Global Hydrogen demand reached 97 million tons in 2023.* We’ll look at applications of Lean and Six
Sigma in the hydrogen industry and finish with a video of how hydrogen is produced.
*Source

Six Sigma Methodology Applied to a Gasification Process

In a paper titled “Application of the Six Sigma DMAIC Methodology to the Gasification Process”
“… this chapter explores the synergies between gasification and Six Sigma DMAIC to improve gas quality and hydrogen production, using RDF [Refuse-defined Fuels] and wood as feedstock.”
“The project scope is to use the Six Sigma DMAIC methodology to find two optimal process conditions (1) RDF/Wood Blending and (2) Equivalence Ratio by running co-gasification experiments at 785°C and atmospheric pressure, using different RDF/Wood blending and different Equivalence Ratio, and parallelly look for improvements in the co-gasification process of the pilot-scale bubbling fluidized bed reactor of the University of Aveiro to reduce variance in the syngas composition and COPO for future studies.”
The paper includes:

  • SIPOC
  • Design of Experiment for Best Mixture and Equivalence Ratio
  • Fishbone Diagram for Sources of Variance
  • FMEA

You can read the paper here.

Hydrogen Powered Vehicles Through Fuel Cells

A presentation titled “Hydrogen Fuel Cells for Powered Industrial Vehicles” discusses a project that
began as a Lean Six Sigma Project at the US Postal Service Washington Network Distribution Center
(NDC) to reduce costs and increase Powered Industrial Vehicle (PIV) Operator productivity.
The project discusses the potential for replacing lead-acid battery powered vehicles with hydrogen fuel
cell powered ones.

You can access the presentation here.

Using Six Sigma Methodology in a Hydrogen Power Plant

In a paper titled “Hydrogen Economy and Innovative Six Sigma Applications for Energy Efficiency”
authors Sudi Apak , Güngör Tuncer and Erhan Atay discuss the use of Six Sigma methodology in a
hydrogen power plant through their Six Sigma research objectives and research questions.

Copy and paste the following link into your browser to read the paper.

Producing Hydrogen
See how hydrogen is produced in this video from JAES Company. You can watch the video here.

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