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IEA_HIA Task 30

Kick-off meeting

Maria del Pilar Argumosa

Renewable Energy laboratory – INTA

argumosa@inta.es

Germany, 16-17 September 2010

SPANISH HYDROGEN RESOURCES AND

UTILIZATION

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Spanish Hydrogen and FC activitiesDifferent kinds of Spanish entities participate in European projects,

IEA_HIA tasks, and they are active members of PTE_HPCINTA works, besides of other technical issues, on collecting data about the

activity of this sector.

1996

2005

The main target of this organization is to

facilitate and accelerate the development and use

of fuel cells and hydrogen based systems

in Spain

TASK 18H2 Data Base:

•National publications•National Projects

•Entities

State of the art of the H2 and FC identifying,:•basic research, development and innovation, applications, industries, technological centers,users and training, Analysis of HyWays routemap results for Spain:•Critical analysis and national experts comments about HyWays prospects for Spain according to the updated situation and resources.

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PRODUCTION Commercially the hydrogen is produced by hydrocarbons

reforming (nafta and natural gas) or gasification, by industrial gas companies as Air liquide, Carburos Metalicos, Praxair, Messer and Abello Linde.

There is several plants around Spain (for example, Air liquide has H2 production plants in Puertollano, La Coruña, Sandander and Estarreja)

UTILIZATION The current commercial applications are mainly in the

Chemical (plastics, oils,…) and petrochemical industry. Electronic industry for cooling and pure water production is also considered.

A small demand is appearing for energy applications, but only for demo projects.

Current Spanish Hydrogen

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RES. Great potential. Industry involved. Leader position. RES Based on Wind and PV energy:

Activity lines:

• R&D on electrolyser and components,

• demo power plants,

• simulation and integration on mix electricity network,

RES Based on high temperature thermal solar energy and photolytic process Activity lines:

• Basic research (materials and process) and prototypes Facilities :

Hidrosolar in Madrid; RES2H2 in Canary Island; W2H2, Almeria Solar platform, Solucar and INTA power plant in Andalusia, Sotavento in Galicia, Ither in Aragon and Hidrólica in the south region.

Spanish Hydrogen Production

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Spanish Hydrogen Production

RES Based on biomass and bio ethanol Activity lines:

• Waste biomass, gasification and pyrolysis process

Fossil Fuels. Based on Coal, NG, and liquid fuels: Activity lines:

• Advanced IGCC, CO2 sequestration

• Catalyst, reformers and purification process Facilities:

IGCC plant in Puertollano (Elcogas) with CO2S, lab prototypes < 5Kw

Nuclear. (vital role>security suply, red CO2 emissions) Activity lines:

• Hight temp electrolysis and Thermoelectrically cycles

Diesel reformer (INTA)

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Hydrogen Utilization Fuel cells aplications

Activity lines:

• Integration and demonstration of fuel cells in electricity network, co-generation plants, remote power plants (Hidrosolar, First), residential applications, transport applications: buses, vehicles (Hercules), small airplanes (Boeing, Avizor); light vehicle (Hychain), auxiliary power (Deimos) and toys.

• Manufacturer and integration of vehicle components industry.

• Manufacturer of Mea´s and PEM stacks.

• Basic research on fuel cell components Facilities:

Test bench, demo installations

Citicell bus (IVECO))

Avizor (INTA)

Hercules

Banco 2kW (INTA)

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Future Hydrogen resources

The Spanish platform has made a detailed analysis of potential hydrogen production sources based on natural available resources and its future exploitation.

Spain focus the H2 production from renewable sources as biomass and wind energy.

The solar energy also will have an important role in the hydrogen production due to the prospect of electricity optimization costs.

The RES in Spain are spread all around the country and it has enough potential to supply the future demand

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Future Hydrogen resources

2008 installed RE power capacity shared needed to produce the projected hydrogen demand in 2020. Source:PTE-HPC