Foundation are also involved in
the project.

The research has grown from the first concept test of the photoelectrochemical
cell of no more than one square centimetre to the start-up in November 2020 of a
pilot plant at the Repsol Technology Lab.

Repsol said the renewable hydrogen from the new plant will be applied in
refining and chemical processes.

There are other photoelectrocatalysis initiatives in Europe, the US, or Japan,
Repsol said.

“But in global terms, we are sure of the great potential of this technology. It
will permit the decarbonisation of hydrogen production on an industrial scale,
optimising efficiency and costs,” Hernández claimed.(Copyright)

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'VERY DISRUPTIVE' DIRECT SOLAR-TO-HYDROGEN COMMERCIALLY VIABLE BY 2030, SAYS OIL
GROUP REPSOL

Oil & gas firm Repsol by 2024 plans to build a demonstrator plant at its
Puertollano industrial complex in Spain for the production of renewable hydrogen
by directly tapping solar energy, a process it claims could be commercially
viable by the end of the decade. The Spanish group said it is aiming...

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