First detection of industrial hydrogen emissions using high precision mobile measurements in ambient air.

ABSTRACT: Projections towards 2050 of the global hydrogen (H₂) demand indicate an eight-fold increase in present-day hydrogen consumption. Leakage during production, transport, and consumption therefore presents a large potential for increases in the atmospheric hydrogen burden. Although not a greenhouse gas itself, hydrogen has important indirect climate effects, and the Global Warming Potential of H₂ is estimated to be 12.8 times that of CO₂. Available technologies to detect hydrogen emissions have been targeted at risk mitigation of industrial facilities, while smaller climate-relevant emissions remain undetected. The latter requires measurement capacity at the parts-per-billion level (ppb). We developed and demonstrated an effective method to detect small hydroge

SUBMITTER: Westra IM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11480439 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature