Do hydrogen production and refueling station projects need to obtain a safety production license for hazardous chemicals?
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The use of hydrogen energy is becoming increasingly widespread, and the production, storage, transportation, and refilling of hydrogen energy are also becoming more common. So, do hydrogen production stations and hydrogen refueling stations need to obtain a license for the safe handling of hazardous chemicals? Is there still differential treatment?
According to current departmental regulations, hydrogen refueling stations must obtain a license for handling hazardous chemicals and a license for cylinder filling. The hydrogen production plant must obtain a hazardous chemicals production license, a licensing for the filling of mobile pressure vessels (tube trailers), and a gas cylinder filling license (for hydrogen cylinders and cylinder bundles). Permits for the operation and production of hazardous chemicals are handled by the Emergency Management Bureau; permits for the filling of gas cylinders and mobile pressure vessels are handled by the Market Regulation Bureau.
Previous methods for hydrogen production relied mainly on fossil fuels and chemical processes to generate blue hydrogen or gray hydrogen; as a result, hydrogen was included in the **List of Hazardous Chemicals**, and accordingly, hydrogen production facilities and hydrogen refueling stations required permits for the safe handling of hazardous chemicals. As the trend of producing green hydrogen by using new energy sources such as solar, wind, and hydrogen-producing technologies grows, if the management regulations for safety permits for handling hazardous chemicals are applied, some hydrogen production and refueling stations may not meet the requirements to obtain such permits. Recently, Hebei Province issued the \"Provisional Measures for the Safety Management of the Hydrogen Energy Industry in Hebei Province.\" These measures stipulate that hydrogen energy enterprises shall be supervised and managed according to their industry categories, and no license for the safe production of green hydrogen is required.
It’s not as simple as you think; in fact, there are already industrial facilities that operate outside chemical parks, such as many air separation units used in the electronics industry. However, not being located in a chemical industrial park does not mean that one is exempt from obtaining a license for the production of hazardous chemicals. If Hebei proceeds in this manner, it will make it impossible to obtain licenses for industrial product production, as well as causing a whole range of other problems.
Hydrogen refueling stations only need to obtain a gas operation license; in the case of integrated production and processing, no production license is required if hydrogen is produced from new energy sources