Toyota will be using the very
first general-purpose hydrogen burners at its factories and industrial plants
in Japan in a bid to reduce dangerous emissions.
Previously,
hydrogen burners produced dangerous levels of nitrous oxide due to reactions
between hydrogen and oxygen. The new burner will separate the two elements and
lower concentration of oxygen. It will reduce nitrous-oxygen emissions and
completely eliminate carbon dioxide emissions.
Hydrogen burners
are already being used at Toyota’s Honsha plant. It plans to replace 1,000
natural gas burners across its Japanese plants with the new burners.
It has plans to
gradually introduce the hydrogen burners at other plants too.
Previously, the
company had challenged itself to eliminate CO2 emissions at its plants, adding
to Japan’s environmental goals of eliminating non-electric cars by 2050.
If this
technology is adopted by other companies, the effect would be widespread for
the environment.
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