Unlike fuel cells, this type of system burns H2 in the same way conventional systems use natural gas.
A hydrogen boiler is just what you think it would be. It is a system that burns Hydrogen instead of using natural gas.
Appliances using hydrogen work quite similarly to the ones that are outfitted for use with natural gas.
Hydrogen boilers use combustion to burn the H2 gas, which produces hot flue gases which can be used for heating water. Once the water is hot, it can be stored to be used at a later time. Among the applications can be hot water that comes from a faucet or to warm up radiators throughout a home for home heating purposes, for instance.
Since H2 is thinner than natural gas, there are certain components that differ between the two systems. For instance, the burner and the flame detector are different between these two types of system. That said, they still…