Whether it’s reducing waste, achieving certainty in project timelines, or meeting sustainability goals, understanding what 'value' means to each client is critical.
However, it does have strong potential as an ingredient in clean, drop-in, substitute fuels, such as ammonia (which can be used as a Marine shipping fuel), or synthetic hydrocarbons.Importantly, this would mean that existing storage, transport and end-use infrastructure could continue to be used, including the use of today's planes and ships, making these kinds of solutions extremely useful..
The sticking point is that in order for hydrogen to be used successfully as an ingredient in these alternative fuels, it needs to be very inexpensive, costing less than one dollar per kilogram.This is significantly out of range for any of the prospects for renewables until 2050, largely because they are very dispersed, dilute energy sources.Despite building renewables in windy and sunny places, and combining them to increase the capacity factors, there’s still a cost to transport those fuels around the world, leading to high prices.
In contrast, with advanced heat sources, it’s possible to move into a shipyard based manufacturing environment to make offshore production platforms.These large, floating platforms are akin to what the oil and gas industries use today, and would enable us to achieve extremely low costs..
In essence, the proposed model here is the same as for repowering coal.
We need to figure out how to make highly productive, manufactured products, in highly automated environments.The Problem statement and value drivers may read something like this: -.
Manufacturing Site A has evolved over time into a Jigsaw of process buildings, development buildings, support functions, and office accommodation.Some of the site is highly utilised, while others have been mothballed.
There is a mixture of asset age and the site has a number of ongoing and proposed investment cycles to replace or renovate e.g.automation systems and utilities.. How can the site develop a masterplan which: -.