Canadian underground mining likely to take hydrogen ventilation lead – HySA

Canadian and Australian mines are big on wanting hydrogen ventilation in underground mining operations, and Canada will likely lead the introduction of hydrogen ventilation and green mobility beyond the openpit environment, says Professor Dmitri Bessarabov, the director of the Department of Science and Innovation's National Centre of Competence: Hydrogen South Africa (HySA) Infrastructure. Bessarabov, who addressed the South African Institute of Electrical Engineering at a virtual event on hydrogen energy storage, showed a picture of himself 3.5 km down a hard-rock mine in Canada, a mining jurisdiction he believes will be the first to adopt emission-free hydrogen ventilation technology underground.