NTPC Energy Technology Research Alliance (NETRA), the R&D wing of India’s largest integrated power utility, demonstrated successful H₂ cooking with supply of H₂ from the existing green H₂ plant at its campus at Greater Noida.

Burning characteristics of H₂ is much different from LPG or PNG wrt flame color (almost invisible), flame temperature (1200-1500C), flame propagation speed, etc. Also, unlike LPG or PNG, H₂ cannot be premixed with air prior to its ignition – else it would form explosive mixture.

Considering above, H₂ burner was designed and used in a modified cookstove to prepare food. It may also be mentioned that the emission from H₂ burner is only water vapor with zero carboneous element.

Shri Arne Ballantine, CEO (Ohmium), Shri Shaswattam, ED (NETRA) and senior officials present to mark the occasion iterated versatility of green H₂ as a clean energy source to support environmental and sustainability efforts across a diverse array of applications.

NTPC has successfully commissioned blending project that incorporate green H₂ with piped natural gas (PNG) at Kawas, green H₂ mobility project in Leh is set to be commissioned besides another project for setting up green H₂-based microgrids in remote locations for Indian Army is in progress.