"Hythane® (hydrogen-enriched natural gas) – Emerging
Interest in India®
India, which adopted a Hydrogen Roadmap in 2006 that
included Hythane® (hydrogen-enriched natural gas)
as a transitional fuel, is expanding the planned use
of Hythane® beyond the current initial project that is
underway and which involves converting 7,000 natural gas
buses in Delhi to operate on Hythane®.
A new Hythane® bus project in the Mumbai area is being
planned and Eden India has been approached in relation
to possibly supplying Eden’s proprietary blending system
to blend the hydrogen and natural gas. Eden’s blender was
successfully installed, and operated for 11 years until the
station was closed, in the first Indian Hythane® station
that Eden built near the Delhi Airport for Indian Oil in 2009.
Additionally, it is understood that the possibility of adding
hydrogen into natural gas pipelines in India is also being
considered as a means of both reducing air pollution
and Greenhouse Gas emissions. Eden India is planning
to manufacture in India all its future blender Hythane®
requirements. Interestingly, a similar hydrogen-enriched
natural gas project is also reportedly being planned in the
north east of the USA....
Hydrogen – European interest
During the six-months, further discussions took place
with a European chemical company with which Eden,
in 2019, conducted joint laboratory trials, in relation
to a possible collaboration involving the use of Eden’s
proprietary pyrolysis process for production of both
turquoise hydrogen and carbon nanotubes. These recent
discussions are ongoing.
In addition to its existing EdenCrete® products, Eden’s
long-term strategic plan is to develop global markets for
a range of other products (including EdenPlast®) that will
collectively use sufficient CNT, to support the development
of a commercial scale, turquoise hydrogen programme
based upon Eden’s efficient, low cost, patented,
commercialised and proprietary methane pyrolysis
process."
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