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Concluding Remarks Countrywide pipeline networks need to be
developed.
Transition to a hydrogen-based economy faces several
challenges. Availability of suitable and sustainable Safety issues for hydrogen handling need to
infrastructure plays a critical role in promoting be resolved by framing appropriate codes and
Hydrogen for several industrial sectors standards.

Hydrogen infrastructure development and the
associated production, storage, distribution
technologies must be further researched to achieve
energy security and economic development objectives. Author

To summarise, challenges are: Atul Choudhari
Deputy Chief Technology Officer
Available technologies for hydrogen production, Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE)
storage and distribution need further development.

The existing fossil fuel-based processes need to
adapt to CCS methods to make them financially References:
attractive.
• International Energy Agency, The future of Hydrogen,
In the transportation sector, the costs of fuel cells June 2019
need to be reduced further.
• Report prepared by Steering Committee on Hydrogen
Lightweight materials and alternate technologies Energy and Fuel Cells, Ministry of New and Renewable
for hydrogen storage need development. Energy, Government of India, New Delhi Hydrogen Energy
and Fuel Cells in India – A way Forward, June 2016

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