cover image: Burning question: - why hydrogen boilers are not the answer

20.500.12592/pdrp8x

Burning question: - why hydrogen boilers are not the answer

21 Apr 2023

This has been echoed by the The Eunomia study analysed the obstacles to a Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, transition to hydrogen boilers – both those fed by which stated that for heating and cooling, hydrogen in blends of fossil gas and hydrogen, and those that are the built environment has no benefit at all, even in its 100% hydrogen-operated. [...] While hydrogen has the potential to Burning question: why hydrogen boilers are not the answer 5 2 Another relevant policy discussion is happening in the In fact, hydrogen combustion in homes would have far context of the revision of the Ecodesign Regulation for space more safety and technical implications than existing gas and water heaters. [...] there would be a universal toolkit available to end-users If hydrogen is blended with fossil gas at grid level, to perform such work, due to the multitude of different appliances will need to be carefully and meticulously brands and models of boilers on the market (plus other aligned at the same time (according to the specific blend considerations such as commercial confidentiality and share). [...] Every component of the gas would increase to include further checks of the appliance supply system would need to be verified, and every after the increase of the hydrogen blend in the network. [...] As a boilers will be able to detect the fuel at the inlet and result, economic considerations are likely to guide the automatically switch their settings, so a manual update replacement of the burner to 100% hydrogen as part of would be needed alongside the other conversion steps the conversion.
Pages
14
Published in
Belgium

Tables