Hydrogen economy and sustainable development goals: Review and policy insights

Falcone, Pasquale Marcello; Hiete, Michael; Sapio, Alessandro

doi:10.1016/j.cogsc.2021.100506

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“…hydrogen production (Falcone et al 2021). This is because policymakers need to adopt transformative solutions based on robust data and evidence-based research to identify processes that go beyond a one-fits-all approach.…”

Section: Life Cycle Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hydrogen production, storage, utilisation and environmental impacts: a review

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Dihydrogen (H2), commonly named ‘hydrogen’, is increasingly recognised as a clean and reliable energy vector for decarbonisation and defossilisation by various sectors. The global hydrogen demand is projected to increase from 70 million tonnes in 2019 to 120 million tonnes by 2024. Hydrogen development should also meet the seventh goal of ‘affordable and clean energy’ of the United Nations. Here we review hydrogen production and life cycle analysis, hydrogen geological storage and hydrogen utilisation. Hydrogen is produced by water electrolysis, steam methane reforming, methane pyrolysis and coal gasification. We compare the environmental impact of hydrogen production routes by life cycle analysis. Hydrogen is used in power systems, transportation, hydrocarbon and ammonia production, and metallugical industries. Overall, combining electrolysis-generated hydrogen with hydrogen storage in underground porous media such as geological reservoirs and salt caverns is well suited for shifting excess off-peak energy to meet dispatchable on-peak demand.

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Section: Life Cycle Assessmentmentioning

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Hydrogen production, storage, utilisation and environmental impacts: a review

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“…The committees may raise topics of discussion about the directions of the national R&D strategy employing the nationally funded projects-based analytical information. This study can improve the limitations of previous studies [2,4,9,10,18,19,27,29,30,[32][33][34][35][36] in the following ways: the normative statement that governments should endeavor to accelerate the transition into the hydrogen economy can be empowered by the information about the public investment trends of the government, which elucidates the role of government commitment to continuous investment. The other is that the quantitative analyses, based on publications or patents alone, cannot elucidate the scale of funding and technological advancement of hydrogen-economy-related research projects.…”

Section: Potential National Collaborative Research Organizations Based On the Technology Clustersmentioning

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“…The review of related literature revealed that there are two broad branches for researching the hydrogen economy. One is related to the investigation of the present status of the hydrogen economy and its roadmaps, and it recommends some policies to boost the growth of the hydrogen economy [2,4,5,9,10,18,20,27,29,30].…”

Section: Limitations Of the Research On The Hydrogen Economy And Significance Of A Systematic Framework For Implementing The Strategymentioning

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Research and Development Investment and Collaboration Framework for the Hydrogen Economy in South Korea

Lee

Kim

2021

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South Korea developed its hydrogen strategies to achieve carbon neutrality and dominate the hydrogen economy amidst, and with the impetus, of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The government strives toward the goal via continuous investment in green hydrogen technologies, as well as strategic collaborations. To facilitate the transition into the hydrogen economy, this study presents a research and development (R&D) investment and collaboration framework as a national strategy. The framework offers abundant information to elucidate the technology, R&D spectrum, and regional dimensions of the strategy. Furthermore, the proposed framework was applied to the Korean hydrogen economy comprising 955 nationally funded projects worth USD 565.7 million. The statuses and trends of the government’s investment in nationally funded research projects are illustrated with regard to the value chains of the hydrogen economies of 16 regions, as well as nine technology clusters relating to the hydrogen economy, thereby determining the research organizations that played crucial roles in each cluster of the 16 regions between 2015 and 2020. The results indicate that the research organizations in Daejeon acquired the highest government R&D funding in many hydrogen-economy-related research fields, and that an R&D spectrum-based research/strategic collaboration is required to accomplish specialized complexes in the regions.

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“…The Sustainable Development Goals urge the decarbonization of industrial activities [25,26], particularly for sectors as crucial as energy production and transportation [27]. Thus, it is indispensable to analyze the impact of every stage of the life cycle of the products manufactured and services provided by those sectors.…”

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Quantifying the Impact of Production Globalization through Application of the Life Cycle Inventory Methodology and Its Influence on Decision Making in Industry

Prado-Galiñanes

Domingo

2021

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Industries are nowadays not only expected to produce goods and provide services, but also to do this sustainably. What qualifies a company as sustainable implies that its activities must be defined according to the social and ecological responsibilities that are meant to protect the society and the environment in which they operate. From now on, it will be necessary to consider and measure the impact of industrial activities on the environment, and to do so, one key parameter is the carbon footprint. This paper demonstrates the utility of the LCI as a tool for immediate application in industries. Its application shall facilitate decision making in industries while choosing amongst different scenarios to industrialize a certain product with the lowest environmental impact possible. To achieve this, the carbon footprint of a given product was calculated by applying the LCI method to several scenarios that differed from each other only in the supply-chain model. As a result of this LCI calculation, the impact of the globalization of a good’s production was quantified not only financially, but also environmentally. Finally, it was concluded that the LCI/LCA methodology can be considered as a fundamental factor in the new decision-making strategy that sustainable companies must implement while deciding on the business and industrial plan for their new products and services.

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Hydrogen economy and sustainable development goals: Review and policy insights

Cited by 154 publications

References 70 publications

Hydrogen production, storage, utilisation and environmental impacts: a review

Hydrogen production, storage, utilisation and environmental impacts: a review

Research and Development Investment and Collaboration Framework for the Hydrogen Economy in South Korea

Quantifying the Impact of Production Globalization through Application of the Life Cycle Inventory Methodology and Its Influence on Decision Making in Industry

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