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Energy Policy Simulator - United States
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Add partial oxidation (POX) hydrogen production technology #313

Closed dobrien13 closed 1 month ago

dobrien13 commented 4 months ago

POX makes up ~10% of EU's H2 production, and nearly 50% of H2 made on-site at refineries. (https://www.petrochemistry.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Petrochemicals_Paper_hydrogen-1.pdf)

For now, we assign this share to steam reforming, but most POX uses heavy fuel or residue stream of the refinery, so we are currently mis-representing feedstock use in refining somewhat significantly.

dobrien13 commented 1 month ago

In commit #7f56967, I replaced thermochemical water splitting with partial oxidation of hydrocarbons. I simply changed each input file and modified the hydrogen production pathway subscript. For review @mkmahajan if you have a minute!