Who makes the liquid hydrogen and how is it transported around the world?
For more than 70 years, Linde has liquefied hydrogen on an industrial scale and used it for a variety of applications. Most of the time, liquid hydrogen is transported by liquid hydrogen tankers. For BMW’s Hydrogen 7 event, for instance, the tank carrying liquid hydrogen was transported from Melbourne to Singapore by sea freight. The liquid hydrogen was sourced from a liquefaction plant in China. How much does liquid hydrogen cost and what kind of mileage can it give the Hydrogen 7? Since hydrogen is an energy carrier, the price is largely dependent on the feedstock/primary energy it carries. The cost of today’s industrial hydrogen depends on: feedstock, production capacity, order size, pressure, purity, distance to application and reliability of supply. Moreover, the cost of hydrogen depends on the production methods. Per energy content, hydrogen is cheapest when produced from natural gas, which is, ex-works, cheaper than petrol at today’s refuelling stations (including tax). The Hydr
