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Abstract
"World Hydrogen Generation 2006: Established and Emerging Markets" is a
300-page study of the current status of the hydrogen and hydrogen generation
industries and includes a detailed review of whether or not there is to be
success found from expansion into energy storage and transportation. The
traditional hydrogen markets of petroleum refining, unconventional oil
refining, semiconductor fabrication, annealing stainless steel and annealing
ferrous metals are looked at in detail, are as the use of hydrogen through the
decade for galvanizing and brazing operations, for sintering, within the float
glass industry and for hydrogenation.
The study lists the reasons why the hydrogen industry may not be able to
create the lower hydrogen prices needed to become predominant in the emerging
energy storage and transportation markets and also discusses in detail how
these chasms may be crossed successfully. Today hydrogen prices, determined by
both the method of generation and the feedstock, are acceptable for industrial
uses but unacceptable for energy applications and are currently rising rather
than falling. Producing hydrogen at a reduced cost is the greatest challenge
facing the industry today.
The study lists the reasons why the hydrogen industry may not be able to
create the lower hydrogen prices needed to become predominant in the emerging
energy storage and transportation markets and also discusses in detail how
these chasms may be crossed successfully. Today hydrogen prices, determined by
both the method of generation and the feedstock, are acceptable for industrial
uses but unacceptable for energy applications and are currently rising rather
than falling. Producing hydrogen at a reduced cost is the greatest challenge
facing the industry today.
The report also details the move to fuel cells for transportation and the
intricacies of building a hydrogen world, including the need for a new and
more reliable storage and distribution system and also details what would be
needed to move to a hydrogen internal combustion engine. Projections of
stationary fuel cell use for energy applications and the growth in that sector
in the coming years is detailed, as is the amount of hydrogen to be used for
automotive applications through 2010.
Also examined are the annual unit sales and the corresponding yearly sales
revenues of electrolysers, large stream reformers and small reformer sales
through 2010. Annual production through 2010 for Methanol, ammonia and
hydrogen are also given and discussed extensively.
Table of Contents
Section One
Executive Summary
- 1.1 A Pattern Seen Before - Much Hype
- 1.2 The Hydrogen Industry Overview
- 1.2.1 Production and Distribution
- 1.2.2 Transportation and Small Scale Power Production
- 1.2.3 Nuclear Energy: The Last Technology of the Future
- 1.3 Conceptualizing the Hydrogen Economy:
- 1.3.1 Enabling Developments and Synergies Needed
- 1.4 The Thrust of this Report
- 1.4.1 Evaluation of Hydrogen Generation and Markets for Hydrogen Through
2015
- 1.4.2 Discussion of Economic and Technological Perspectives of Hydrogen
Generation Through the next Decade
Section Two
The Landscape of the Hydrogen Industry
- 2.1 Overview
- 2.2 Merchant Hydrogen vs. Hydrogen Generation Equipment
- 2.3 Merchant Hydrogen
- 2.3.1 Merchant Hydrogen Leaders
- 2.4 Hydrogen Production
- 2.4.1 Feedstocks, Coal, Naptha and Biomass
- 2.4.2 Hydrogen from Steam Reforming
- 2.4.3 Hydrogen from Coal
- 2.4.4 Coal and Methanol
- 2.4.5 Electrolysers and Hydrogen Production
- 2.4.6 Electrolyser Hydrogen Production Volumes and Costs
- 2.4.7 Electrolytic Hydrogen from Renewable Energy Sources
- 2.5 Unconventional Hydrogen Generation
- 2.5.1 Hydrogen on Demand
- 2.5.2 Chemical Feedstocks
- 2.5.3 Thermal Chemical
- 2.5.4 Concentrating Solar
- 2.6 Technologies and Markets
Section Three
Hydrogen Markets Today
Petroleum Refining and Other Fuels
- 3.1 An Existing Market and a Future Opportunity
- 3.2 Overall Size of the Hydrogen Market
- 3.3 Petroleum Refining
- 3.4 Conclusions
- 3.5 The Uses of Hydrogen in Refining
- 3.6 Hydro-Cracking Growth
- 3.7 The Immediate Future of Oil and what it portends for Hydrogen Producers
- 3.8 Factors Depressing Demand for Hydrogen within the Petroleum Industry
- 3.8.1 Peak Oil
- 3.8.1.1 No New Super Giant Fields
- 3.8.1.2 Why a Hiatus between Peaks
- 3.8.1.3 Future Supply and Demand
- 3.8.1.4 Improved Extraction Techniques for Declining Oil Fields:
- 3.8.2 Our Projections for Oil Production over the Course of the Next
Five Years
- 3.9 Effects of the Peak - Hydrogen Used in Petroleum Refining
- 3.10 The Impact of Biofuels on Hydrogen Production
- 3.10.1 Liquid Biofuels
- 3.10.2 Biodiesels
- 3.10.3 Overall Biofuel Production
- 3.11 Factors Conducing to an Increase in Demand for Hydrogen within the
Petroleum Industry
- 3.11.1 Do Unconventional Fossil Fuel Resources Represent Opportunity?
