Efficient equipment and regular maintenance from an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) service provider help to ensure extended uptime and minimize operational challenges. It’s essential to secure reliability and safety in blue hydrogen production processes by looking for valve, actuator, and regulator solutions that:
- Deliver 99.9% blue hydrogen purity level
- Lower fugitive emission rate
- Boost productivity
- Reduce energy consumption and costs
Explore the Emerson portfolio of control, isolation, relief valves, regulators, and actuators for safer, smarter, reliable, and scalable blue hydrogen production.
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As we transition towards a more sustainable future, companies in the downstream hydrocarbon Industries, like chemical plants and oil refineries, are choosing blue hydrogen to power their operations.
So, using blue hydrogen as a fuel source and feedstock, offers companies many advantages. Sustainability is certainly top of mind. Blue hydrogen can be produced from natural gas through steam methane reformation (SMR), but compared to traditional hydrogen production methods, blue hydrogen production specifically captures and stores the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.
This allows companies to run operations with a smaller carbon footprint. Companies can also use their existing infrastructure, like reforming technologies and natural gas pipelines, to produce large volumes of hydrogen. This compatibility with existing systems can make blue hydrogen production a cost-effective option. And let’s not forget about how policy support and government incentives like tax breaks and subsidies could make blue hydrogen production an even more attractive investment in many countries.
Emerson has decades of experience in the hydrogen industry and helps companies around the world produce blue hydrogen to meet low emissions, safety, and productivity goals. Emerson’s valve regulator and actuator solutions support various systems and applications, including steam methane reformer, known as SMR, autothermal reformer, known as ATR, pressure swing absorption or PSA, vacuum swing absorption or VSA, and amine treatment processes.
Producing blue hydrogen presents significant challenges for the valves and regulators responsible for maintaining control and safety throughout the process. Hydrogen embrittlement can degrade the valve’s mechanical integrity and performance, increasing emissions and other inefficiencies. High pressures, high temperatures, and all sorts of gases involved in the production process can also cause cavitation, corrosion, and noise. The main message is clear: opting for inefficient equipment or neglecting maintenance can lead to significant challenges and disruptions.
Think safety risks, leaks, hydrogen that doesn’t meet purity levels, and increased maintenance bills. Nobody wants those kinds of problems. Avoid them by making the smart choice from the start.
Details and design choices matter. That’s why it’s important to choose an experienced partner and adviser who offers a vast product portfolio and service network.
Equipment reliability is crucial for a plant’s performance. You want to look for solutions that can deliver blue hydrogen with 99.9% purity level. This will help decrease equipment downtime and maintenance costs, improve plant safety, including critical emergency shutdown, lower emissions, boost production efficiency, and reduce energy consumption and costs.
Transition to low-carbon-intensive hydrogen will be an important part of the future to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. With the most comprehensive portfolio of control, isolation, relief valves, regulators, and actuators, Emerson offers advanced solutions crucial for the success of blue hydrogen production. Our experience, technology, and innovation drive your operations forward, making them safer, more reliable, smarter, and scalable.
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