Shenhua Group deeply layout hydrogen can build a hydrogen corridor with dotted lines

Shenhua Group is a coal-based, power, railways, ports, shipping, coal oil and coal chemical industry as one, production and sales of a one-stop operation of the extremely large energy companies. As a traditional energy "crocodile", Shenhua Group's in-depth deployment of hydrogen energy measures has attracted the attention of the industry.

"We are particularly interested in hydrogen energy," said Huangqing, Secretary of Shenhua's board of directors. "If future fuel cells can make major breakthroughs, then hydrogen production from coal is the least expensive. "

In fact, the Shenhua Group has done a lot of work around hydrogen energy. The company has participated in the formulation of the National hydrogen energy industry route. Including the road map for energy conservation and new energy automotive technology, the Blue Book for the development of China's hydrogen energy industry infrastructure, and guidance on accelerating the development of the hydrogen energy fuel cell automotive industry.

On August 20, 2006, the gas furnace of Shenhua Coal Production Plant was successfully installed.

On August 28, 2016, Shenhua Group built a hydrogenation station in Rugao, Jiangsu Province. The hydrogen storage capacity of the hydrogenation station is 980kg, and the daily hydrogenation capacity is about 2000kg. The project includes two hydrogen long-tube trailer parking spaces and unloading devices, one 5.76 M3 stationary hydrogen storage bottle group, four 500N m3/h hydrogen compression units, hydrogen station supporting stations, supporting electrical, instrumentation, station area drainage and fire protection.

In addition, Shenhua Group also invested in the construction of hydrogen energy projects in Xianyang, Shaanxi, and Baotou, Inner Mongolia. It plans to build a hydrogen corridor with points and lines to form an industrial strategic layout in the East, West, North, and South.

At present, the minimum cost of hydrogen in Shenhua Group is 0.77 yuan/m3 and 0.87 yuan/kg, which is much lower than the average international cost of hydrogen production.

At present, Shenhua Group's coal chemical industry has an annual output of more than 4 million tons of hydrogen and has the hydrogen production capacity of 40 million fuel cell vehicles, ranking first in the world. The cost of the coal hydrogen production route it explores is 70 % to 80 % of the cost of hydrogen production in natural gas, and 60 % to 70 % of the cost of hydrogen production in heavy oil or naphtha.

Lingwen, general manager of Shenhua Group, said that the pace of commercialization of the hydrogen energy industry is accelerating. But compared with developed countries, China still has a long way to go in developing fuel cell technology and manufacturing equipment for the hydrogen energy industry.

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