- 3.11.2 Heavy Oil
- 3.11.3 Tar Sand Resources
- 3.11.4 Oil Shale
- 3.11.5 Projections for Unconventional Oil Production
- 3.11.6 Who Wins?
- 3.12 Syngas and Synfuel: An Alternative Scenario for Hydrogen Producers
- 3.12.1 Use of Coal
- 3.12.2 Synfuel Factors for Success
- 3.13 Impact of Distillate Fuels
- 3.14 How Environmental Concerns Work to the Advantage of Hydrogen Producers
- 3.15 Overall Impact of Alternative Fuels on Hydrogen Production
- 3.16 Producing Hydrogen for Refineries - the Fossil Fuel Conundrum
- 3.16.1 Rising Demand and Prices for Natural Gas
- 3.16.2 Non-Natural Gas Gasification Techniques
- 3.16.3 The Problem of Refining Capacity
- 3.17 Projections for Hydrogen Generation for Oil Refining
Section Four
Hydrogen Markets Today
Ammonia Production, Methanol, Metal Processing, Float Glass and Others
- 4.1 Ammonia Production
- 4.1.1 The Size of the Ammonia Industry
- 4.1.2 Ammonia Production Methods and Influence on Hydrogen Producers
- 4.1.3 The Ammonia Manufacturing Process and Participants
- 4.1.4 The Future of Hydrogen Feedstocks for Ammonia Production
- 4.1.5 How Future Markets for Ammonia Impact the Hydrogen Industry
- 4.1.5.1 Fertilizer Growth
- 4.1.6 Current Hydrogen Usage in the Ammonia Industry
- 4.2 Methanol
- 4.2.1 Methanol Products
- 4.2.2 Emerging Methanol Applications
- 4.2.2.1 Methanol and Hydrogen on Demand
- 4.2.2.2 Methanol Reformers
- 4.3 Hydrogen Use in Metal Processing
- 4.3.1 Annealing of Metals
- 4.3.1.1 Use of Hydrogen in the Annealing of Ferrous Metals
- 4.3.1.2 Annealing of Nonferrous Metals
- 4.3.2 Brazing
- 4.3.3 Galvanizing
- 4.3.4 Sintering
- 4.3.4.1 Powdered Metal Growth
- 4.3.5 Welding
- 4.3.6 Opportunities in the Metal Heat Treating Industries
- 4.4 Float Glass
- 4.4.1 Hydrogen in the Float Glass Industry
- 4.4.2 Opportunities
- 4.5 Hydrogenated Oils
- 4.6 Semiconductor Manufacturing
- 4.7 Other Markets
Section Five
Emerging Market for Hydrogen: Transportation
- 5.1 Hydrogen for Transportation
- 5.2 Fuel Cells for Transportation
- 5.3 Hydrogen for Transportation, Conclusions
- 5.4 The Real Extent of the Fuel Cell Market Today
- 5.5 Hydrogen Usage in Transportation Today and Tomorrow
- 5.6 The Why and How of Hydrogen in Transportation
- 5.6.1 The Why
- 5.6.2 The Climate Change Argument and Its Implications
- 5.6.3 Fossil Fuel Scarcity
- 5.7 Industry Initiatives -Much Ado About Nothing?
