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SOUTH AFRICA’S NUCLEAR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME<br />

Figure 2: A road map for future hydrogen production<br />

NUCLEAR<br />

ENERGY<br />

SOLAR ENERGY<br />

Uranium<br />

HTGR<br />

Electricity /<br />

Process Heat<br />

2018+<br />

Process<br />

Heat<br />

Industrial<br />

HYDROGEN<br />

PRODUCTION<br />

Water<br />

Water-<br />

Splitting<br />

<strong>Hydrogen</strong> &<br />

Oxygen<br />

2020+<br />

Industry<br />

2030<br />

H 2 Fuel<br />

Industrial<br />

Transport<br />

FOSSIL TO<br />

LIQUIDS<br />

Coal<br />

Coal-to-<br />

Liquids<br />

Liquid Fuels<br />

IC Engine<br />

Transport<br />

OTHER<br />

Steel and<br />

Other<br />

Figure 3: A schematic <strong>of</strong> the HyS process<br />

Electrical power<br />

generation<br />

HTGR / VHTR<br />

High temp. heat<br />

source<br />

H 2<br />

Electrical power<br />

Thermal<br />

energy ><br />

900˚C<br />

Electrochemical<br />

reaction<br />

conc. H 2 SO 4<br />

H 2 SO 4 (aq)<br />

Sulfuric acid<br />

decomposition<br />

H 2 O<br />

SO 2 re-circulate<br />

SO 2 & O 2<br />

separation<br />

SO 2 & O 2<br />

O 2<br />

Westinghouse demonstrated the HyS process in 1978 through the operation <strong>of</strong> an integrated<br />

laboratory bench scale model producing 120 L/hr <strong>of</strong> hydrogen. Work on the HyS continued until 1983<br />

after which no research was carried out for a long period. Through advances in the electrochemical<br />

industries [mainly chlor-alkali production and hydrogen proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells]<br />

opportunities arose to lower the capital and operating costs and increase the efficiency <strong>of</strong> the HyS<br />

process from what was achieved by 1983.<br />

NUCLEAR PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN – © OECD/NEA 2010 207

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