Paths to a sustainable hydrogen supply chain

R&D Focus Areas:
Supply chain integration, Techno-economic evaluation, Hydrogen market development

Lead Organisation:
The University of Western Australia

Funding:
Future Energy Exports CRC (Research Project)

Status:
Completed

Start date:
May 2022

Project summary description:

This project will focus on the development of a convenient tool to allow for the evaluation of hydrogen supply chain options predominately in an Australian context. The hydrogen supply chain consists of four key stages: (1) production, (2) storage, (3) transport, and (4) utilisation. Within each of these stages, there are multiple potential technologies, leading to numerous potential supply chain options.

This project will develop a web-based tool which is convenient and intuitive to use. It will be adaptable to variable user inputs and supply chain component preferences and will output a detailed overview of the dispensed hydrogen total (and component) costs as well as collective technological readiness. Currently, such cost estimate forecasting is largely done on a case-by-case basis. Given the number of potential technologies, resources and costs associated with the four stages of the supply chain, the number of potential value chains is very large; hence the tool will focus the economic assessment on a subset of chains as dictated by user preferences and selected input data. As such, the tool will allow industry to rapidly and quantitatively consider different hydrogen supply chain scenarios.

Further information:
Paths to a sustainable hydrogen supply chain (21.RP2.0065) – Completed – Future Energy Exports (fenex.org.au)

 

Reviewed: October 2024