Offshore Facilities to Produce Hydrogen

Pilar Blanco-Fernández and Francisco Pérez-Arribas
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Pilar Blanco-Fernández: NAVANTIA, San Fernando-Puerto Real Shipyard, 11519 Puerto Real, Spain/Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, (ETSIN) Avda. Arco de la Victoria 4, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Francisco Pérez-Arribas: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, (ETSIN) Avda. Arco de la Victoria 4, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Energies, 2017, vol. 10, issue 6, 1-15

Abstract: As a result of international agreements on the reduction of CO 2 emissions, new technologies using hydrogen are being developed. Hydrogen, despite being the most abundant element in Nature, cannot be found in its pure state. Water is one of the most abundant sources of hydrogen on the planet. The proposal here is to use energy from the sea in order to obtain hydrogen from water. If plants to obtain hydrogen were to be placed in the ocean, the impact of long submarines piping to the coast will be reduced. Further, this will open the way for the development of ships propelled by hydrogen. This paper discusses the feasibility of an offshore installation to obtain hydrogen from the sea, using ocean wave energy.

Keywords: hydrogen; tidal energy; wave energy; ocean current energy; Wave Energy Converter (WEC); fuel cell (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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