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Some questions related to applying liquid para-hydrogen in hydrogen energy are considered. The necessity to organize a business consortium for accelerated development of the technological basis for manufacture, storage and transportation of liquid para-hydrogen is discussed; the achievements of Boreskov Institute of Catalysis in the field of catalyst development and investigation of the process of ortho-para conversion of hydrogen are presented. According to low-waste technologies involving modern domestic materials, newly updated catalysts based on bulk iron oxide (BIC-5-1M) and on nickel oxide supported on the novel alumina support (BIC-5-4M) for ortho-para conversion of hydrogen were developed. Their catalytic activity was demonstrated to be comparable with the catalysts developed previously under the leadership of R. A. Buyanov, BIC-5-1 and BIC-5-4, which were applied in the industrial process of liquid para-hydrogen production. A technology of BIC-5-1M catalyst manufacturing was developed, and a pilot catalyst batch of 1 t was prepared for experimental-industrial trials.