A vision for Iran’s fuel cell and hydrogen development

Alipour, Mohammad; Sheykhan, Abbas

doi:10.1007/s13762-016-1102-4

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“…However, predominantly owing to the absence of necessary support and convenient investment, entire activates in the fuel cell field in Iran have not fulfilled the National Fuel Cell Development Plan. Uninterrupted assistance and funding by government has apparently an undeniable leading role in reinforcing the infrastructural progress of fuel cell technology in various aspects, from primary studies to construction of pilot systems and facilities [129].…”

Section: Fuel Cell and Hydrogenmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Way of Policy Making to Reduce the Reliance of Fossil Fuels: Case Study of Iran

Aien

Mahdavi

2020

Sustainability

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Nowadays, fossil fuels are well known as a predominant source of energy in the planet. Located in the Middle East region, Iran holds one of the largest fossil fuel reservoirs in the world. The country has abundant oil and natural gas fields in various regions; some of them are shared between other countries and have not reached their operational capacity yet. Meanwhile, during recent years and due to global warming followed by environmental global contracts such as Kyoto protocol, using fossil fuels is being criticized to a large extent around the world. Therefore, the global interest has been focused toward clean energy resources. Furthermore, endowed with sundry geographical pattern throughout its land, Iran has adequate renewable energy potentials. So, there will be a serious paradox affecting its whole energy policy: more exploration and extraction of conventional fossil fuels or take advantage of renewable and sustainable energy resources? In this paper, energy structure of Iran is generally overviewed, followed by study of renewable energy potentials in various parts of the country. Afterwards, policy making in renewable energy market, systems, and applicable strategies are elaborated. Furthermore, a number of barriers obstructing the development path of renewable energy schemes and initiatives are presented and discussed in detail.

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Section: Fuel Cell and Hydrogenmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Way of Policy Making to Reduce the Reliance of Fossil Fuels: Case Study of Iran

Aien

Mahdavi

2020

Sustainability

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“…Undoubtedly, various works of literature put forth the effort to overview the technical progress and challenges in FC technology development; however, most of the articles are concentrated on one facet, either a particular application or a particular component of FCs . Articles are also available describing some specific domain or region‐centric issues . All these reports are potent and have been serving as important resources.…”

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Recent advances, unsolved deficiencies, and future perspectives of hydrogen fuel cells in transportation and portable sectors

et al. 2019

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Considering the prevailing energy crisis and fast economic growth, the demand for clean alternative power sources for applications in stationary, transportation, and the portable sectors is increasing continuously. In this regard, fuel cell (FC) technology has already proved its potency as an alternative power unit for stationary applications, and now it is gearing up to serve in portable and transportation sectors. This literature review demonstrates the current status, technical accomplishments, and future perspectives of the hydrogen FC in both transportation and portable sectors. It highlights the advancement and current status of FC technology in the urban transit system admitting all the major field applications such as land ways, waterways, airways, and railways. It also highlights small power units for military equipment, auxiliary power units (APU), educational kits, and consumer electronics gadgets such as laptops, smartphone, and chargers, etc. Moreover, the major obstacles that restrict the widespread commercialization of FCs such as fuel storage and distribution, proper hydrogen infrastructure, and operational costs are thoroughly discussed. The future perspective and target toward the development of cost-effective stack are also reported here. We believe that it could serve as a valuable resource for the researchers working on the development of FC technology.

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“…This was a knee-jerk policy reaction to avoid further consequences of international limitations, a similar case to the nuclear infrastructure expansion during sanctions period (2011-2015). There are also other vast domains of critical uncertainties surrounding the sector; numerous legal constraints, political and geopolitical instability, inefficient economic institutions and governmental structure of the economy are just a handful of problems in this respect [4][5][6]. These challenges could be expanded through more unstable concepts for the long-term energy exports security (EES) pathways, directing the government to emphasize unsustainable development with a short-term prospect.…”

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Long-term policy evaluation: Application of a new robust decision framework for Iran's energy exports security

Alipour

Hafezi

Ervural

et al. 2018

Energy

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The objective of this research is to assess long-term energy security policy under uncertain environment. Uncertainty is an integral part of the energy policy analysis in long-term planning, in particular for energy-exporting countries seeking to secure sustainable export revenues. This study proposes a framework to evaluate energy export policy at the strategic level by addressing inherent uncertainties exist in energy-exporting countries. Seven criteria (political, economic, social, technological, legal, environmental, and robustness) are considered to appraise the identified energy export security alternatives. A new hybrid Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) model is proposed based on intuitionistic fuzzy sets suitable for uncertain judgments that integrates Intuitionistic Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (IFAHP) and the Cumulative Belief Degree (CBD) methods. CBD, which is strengthened by IFAHP in determining criteria weights, allows experts to freely evaluate alternatives in various formats and can successfully deal with missing judgments by experts in case of doubt, eligibility or lack of information. Scenario planning is also incorporated into the decision-making process by determining four realistic projections. As a case study, the proposed framework is applied to analyze Iran's energy export security. Results suggest that natural gas has the highest export priority while petroleum products (excluding gasoline) stand last in all scenarios.

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A vision for Iran’s fuel cell and hydrogen development

Cited by 13 publications

References 56 publications

On the Way of Policy Making to Reduce the Reliance of Fossil Fuels: Case Study of Iran

On the Way of Policy Making to Reduce the Reliance of Fossil Fuels: Case Study of Iran

Recent advances, unsolved deficiencies, and future perspectives of hydrogen fuel cells in transportation and portable sectors

Long-term policy evaluation: Application of a new robust decision framework for Iran's energy exports security

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