There is growing interest in the economics of nuclear hydrogen production as a zero-carbon based technology. Therefore, the IAEA has developed the Hydrogen Economic Evaluation Programme (HEEP) to support Member States interested in the economic assessment of this technology.
To make sure that HEEP stands as a robust tool, the IAEA launched this CRP aiming not only to perform benchmark for HEEP but also to collect up-to-date information on the status of various processes currently under R&D. Indeed, within the work of this CRP, four detailed generic case studies have been established and will be embedded in addition to the five IAEA case studies prepared. As a result, the objectives of the CRP have been successfully achieved through different activities and reported in four research coordination meetings.
The most tangible outcome of this CRP was the release of an updated version of HEEP benchmarked against well-known codes for the economic assessment of nuclear hydrogen production such as H2A, G4-ECONS and other in-house tools from Pakistan and Japan. The new version of HEEP has several advantages over all other codes due to its extended library to all processes including copper-chlorine (Cu-Cl), sulfur-iodine (S-I) and hybrid sulfur (HyS) cycles for large scale nuclear hydrogen production.
Among other achievements of this CRP, participants have published more than 30 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, in international conferences, and in edited books by respected publishers.
Eleven researchers and experts have participated in this project from: Algeria, Argentina, Canada, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, and the USA.
A TECDOC was published in 2018:
For more information, please see the CRP description:
http://www.dgdingfa.net/projects/crp/i35004
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