Grugliasco (Turin), Oct 28, 2024
On 23th and 24th October, COMAU joined the Hydrogen & Carbon Capture Technology Expo Europe in Hamburg (Germany), proving its role as a worldwide leading technology partner in the hydrogen industry.
The Hydrogen & Carbon Capture Technology Expo Europe is the global must-attend event for the hydrogen industry community. The exhibition brings together more than 800 exhibitors, 300 international speakers and 15,000 visitors, to discuss everything from technologies and solutions in several applications: from low-carbon hydrogen production to efficient storage, to transport and infrastructure, as well as advanced design, testing, development, manufacturing solutions and advanced materials for hydrogen fuel cells.
Comau strongly believes in the growth perspective of the global hydrogen market, over the next decade. Industry associations and market researchers confirm the growing trend. The European Environment Agency, for example, reports that more than a quarter of total CO2 emissions in Europe comes from transports: the transition to fuel-efficient vehicles, powered by renewable sources such as hydrogen, therefore becomes a priority to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and get closer to the EU goal of total decarbonization. IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency, estimates that hydrogen will be equal to 12 percent of global energy consumption by 2050; the Agency also says that the cost of hydrogen infrastructures and plants could decrease from 40 percent to 80 percent in the coming years. According to McKinsey (Hydrogen Insights, December 2023, Hydrogen Council) it is expected that we will be counting about 1,400 clean hydrogen projects worldwide, reaching a value of over 330 billion dollars.
Supporting the growth of the hydrogen industry worldwide, at the Hydrogen & Carbon Capture Technology Expo Europe in Hamburg, within the Italian Pavillion, COMAU showcased its experience, its skills and its latest technologies – from robot families to vision systems, IoT software traceability – capable of automating the key hydrogen-related manufacturing processes, starting from the production of electrolysers and fuel cells, from cell preparation to stacking, compression, welding and leak testing.
COMAU’s solutions are already in use with industry-leading customers from Europe to China, to the United States. There are projects underway in fuel cell stacking and welding applications for the production of components for alkaline electrolysers.
At the Hydrogen & Carbon Capture Technology Expo Europe Lucrezia Morabito, Product and Solution Manager at COMAU’s Advanced Automation Solutions Business Unit, joined the Panel “Automation and digitalisation for fuel cells and electrolysers”. On stage with international experienced technical experts in the hydrogen industry, Lucrezia Morabito discussed digitalisation, automation and artificial intelligence in the fuel cell and electrolyser manufacturing industries and examined the latest techniques in their design and development at an industry scale.
“Advanced automation and digitalization are key pillars to build an effective and sustainable hydrogen-based economy in a long-term and global perspective”, said Lucrezia Morabito.
COMAU confirms its commitment in the hydrogen industry worldwide, helping companies to increase production volumes, to improve product and processes quality and, at the same time, to reduce processing costs, through safe, sustainable and repeatable processes on an industrial scale. The role of COMAU’s advanced automation, scalable and supported by simultaneous design approach, therefore becomes essential in the future widespread adoption of hydrogen technologies.