STS: Bir Disiplin Olarak Kimlik İnşası
The Role of Natural Gas Network in Hydrogen Transportation
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Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi Yayınları
The role of hydrogen in the energy sector is strongly perceived and several action strategies are initiated in several countries. It is strongly expected by the hydrogen system promoters that the change in the identity of one of the main elements of the energy system (transition from the methane molecule, main component of natural gas, to the hydrogen molecule) can be handled by a kind of “cooperation” between the two gaseous molecules in order to occasion the least impact on global energy systems. The present study highlights that a change in a sub-element (the energy carrier) of the energy system, which is one of the examples of Large-Scale Social-Technical Systems (LSSTS), may affect the whole energy system and gradually other LSSTSs too; and eventually the overall social system. One of the cooperation strategies envisaged between these two gases is to transport the “natural gas + hydrogen” couple using the existing natural gas pipelines. This combustible mixture is expected to be used in existing energy technologies without any problem, to some extent. The preliminary results of this study show that it would not be so easy for these two gaseous acrobats to play on the same tightrope.
