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Global mining company Anglo American is experimenting with hydrogen to power giant mining trucks.
The mining company's trucks consume liters of diesel per hour with their enormous weight of around metric tons and therefore emit large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
To reduce the carbon footprint of the mining industry, Anglo American is focusing on mining trucks.
The mining company is collaborating with several partners, including Engie, NPROXX, First Mode, Williams Advanced Engineering, Ballard, ABB, Nel and Plug Power, to develop a hybrid min Caseno Email List ing vehicle, powered by hydrogen and electricity.
The truck will be hybrid, with a hydrogen fuel cell providing about half the power and the other half from a battery pack.
The truck can also collect regenerative energy created by driving downhill and braking, which is stored in the battery and extends the vehicle's range.
Instead of using diesel as a power source for the engine, hydrogen enters the fuel cell and mixes with oxygen to create water in a chemical reaction catalyzed by platinum, which generates the electricity needed to power the engines that drive the engines. wheels.
The hydrogen power source only emits water vapor and the company claims it has the potential to reduce diesel emissions at the site by up to percent.
Anglo American says it will “take the equivalent of half a million diesel cars off the road” when the technology is rolled out across the company's global truck fleet.
The vehicle, which is the first of its kind, is being tested in Limpopo, South Africa, at the company's Mogalakwena platinum mine.
The results of the study were shared on October , International Hydrogen Day, during a virtual event. The hybrid vehicle will be launched in early
Reducing the carbon footprint of the mining industry is a difficult task, as the construction sector, which includes mining, accounts for percent of global final energy use and percent of CO emissions related to energy in , according to senior climate policy and circular economy officer at the European Environment Office (EEB) Davide Sabbadin. Sabbaddin says the sector will need to reduce its energy consumption by a third to be compatible with the Paris Agreement .
Natascha Viljoen, CEO of Anglo American's PGMs business, (the mining company) said in a press release that "The opportunity to create new engines of economic activity through hydrogen has been validated through this feasibility study with our partners. As a leading producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), we have been working for some years to establish the right ecosystem to successfully develop, scale and deploy hydrogen-powered solutions. These include investing in innovative companies and enabling technologies, as well as forging wide-ranging collaborations across the industry, to fully realize the transformative potential of green hydrogen for our economy in South Africa.”
Mining company Anglo American's hydrogen-powered hybrid truck might be one of a kind, but there are some efforts across several industries to switch to clean energy. Aviation company ZeroAvia specializes in hydrogen and electricity solutions, while Airbus aims for zero- carbon aviation by
The mining company's trucks consume liters of diesel per hour with their enormous weight of around metric tons and therefore emit large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
To reduce the carbon footprint of the mining industry, Anglo American is focusing on mining trucks.
The mining company is collaborating with several partners, including Engie, NPROXX, First Mode, Williams Advanced Engineering, Ballard, ABB, Nel and Plug Power, to develop a hybrid min Caseno Email List ing vehicle, powered by hydrogen and electricity.
The truck will be hybrid, with a hydrogen fuel cell providing about half the power and the other half from a battery pack.
The truck can also collect regenerative energy created by driving downhill and braking, which is stored in the battery and extends the vehicle's range.
Instead of using diesel as a power source for the engine, hydrogen enters the fuel cell and mixes with oxygen to create water in a chemical reaction catalyzed by platinum, which generates the electricity needed to power the engines that drive the engines. wheels.
The hydrogen power source only emits water vapor and the company claims it has the potential to reduce diesel emissions at the site by up to percent.
Anglo American says it will “take the equivalent of half a million diesel cars off the road” when the technology is rolled out across the company's global truck fleet.
The vehicle, which is the first of its kind, is being tested in Limpopo, South Africa, at the company's Mogalakwena platinum mine.
The results of the study were shared on October , International Hydrogen Day, during a virtual event. The hybrid vehicle will be launched in early
Reducing the carbon footprint of the mining industry is a difficult task, as the construction sector, which includes mining, accounts for percent of global final energy use and percent of CO emissions related to energy in , according to senior climate policy and circular economy officer at the European Environment Office (EEB) Davide Sabbadin. Sabbaddin says the sector will need to reduce its energy consumption by a third to be compatible with the Paris Agreement .
Natascha Viljoen, CEO of Anglo American's PGMs business, (the mining company) said in a press release that "The opportunity to create new engines of economic activity through hydrogen has been validated through this feasibility study with our partners. As a leading producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), we have been working for some years to establish the right ecosystem to successfully develop, scale and deploy hydrogen-powered solutions. These include investing in innovative companies and enabling technologies, as well as forging wide-ranging collaborations across the industry, to fully realize the transformative potential of green hydrogen for our economy in South Africa.”
Mining company Anglo American's hydrogen-powered hybrid truck might be one of a kind, but there are some efforts across several industries to switch to clean energy. Aviation company ZeroAvia specializes in hydrogen and electricity solutions, while Airbus aims for zero- carbon aviation by