據管道&天然氣雜志網8月15日報道，英國石油(bp)投資了一家初創公司，該公司正在開發尋求利用重工業產生的蒸汽大幅降低零碳氫生產成本的技術。

這家英國能源巨頭的風險投資部門bp Ventures周二表示，該公司是總部位于美國的Advanced Ionics 1250萬美元a輪融資的幾家投資者之一。

其他投資者包括三菱重工、清潔能源風險投資公司和Gatemore資本管理公司。

利用可再生能源通過電解分解水生產的綠色氫氣，預計將在交通和工業脫碳方面發揮關鍵作用。

但目前它的生產規模非常小，成本是最常見的天然氣制氫的五倍，而天然氣是高度碳密集型的。

這項投資將允許Advanced Ionics加速其用于重工業的水蒸汽基電解槽的小規模部署。

根據Advanced Ionics公司所述，這項名為Symbion的技術利用工廠現有運行過程中釋放的熱量，將每公斤氫的用電量降至35千瓦時以下，而普通電解槽每公斤氫的用電量超過50千瓦時。

該公司表示，其大幅降低了電解過程的電力成本，電解過程占綠色氫生產成本的70%以上。更低的電力消耗將使綠色氫的成本降至每公斤1美元以下，低于大多數基于化石燃料的生產。

Advanced Ionics已經與西班牙油氣公司雷普索爾(Repsol)開展了試點項目。

旨在在未來幾十年大幅減少碳排放的bp，在綠色氫產業上投入巨資。到2030年，其目標是每年生產50萬至70萬噸氫，主要是綠色氫。

郝芬 譯自 管道&天然氣雜志網

原文如下：

BP Backs Green Hydrogen Start-Up Aiming to Cut Fuel's Costs

BP has invested in a start-up company developing technology seeking to use vapor from heavy industry to sharply reduce the production costs of zero-carbon hydrogen.

BP Ventures, the British energy giant's venture capital arm, was among several investors in a $12.5 million Series A financing in U.S.-based Advanced Ionics, the companies said on Tuesday.

Other investors include Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Clean Energy Ventures and Gatemore Capital Management.

Green hydrogen, produced by splitting water through electrolysis using renewable energy, is expected to play a key role in decarbonizing transport and industries.

But it is produced today on a very small scale and costs up to five times more than the most common hydrogen produced from natural gas, which is highly carbon-intensive.

The investment will allow Advanced Ionics to accelerate the small-scale deployment of its water vapor-based electrolyzers for heavy industry.

The technology, Symbion, uses heat emitted from a plant's existing operations to drive the electricity use to less than 35 kilowatt hours (kWh) per kilogram of hydrogen compared with more than 50 kWh per kilogram for a typical electrolyzer, according to Advanced Ionics.

It sharply reduces the cost of electricity for the electrolysis process, which accounts for more than 70% of green hydrogen production costs, the company said.

The lower electricity consumption will drive the cost of green hydrogen to less than $1 per kilogram, which is less than most fossil-fuel based production, it said.

Advanced Ionics is already running a pilot program with Spanish oil and gas company Repsol.

BP, which aims to sharply reduce its carbon emissions in the coming decades, is betting big on green hydrogen. By 2030, it aims to produce between 0.5 and 0.7 million tonnes per year of primarily green hydrogen.