#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At the first all-Russian forum Pole, a project by Russian researchers Anastasia Shesterkina and Azalia Valiullina was presented, who proposed using hydrogen as a fuel in hard-to-reach Arctic territories.
The authors emphasized that hydrogen is an environmentally friendly alternative to existing energy resources, but its implementation requires the development of modern storage technologies. Transporting hydrogen, for example, in cylinders is ineffective and potentially dangerous. As a solution, the researchers propose using liquid organic hydrogen carriers, such as aromatic hydrocarbons.
“Naphthenic hydrocarbons are liquid substances at low temperatures, so they are easy to transport to remote Arctic regions. And at the same time, they are easy to use without additional energy supply to them, so as not to convert these hydrocarbons from a solid to a liquid state, we already use liquid hydrocarbons at low temperatures. And the share of hydrogen released from these organic substrates is very high”, the authors of the initiative noted.
The process is renewable, since hydrogen carriers can be used more than once, TASS writes.
“It is also important to understand that during the dehydrogenation process, heat is released into the atmosphere. And if hydrogen is used, for example, on a ship, this heat can be used for heating”, the scientists clarified.
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Text: Polina Bardik, Photo: Nikolay Shchipko