Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated Indian Oil’s compact reformer plant and launched the much-awaited trial run of Delhi’s buses on Hydrogen-blended CNG (HCNG) at the Rajghat Bus Depot-I of Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC).
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Key-Points
HCNG is a hydrogen-enriched compressed natural gas (CNG).
In Delhi, instead of physically blending hydrogen with CNG, hydrogen spiked CNG will be produced using compact reforming process patented by Indian Oil Corporation.
Benefits:
H-CNG blends can be produced directly from CNG, bypassing the energy-intensive electrolysis process and high-pressure blending costs.
The flexible and robust process allows the production of H-CNG on-site, in less severe conditions, and under low pressure
It provides a higher yield H-CNG mixture by up to 4% to 5% compared to CNG’s input quantity.
The cost of H-CNG production by the above process is about 22% cheaper than conventional physical blending.
