加拿大Proton Technologies公司的氢气价格有望达到0.1美元/公斤？-

Proton Technologies Hydrogen for $0.10 per kilogram

加拿大Proton Technologies公司的氢气价格有望达到0.1美元/公斤？

The price of hydrogen per kilogram is a key when looking at widespread deployment of the clean fuel, but what exactly is the right price?

考虑到氢能作为清洁燃料进行大规模的应用后，每公斤氢气的价格就成了关键，但究竟怎么样才是氢气合适的价格呢？

For months now, H2 View has been sharing multiple goals for achieving ‘the right price for hydrogen’. $12 per kg, under $2 per kg, but how about $0.10 per kg?

几个月以来，H2 View一直在对多种数据进行共享，来实现氢气的合适的价格。氢气12美元/公斤，低于2美元/公斤，但是0.1美元/公斤怎么样？

$0.10 per kg is what Canadian company Proton Technologies is currently trying to achieve with its new process which has potential to produce the world’s lowest-cost hydrogen.

0.1美元/公斤的氢气，是加拿大公司Proton Technologies所努力实现的目标,他们的新技术可能能生产出世界上成本最低的氢气。

To find out more about the idea behind ground-breaking technology, how it works, and how it could change the transition towards clean energy, H2 View sat down with Grant Strem, Chairman and CEO of Proton Technologies to find out more.

为了解这个突破性技术背后的故事，和工作原理，以及它是如何向清洁能源过渡的，我们采访了Proton Technologies的公司的CEO，Grant Strem，他为我们带来了解更多的信息。

“Proton has the world’s lowest cost method to produce clean energy. Proton has a way to make hydrogen for $0.10 per kg, without emissions, and at a very large scale,” Strem explains.

Strem先生解释说：“Proton公司有着世界上成本最低的生产清洁能源的技术。我们生产的氢气，每公斤价格为0.1美元，没有废气排放，而且可进行大规模生产”。

“This is important because it is the first-time hydrogen can be made at large scale for a lot less than the cost of natural gas.”

“这种技术很重要，因为这是首次大规模制氢，而且成本要比天然气便宜很多”。

Strem told H2 View that the Proton process was the result of him and his friend, former professor Dr. Ian Gates, recognising the high hydrogen percentage in oil and gas fields.

Strem先生说Proton的制氢过程，是他的朋友，Ian Gates博士，意识到油气田中氢含量比较高的结果。

Oil fields contain hydrocarbons (oil and gas) and water, meaning there is a lot of hydrogen contained conveniently underground in an energy-rich system.

油田里含有碳氢化合物（石油和天然气），这意味着在一个能源丰富的系统中，地下有大量的氢气。

The traditional way to think of oil fields is to simply pump them until they reached an economic production limit, then abandon them, but this leaves a large amount of oil behind.

对油田的传统的考虑方式是，对油进行简单的开采，达到产量的极限后放弃，留下了大量的未经利用的石油。

“Proton can now go to these abandoned or late-life oil fields, inject oxygen, thereby oxidising the abundant remaining hydrocarbons.”

“Proton可以进入这些被遗弃的或是晚期的油田中，注入氧气，生成大量的碳氢化合物”。

“This energy causes steam reforming reactions, allowing the hydrogen to be harvested from the saline water that is already within the oil field.”

“这些能量通过蒸汽重整反应，可让氢气通过油田中的盐水提取出来”。

“This is done with a downhole hydrogen filter that only allows pure hydrogen to come to the surface, leaving everything else in the ground where it started.”

“这个过程通过井下的过滤器完成，它只允许纯氢可达到地表，而其它所有的东西都留在了地下”。

In this way, Proton leverages existing wells, roads, pipelines, powerlines, and people, moving them to a clean energy path.

通过这种方式，Proton利用现有的油井，道路，管道，电线，和工作人员，并把他们带到清洁能源的道路上来。

Why is the hydrogen so cheap?

氢气为什么变得如此便宜？

Proton’s process is essentially steam reforming but using the ground (which is free) as the reaction chamber and the upswept oil (which is free) as the fuel, making its cost structure dramatically lower than alternative methods.

Proton技术的过程，本质上是蒸汽重整，但通过地面作为反应室，利用向上的石油为燃料，使其制氢结构成本大大低于其它的替代制氢方法。

“People are used to thinking about finding oil and gas, pumping and purifying it, then transporting it long distances to simply oxidise it in some highly specialised equipment.”

“人们经常会习惯于考虑寻找石油和天然气，将其抽净，净化，然后利用长距离管道运输，把石油天然气输送到一些高度专业化的设备中进行氧化”。

“This is bringing fuel to oxygen. Instead it is much lower cost to simply bring the oxygen to the fuel, where the released energy can efficiently make hydrogen for us.”

“这就是为氧气提供燃料。相反的是，为燃料提供氧气的成本要低的多，这样释放出来的能量，可以有效的用来制氢”。

It is these factors that have urged Proton to achieve a production cost of $0.10 per kg with a 500 tonne/day facility with hopes for further cost cuts as the company upscales.

正是这些因素，让Proton公司实现了每公斤的氢气成本为0.1美元，加上公司有每天可生产500吨的设备，随着公司规模的进一步扩大，氢气的成本将会进一步消减。

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