General
HyCCS Tech’s proprietary smart technology can help accelerate the UK and the world’s energy transition towards net zero. HyCCS Tech addresses several government initiatives that help support the UK’s Net-Zero by 2050 pledge. Based on the initiatives like the groundwork laid out in The Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, published in late 2020, it is clear that hydrogen is going to be a crucial part of the energy transition and explicitly demonstrates a desire to drive green jobs through zero carbon emission technologies.
Environmental Impact
Hydrogen is not itself a greenhouse gas, however, has global warming potential owing to its effect on the main greenhouse gases methane, water vapour and ozone at various levels in the atmosphere. Therefore, it is our vision that precise and fast hydrogen emissions detection and measurement is a necessary enabling technology to support energy transition strategies.
Economic Impact
Based on the hydrogen energy size of 476 TWh by 2050 in the UK only, our novel technology can save £520mn/year of hydrogen. It will help to facilitate the development of hydrogen as the clean and affordable super energy of the future.
Regulatory
We require to recognise and determine hydrogen gas leakages very quickly, and while there are existing facilities, they require to be developed at an industrial scale. R&D is really required to develop hydrogen emission detection, prevention, and mitigation techniques. Sensors must be able to monitor PVT and fluid properties changes at much lower monitoring thresholds compared to those existing for natural gas and among different types of existing and future applications.
Regulations will also require looking beyond safety concerns to include the utilisation of hydrogen as a major energy vector and address so serious hydrogen leakage challenge. It would be substantial that key regulators would coordinate at UK national and international levels to reach coherent regulations.