- 5.8 The Automotive Industry and the Hydrogen Economy
- 5.8.1 The Fuel Cell Hoopla
- 5.8.2 Plug In Hybrids
- 5.8.3 Battery Technology
- 5.9 The Oil Companies and Hydrogen
- 5.10 Toward Widespread Use of Hydrogen Powered Vehicles
- 5.10.1 Power Plants
- 5.10.2 Fuel Cells, Alone and in Context
- 5.11 The State of the Art and What It Means for Transportation
- 5.11.1 Polymer Electrolyte Membrane
- 5.11.2 PEM Limitations Today
- 5.11.2.1 Complex
- 5.11.2.2 Cost
- 5.11.2.3 Hydration Solved
- 5.11.2.4 Heat Management and Diffusion
- 5.11.2.5 Sensitivity to Some Contaminants and Corrosion
- 5.11.2.6 Overall Bulk
- 5.11.2.7 Expense of Hydrogen Storage
- 5.11.2.8 Principal Hydrogen Storage Techniques
- 5.12 Feasible Forecasting in Regard to Fuel Cells
- 5.12.1 Technology Development and Technology Failures
- 5.12.2 Further Projections for Hydrogen Usage in Fuel Cell Vehicles
- 5.13 Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engines
- 5.13.1 Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine Chasms
- 5.13.2 Hydrogen Hybrid Fuel Injection
- 5.13.3 Hythane
- 5.13.4 Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine Prospects
- 5.13.5 Projections for Hydrogen Usage in Internal Combustion Engines
- 5.14 Hydrogen Generation and Distribution for Transportation
- 5.14.1 Chicken and the Egg
- 5.14.2 Distributed Generation vs. Centralized Generation
- 5.14.3 Limited Choice of Generation Models in Distributed Models
- 5.14.4 Generation by Means of Electrolysis
- 5.14.5 Renewables Globally
- 5.14.6 On Board Hydrogen on Demand Generation
- 5.14.6.1 The Collier Reformer
- 5.15 Hydrogen Fuel for Other Modes of Transport
- 5.15.1 Importance of Other Modes of Transport in Terms of Energy
Consumption
- 5.15.2 Rail transport
- 5.15.3 Heavy Equipment:
- 5.15.4 Mine Locomotives and Loaders
- 5.15.5 Two-wheeled vehicles
- 5.15.6 Watercraft
- 5.15.7 Aircraft
- 5.15.7.1 How Airlines Cope with Rising Fuel Prices
- 5.16 The Overall Competitive Environment for Hydrogen Powered Vehicles
- 5.16.1 Hybrid Electric Vehicles
- 5.16.2 Plug-in Hybrids
- 5.16.3 New types of Heat Engines
- 5.16.3.1 Design Diversity in Novel Heat Engines
- 5.16.4 Internal Combustion Engines Powered by Unconventional Fossil Fuels
- 5.16.6 Internal Combustion Engines Powered by Biofuels
- 5.16.6.1 Biofuels are Here Today
- 5.16.7 Vehicles Using Improved Batteries or Other Electrical Storage
Technologies
- 5.16.8 Radically Different Models of Transportation from Those
Prevailing at Present
- 5.17 Summarizing the Future of Hydrogen in Transportation Systems
Section Six
Stationary and Portable Energy Generation Using Hydrogen
- 6.1 Hydrogen beyond Transportation
- 6.2 Stationary Fuel Cells-General Issues
- 6.3 Initial Markets
- 6.3.1 Backup Power for Cellular Base Stations:
- 6.3.1.1 Cellular Success is not Ensured due to Competing Technologies
- 6.3.2 Remote Power
- 6.3.3 Premium Power
- 6.3.4 Financial Industry Data Centers
- 6.3.5 Utility Scale Electrical Generation
- 6.3.6 Auxiliary Power for Large Commercial and Recreational Vehicles
- 6.3.7 Hydrogen Powered Heat engines for Stationary Generation
- 6.3.8 Military and Naval Applications
- 6.3.9 Robotic Drones for Surveillance and Remote Combat Operations
- 6.3.10 Widespread Adoption of Directed Energy Weapons
- 6.3.11 Naval Submarines
- 6.3.12 Auxiliary Power on Naval Ships
- 6.3.13 Mainstream Propulsion Applications in the Armed Forces
- 6.3.14 Field Radios and Battlefield Computers
- 6.3.15 Industrial Robots
- 6.3.16 Power for Personal and Portable Electronics
- 6.3.16.1 Rival Technologies for Personal Power
- 6.4 Summary of Opportunities for Hydrogen in Stationary and Portable Power
- 6.5 Hydrogen Usage in Stationary Power Applications Section Seven
Producers of Merchant Hydrogen for Industry Use
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Merchant Hydrogen
- 7.3 Economics of Merchant Hydrogen
- 7.4 Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
- 7.5 Praxair, Inc.
