The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has notified the use of Hydrogen as an automotive fuel in the country. It has notified an 18% blend of Hydrogen with CNG.<\/span><\/p>\n Must Read: <\/b>About Hydrogen Fuel<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n HCNG stands for Hydrogen-enriched Compressed Natural Gas. HCNG is produced by blending hydrogen with CNG.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It <\/span>can be used in place of gasoline, diesel fuel\/LPG and its combustion produce fewer undesirable gases in comparison to normal automobile fuel.<\/span><\/p>\n What are the benefits of HCNG? <\/b>The most important benefit of HCNG are:<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 It emits 70% less carbon monoxide<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 reduces total hydrocarbons emissions by around 15%\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 increases fuel efficiency by 3-4%<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 The power output of HCNG is better than CNG<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 HCNG is easier and safer to use than hydrogen as it contains very low energy content from hydrogen, i.e., up to 30% by volume.<\/span><\/p>\n The physical blending of CNG and hydrogen involves a series of energy-intensive steps that would make H-CNG more expensive than CNG<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n Need a change in the structural aspects of the engine and creation of new infrastructure for preparing HCNG.<\/span><\/p>\n Determining the most optimised H2\/ NG (Natural Gas) ratio.<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article \u201c<\/b>Hydrogen Fuel for Vehicles<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in PIB <\/b>on 10th Feb 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has notified the use of Hydrogen as an automotive fuel in the country. It has notified an 18% blend of Hydrogen with CNG. Must Read: About Hydrogen Fuel What is HCNG? HCNG stands for Hydrogen-enriched Compressed Natural Gas. HCNG is produced by blending hydrogen… Continue reading HCNG: Hydrogen Fuel for Vehicles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-167724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is HCNG?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What are the concerns associated with HCNG?<\/b><\/h5>\n