Environmental and techno-economic viability of using hydrogen in the vehicle sector for a rapid energy transition in Argentina

HUMANA, T.; SIGAL, A.; MUÑOZ, P.; FRANCESCHINI, E.; CORREA, G.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

Año: 2023

0360-3199

Argentina has a wide availability of renewable resources, which provides important advantagesfor the hydrogen vector incorporation. The province of Cordoba is an excellentmodel case for the study of the rapid incorporation of hydrogen as fuel, to replace 20% V/Vof natural gas consumed in vehicular use. This does not involve major changes in infrastructureor modifications to the vehicles. This paper computes and analyzes the levelizedcost of hydrogen with the emissions associated for each part of the complete hydrogensupply chain. Two different production sources were used: renewable energies sources andthe Argentine electrical grid; and two production pathways: in situ and centralized production.Comparing the same volume of proposed hydrogen compressed natural gas andcurrent CNG, a cost decrease in the majority of the scenarios and a CO2eq emissionreduction ranging from 19.5 to 8.2% are achieved, even if the hydrogen is produced usingthe carbon-intensive grid electricity.