Fuel Cells: Sustainability Benchmarks Fuel Cell Emissions Footprints Across Sectors

Fuel cells, long championed as clean, efficient sources of energy, have for the first time been quantified in terms of CO2 and regulated pollutant footprint emissions in Fuel Cell Today’s (FCT’s) latest Industry Review, launched today. The Review, Fuel Cells: Sustainability presents a footprint analysis for CO2 and NOx emissions from various fuel cell applications over the next decade.

A valuable resource to businesses and policymakers worldwide, the emissions projections are intended as a tool to calculate how fuel cells may contribute to worldwide efforts to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets as well as address local air pollution concerns.

FCT’s proprietary forecasts reveal that for some applications, the carbon and criteria pollutant reduction potential of fuel cells at point of use is impressive. Light duty vehicles, materials handling, and buses (which use pure hydrogen fuel) emit only water vapour. Applications which require the reformation of a carbon-based fuel, such as combined heat and power, have the advantage of significant efficiency gains over traditional technologies and as such offer reduced-carbon heat and energy.

Fuel cells are one of a number of technologies being developed that can help countries meet long-term climate change targets without asking consumers to undertake significant lifestyle changes. An advantage of fuel cell technology is that it may contribute to CO2 emissions reduction across a number of sectors including energy supply, industry, and transportation. In addition to CO2 reduction, fuel cells also can considerably reduce SOx, NOx, particulate matter (PM) and noise emissions in various applications.

Commenting on the findings of Fuel Cells: Sustainability, Principal Analyst Dr. Kerry-Ann Adamson said: “we look at CO2 and NOx emissions at point of use for fuel cells in various applications, and reveal that fuel cells in transport and stationary applications offer significant point of use emissions reduction potential. Scaling this up with our ten year shipment forecasts, the environmental footprint of fuel cell technology is considerably lower than conventional technologies, in addition to the higher efficiencies that fuel cells offer.”

To order your copy of the Review, priced GBP500, please see:
http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/events/industry-review
or visit FCT Consulting’s stand at the World Future Energy Summit, Abu Dhabi, January 18th – 21st - stand #10160.

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Source: Fuel Cell Today