- 7.6 Air Liquide
- 7.7 The BOC Group
- 7.8 Linde Gas
Section Eight
Hydrogen Generation - Technologies and Manufacturers
Steam Reforming, Partial Oxidation, and Autothermal Reforming
- 8.1 Overview
- 8.2 Steam Reforming, Partial Oxidation, and Autothermal Reforming
- 8.3 A Description of the Processes
- 8.3.1 Steam reforming
- 8.3.2 Partial oxidation
- 8.3.3 Autothermal reforming
- 8.4 Economics of Steam Reforming
- 8.5 Steam Reforming of Syngas from Coal, Methanol, or Biological Sources
- 8.6 Reforming of Liquid Hydrocarbons
- 8.7 Drawbacks and Limitations of Steam Reforming
- 8.8 Carbon Sequestration and Disposal Issues
- 8.9 Manufacturers of Large Scale Centralized Reforming Facilities
- 8.10 Competitive Context
- 8.11 Projected Sales for Large Scale Reformers
- 8.12 Manufacturer Rankings and Profiles (Large Scale Reformers)
- 8.12.1 Air Liquide
- 8.12.2 Aker Kvaerner
- 8.12.3 Axsia Howmar
- 8.12.4 Caloric
- 8.12.5 CB&I Howe-Baker
- 8.12.6 Foster Wheeler
- 8.12.7 Haldor Topso
- 8.12.8 Husky Energy
- 8.12.9 KBR
- 8.12.10 Lurgi AG
- 8.12.11 Mahler Advanced Gas Systems
- 8.12.12 Mitsubishi Kakoki Kaisha, Ltd.
- 8.12.13 Pan American Enterprises, Inc.
- 8.12.14 Sacre-Davey Innovations
- 8.12.15 Technip
- 8.12.16 The BOC Group
- 8.12.17 Toyo Engineering Corporation
- 8.12.18 Uhde High Pressure Technologies
- 8.12.19 UOP LLC
- 8.13 Small Reformers
- 8.13.1 Small Reformers for Transportation
- 8.13.2 Sales Projections for Small Reformers
- 8.14 Small Reformer Producer Profiles
- 8.14.1 Aspen Products Group, Inc.
- 8.14.2 Collier Technologies, Inc.
- 8.14.3 Ener1
- 8.14.4 H2Gen
- 8.14.5 Hydrocore
- 8.14.6 HyGear
- 8.14.7 HyRadix
- 8.14.8 IdaTech
- 8.14.9 InnovaTek
- 8.14.10 Intelligent Energy
- 8.14.11 Nuvera
- 8.14.12 Osaka Gas
- 8.14.13 The Heatric Division of Meggitt, PLC
- 8.14.14 UltraCell
- 8.14.15 UTC Power
- 8.14.16 ZTEK
Section Nine
Hydrogen Generation - Electrolysers
- 9.1 Limited Role
- 9.2 The Business Case for Electrolysers
- 9.3 Electrolyser Market Projections
- 9.4 Profiles and Rankings
- 9.4.1 Avalence LLC
- 9.4.2 Hamilton Sundstrand
- 9.4.3 Hydrogenics Corporation
- 9.4.4 Idroenergy
- 9.4.5 ITM Power, Ltd.
- 9.4.6 Norsk Hydro Electrolysers
- 9.4.7 Proton Energy Systems
- 9.4.8 Teledyne Technologies
- 9.5 Other Electrolyser Manufacturers
- 9.5.1 AccaGen
- 9.5.2 Ammonia Casale
- 9.5.3 Ceramatec
- 9.5.4 Claind
- 9.5.5 Gardner Watts Ltd.
- 9.5.6 Grupo De Nora
- 9.5.7 H3Energy
- 9.5.8 Hydrogen Technology Applications, Inc.
