SMAHRT Energy Infrastructure for Rail Networks

Smart Ports Limited与Arcadis Consulting (UK) Limited和CLARA Energy Pty Limited合作，提出了一项可行性研究（FS），以审查在澳大利亚庞大的铁路网络上分配和利用绿色氢的要求，以提供更可持续的解决方案，协助运输部门的脱碳和澳大利亚的整体脱碳目标。Smart Ports目前正在开发技术，利用既定的氨解离制氢过程，提供一种精制的、按比例缩小的、极具移动性的解决方案。这是以SMAHRT（可扩展模块化氨氢加注终端）的形式出现的，这是一种集装箱燃料电池级氢气生产和供应基础设施。这种行之有效的解离氨制氢的过程在100多年前就已经完善了。然而，传统的氨裂解技术用于冶金和石油天然气工业的大型集中式工厂，产生低纯度的氢气。SMAHRT技术的开发和部署为在铁路部门使用绿色氢提供了一个重要的机会，因为铁路电气化既不实用也不经济。运输部门的脱碳和大型项目为整合这一技术提供了重要机会。我们已经确定了开发必要基础设施的需求和能力，以帮助铁路部门脱碳，并将SMAHRT技术出口到澳大利亚。澳大利亚布里斯班和墨尔本之间的内陆铁路项目目前正在建设中。这条路线全长约1700公里，目前计划使用化石燃料。Smart Ports和Arcadis认为，有必要研究和开发氢气产生并转化为氨的基础，以便铁路运输业有效分配和利用，以支持其脱碳。目前预计，从墨尔本到布里斯班的单列火车需要33,500升柴油，排放约88,000公斤二氧化碳以及大量颗粒物和氮氧化物排放。如果该技术能够令人满意地证明是合适和兼容的，该提案可以将绿色氢的生产时间与内陆铁路的完工时间保持一致，以使铁路运营脱碳。该项目旨在研究和开发利用SMAHRT作为内陆铁路项目脱碳工具的基础，并确定市场机会，以最大限度地提高澳大利亚市场内技术商业化的影响。显然，通过优化这一代的效率和实施零排放技术，脱碳的好处是巨大的。

Smart Ports Limited in collaboration with Arcadis Consulting (UK) Limited and CLARA Energy Pty Limited is proposing a Feasibility Study (FS) to review the requirements to distribute and utilise Green Hydrogen on a vast rail network within Australia to offer a more sustainable solution, assisting with decarbonisation of the transport sector and overall Australian decarbonisation targets.Smart Ports are currently developing technology, utilising the established process of dissociating Ammonia to produce Hydrogen, to provide a refined, scaled down and extremely mobile solution. This is in the form of SMAHRT (Scalable Modular, Ammonia to Hydrogen Refuelling Terminals), a containerised fuel-cell grade Hydrogen production and supply infrastructure.This well-established process of dissociating Ammonia to produce Hydrogen was perfected over 100 years ago. However the traditional Ammonia cracker technology used in large, centralised plants in the metallurgy and oil gas industries, produce low purity Hydrogen.Development and deployment of SMAHRT technology provides a significant opportunity to enable the use of Green Hydrogen in the rail sector, where rail line electrification is neither practical nor economical.Decarbonisation of transport sectors and large-scale projects, provide a significant opportunity to integrate this technology. We have identified the need and ability to develop the necessary infrastructure to help decarbonise the railway sector and export the SMAHRT technology to Australia.INLAND RAIL project between Brisbane and Melbourne in Australia is currently under construction. This route is approximately 1,700km in length and is currently planned to run on fossil fuels.Smart Ports and Arcadis believe it is necessary to research and develop the basis for which the Hydrogen can be generated and converted to Ammonia for effective distribution and utilisation by the rail transport industry, to support its decarbonisation. It is currently anticipated that a single train travelling from Melbourne to Brisbane requires 33,500l of diesel and emit approximately 88,000kg of CO2 as well as significant particulates and NOX emissions.This proposal can align timing of production of Green Hydrogen with completion times of INLAND RAIL, to decarbonise the rail operation, if the technology can be satisfactorily demonstrated suitable and compatible.This project aims to research and develop the basis for utilising SMAHRT as the tool for decarbonising the INLAND RAIL project and ascertain the market opportunity to maximise impact for the commercialisation of the technology within the Australian market. Clearly the decarbonisation benefits by optimising efficiency of this generation and implementation of zero emission technology, are substantial.