The news agency, Press Trust of India, has reported that Oil India Ltd, the state-owned upstream oil company, will set up a pilot plant to manufacture green hydrogen at its Jorhat oilfield in Assam. The plant will use AEM technology.
This, PTI said, was revealed by the company's Director(Operations), Pankaj Kumar Goswami, on the occasion of the ground-breaking (bhoomi puja) ceremony for the project.
The proposed plant is small--100 kW, but is only a pilot plant.
Goswami has said that the hydrogen generated by the plant would be blended with natural gas using the existing infrastructure.
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Blending hydrogen with natural gas for use in automobiles is the intermediate step, before the world moves to fuel cells. The other govt-owned company, Indian Oil Corporation, is just about to submit its report on the running of 50 hydrogen-doped natural gas buses to the Supreme Court of India, which had tasked the company with the job, earlier.
Once the Supreme Court reviews it, its views will sure be woven into government policy. Buses currently running on CNG will be pepped by a dose of hydrogen.
Oil India Ltd is apparently gearing itself up for that situation. Its choice of AEM technology is also laudable because while AEM might be a few years away, it is the technology of the future.
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