- 9.5.9 ILT Piel
- 9.5.10 Parker Balston
- 9.5.11 SiGen
- 9.5.12 Southwest Electrolyser
Section Ten
Other Techniques for Hydrogen Generation
- 10.1 Beyond Steam Reforming, Partial Oxidation, and Water Electrolysis
- 10.2 Overview of Unconventional Technologies
- 10.2.1 Biomass Reforming
- 10.2.2 Production of Hydrogen from the Activities of Biological Organisms
- 10.2.3 Hydrogen Solar
- 10.2.4 Solazyme, Incorporated
- 10.3 Thermal Chemical Hydrogen Splitting
- 10.3.1 Sulfur thermal chemical cycles
- 10.3.2 Calcium bromine cycle:
- 10.3.3 Other thermal cycles
- 10.3.4 Nuclear Thermal Chemical Splitting
- 10.3.5 General Atomics
- 10.3.6 Solar Thermal Chemical Generation
- 10.3.7 SHEC Labs
- 10.3.8 Solar Energy Limited
- 10.3.9 Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells Ltd & HelioTech A/S
- 10.3.10 H-Ion Solar, Incorporated
- 10.4 Novell Hydrocarbon Reforming Technologies
- 10.4.1 Syngas International Corporation
- 10.4.2 Alchemix Corporation
- 10.4.3 Clean Energy Systems, Incorporated
- 10.4.4 Virent Energy Systems, Incorporated
- 10.4.5 MRT
- 10.4.6 StarTech Environmental Corporation
- 10.4.7 PowerNova
- 10.5 Unclassifiable
- 10.5.1 Genesis World Energy
- 10.5.2 Alternate Energy Corporation
- 10.5.3 Xogen Power, Incorporated
- 10.5.4 NuElement, Incorporated
- 10.5.5 Hydrogain Technologies
- 10.6 Hydrogen-on-demand Systems
- 10.6.1 Millennium Cell
- 10.6.2 Hydrogen Power, Inc.
- 10.6.3 Safe Hydrogen LLC
- 10.6.4 Engineuity Research and Development, Ltd.
- 10.6.5 Trulite Inc.
- 10.6.6 Powerball Technologies LLC
- 10.7 Experimental Processes Awaiting Commercialization
- 10.7.1 Direct photo catalytic splitting of water
- 10.7.2 Biomimetic processes
- 10.7.3 Direct water cracking
- 10.7.4 Direct methane cracking
- 10.8 Hydrogen Generation Component and Subassembly Manufacturers
- 10.8.1 HTC Hydrogen Technologies Corporation
- 10.8.2 Hy9 Corporation
- 10.8.3 Johnson Matthey PLC
- 10.8.4 Power+Energy
- 10.8.5 Precision Combustion, Incorporated
- 10.8.6 QuestAir Technologies, Inc.
- 10.8.7 REB Research and Consulting
- 10.8.8 Stewart Warner South Wind Corporation
- 10.8.9 Wellman CJB, Limited
- 10.9 Summary and Conclusions
Section Eleven
The Renewable Energy Sources Grid
- 11.1 The Reality Is
- 11.2 The Notion of Hydricity
- 11.3 Contemplating a Transition
- 11.4 How a Renewable Electrical Grid Would Differ from a Fossil Fuel Grid
- How the Differences Affect a Hydrogen Economy
- 11.4.1 The Legacy Grid
- 11.4.2 Electrical Generation
- 11.4.3 Wind Power, Challenger or Challenged?
- 11.4.4 Stabilizing a Renewable Grid
- 11.5 The Place of Other Energy Sources in the Renewable Grid
- 11.5.1 Hydroelectric
- 11.5.2 Solar Energy
- 11.5.3 Photovoltaic devices
- 11.5.4 Concentrating Solar
- 11.5.5 Biofuel
- 11.5.6 Geothermal
- 11.5.7 Ocean Power
- 11.5.8 Fusion
- 11.6 The Renewable Grid and Transportation
- 11.7 Financing the Hydrogen Economy
- 11.8 The Government's Role - Past and Present
- 11.9 No Big Hydrogen?
Section Twelve
The Iceland Experiment
- 12.1 About the Experiment
- 12.2 The Iceland Roadmap from Fifty Thousand Feet
- 12.3 What It Would Mean if it Could Be Done
- 12.4 The Mother of All Pilots
