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Power-to-X (PtX) is one of several crucial initiatives in the realization of Denmark’s ambitions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70% by 2030. In the coming years, Denmark must develop a completely new set of rules and frameworks that enable, that green power from wind turbines and solar cells can also be used to produce hydrogen through electrolysis.
The process involves converting wind or solar energy into hydrogen. By adding nitrogen, you get ammonia, and if you add carbon dioxide, you get methanol. Both can be used as liquid fuel.
A number of companies are ready to supply CO2-neutral fuel within the next 10 years. This can be used for ships, trucks – and maybe even planes – instead of gasoline and diesel, which pollute the environment.
However, it is not entirely unproblematic to go from conventional fossil fuels to e.g. hydrogen and other explosive fuels, and therefore more test centers are being established in Denmark. In these advanced test environments, the focus is on environmental challenges as well as safety in connection with the development, production, transport and general use of PtX fuels.
The challenge in case of e.g. leakage is that methanol and ammonia are very toxic substances and also flammable, whereas hydrogen is extremely explosive. Hydrogen has an ignition limit of 4 to 77 v / v%, so it does not take much before it explodes – a spark from static electricity is enough. Hydrogen does not smell like e.g. methanol that has a sweet pungent odor, or ammonia that has a sharp and pungent odor already from 3 ppm – you are in no doubt!
It is therefore important that companies secure their employees by installing gas detection in areas where there are risks of emissions of toxic and explosive gases.
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