The clean hydrogen economy and Saudi Arabia: domestic developments and international opportunities

Table of contents:
Chapter 1: The Clean Hydrogen Economy and Saudi Arabia: Introduction – by Jan Frederik Braun, Rami Shabaneh, Saumitra Saxena, and Jitendra Roychoudhury

PART 1: THE CLEAN HYDROGEN ECONOMY AND SAUDI ARABIA: DOMESTIC DEVELOPMENTS

Chapter 2: Saudi Arabia’s Clean Hydrogen Journey: Past, Present and Future – by Rami Shabaneh and Jan Frederik Braun

Chapter 3: Saudi Aramco's Clean Hydrogen Efforts: Between Economic Diversification and Effective Climate Action– by Jim Krane and Jan Frederik Braun

Chapter 4: SABIC’s Pathway to Carbon Neutrality and the Role of Hydrogen– by Abdulaziz Al Jodai, Pieter Smeets, Fahad Al Shehery, and Hicham Idriss

Chapter 5: Green Hydrogen in Saudi Arabia’s NEOM – by Frank Wouters

Chapter 6: Global Landscape of Research, Development, Demonstration and Innovation in Hydrogen Technology: Learnings for Saudi Arabia – by Saumitra Saxena, Bassam Dally, Kevin E. Cullen, and William L. Roberts

PART 2: THE CLEAN HYDROGEN ECONOMY AND SAUDI ARABIA: INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

Chapter 7: Hydrogen Investment: Carving Out a Competitive Position for the MENA Region in the Energy Transition – by Wa' el Almazeedi

Chapter 8: Europe’s Hydrogen Pathways: Toward a Balanced Partnership with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf – by Jan Frederik Braun, Ad van Wijk, and Kirsten Westphal

Chapter 9: Hydrogen in China: Crucial Opportunities for Transitioning to a Low-Carbon Economy – by Tianduo Peng, Xun Xu, Lining Wang, Jiaquan Dai

Chapter 10: The Evolving Hydrogen Economy in the United States – by Naomi L. Boness and Gireesh Shrimali

Chapter 11: The Role of Hydrogen in Australia’s Decarbonization and Export Strategy– by Bart Kolodziejczyk

Chapter 12: Using Hydrogen for Decarbonization, Industrial Development, and Energy Security – Shared Ambitions for Japan, ASEAN Member States, and India – by Yoshiaki Shibata, Victor Nian, Amit Bhandari, and Jitendra Roychoudhury

Chapter 13: Role of Hydrogen in Meeting South Korea’s Economic, Environmental, and Strategic Targets – by Jinsok Sung and Zlata Sergeeva

Chapter 14: The Role of Hydrogen in the Russian Energy Sector: Between the Diversification of Export Revenues and Low-Carbon Development – by Yury Melnikov

PART 3: THE CLEAN HYDROGEN ECONOMY AND SAUDI ARABIA: HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGIES

Chapter 15: Scientific Understanding of Climate Change and Air Pollution, and Their Interrelationships with the Prospective Hydrogen Economy in Saudi Arabia– by Saumitra Saxena, and William Roberts

Chapter 16: Hydrogen Value Chain: Critical platform of the Energy Transition Ecosystem – by Alexander John Cruz

Chapter 17: Saudia Arabia and the Hydrogen Economy: Blue and Green Hydrogen Value Chain– by Michelle Schoonover, Mustafa Alkhabbaz, Mark D’Agostini

Chapter 18: Mission Decarbonization: Large-Scale Commercial Solutions for Water Electrolysis – by Erika Niino-Esser, Malcolm Cook, and Ralph Kleinschmidt

Chapter 19: Role of Carbon Capture in Enabling a Blue Hydrogen Economy – by Deoras Prabhudharwadkar, William Roberts, Robert Dibble, Larry Baxter

Chapter 20: Geological Hydrogen Storage – by Hussein Hoteit and Abdulkader Afifi

Chapter 21: Green Hydrogen and E-Fuels: A Saudi Arabian Perspective – by Shashank S. Nagaraja and S. Mani Sarathy

Chapter 22: The Potential Role of Hydrogen in Decarbonizing Heavy Industry in Saudi Arabia – by Bassam Dally

Chapter 23: The Potential of Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engines for Heavy-Duty Applications – by James W. Turner, Sebastian Verhelst, Manuel E. Marquez

Chapter 24: KACST’s R&D Activities Toward a Clean Hydrogen Economy – by Naif B. Alqahtani, Abdullah AlAbduly, Abdullah Alkhedhair, Nezar H. Khdary, Afrah M. Aldawsari, Mahdi Alqahtani, Nawal Al Abass, Ahmad Alharbi, and Bandar AlOtaibi

Chapter 25: Hydrogen Production Using Nuclear Energy – by Abdulrahim Al Judaibi, Sharaf AlSharif, and Saleh Al Harbi

Chapter 26: Production, Cracking, and Use of Green Ammonia to Support the Hydrogen Economy – by Omar Behar, Saumitra Saxena, Deoras Prabhudharwadkar, Bassam Dally, and William Roberts

Chapter 27: Desalination: Water Supply for Saudi Arabia’s Green Hydrogen Production – by Friedrich Alt and Christopher M. Fellows

Chapter 28: The Clean Hydrogen Economy and Saudi Arabia: Findings and Final Thoughts – by Saumitra Saxena, Jan Fredrik Braun, Rami Shabaneh, and Jitendra Roychoudhury


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This book provides a first-of-its-kind analysis of the emerging global hydrogen economy from the vantage point of one of the world’s biggest energy providers: Saudi Arabia. In 2021, and within the context of the Circular Carbon Economy framework, Saudi Arabia announced its goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2060 and produce a substantial amount of clean hydrogen annually by 2030. The Kingdom is optimally situated geographically between the major demand markets in Europe and North Asia, from where it can leverage clean hydrogen exports as a potential tool to become a player of strategic importance and successfully diversify its economy under its Vision 2030 program. More broadly, the book charts a course for fossil fuel-exporting countries such as Saudi Arabia to carve a competitive position for themselves over the forthcoming decades using clean hydrogen as a catalyst for the energy transition.

With contributions from global energy experts, the chapters in this book provide a multifaceted analysis of the "who," "what," "where," and "why" related to clean hydrogen development within and beyond Saudi Arabia. Collectively, the contributions analyze the countries and regions relevant to Saudi Arabia in terms of dedicated hydrogen policies, projects, and approaches that aim to incentivize production and demand in an increasingly carbon-constrained world. The book is a timely, unique and an indispensable resource for practitioners and students of energy, geopolitics, and climate policy working on hydrogen in academia, applied research, national government bodies, and international organizations.

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