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IHI to Begin Developing Wholly
Liquid Ammonia-Fueled Gas Turbine that Is Free of Carbon Dioxide
Emissions
IHI Corporation announced today that Japan’s New Energy and Industrial
Technology Development Organization (NEDO) has commissioned the
company, Tohoku University, and the National Institute of Advanced
Industrial Science and Technology to undertake a liquid ammonia-fueled
gas turbine research and development project as part of the Green
Innovation Fund’s (see note 1) Fuel Ammonia Supply Chain Development
Project.
2,000-kilowatt-class IM270 gas turbine to be employed in this R&D
initiative
Ammonia is free of carbon dioxide emissions and can fuel existing
power facilities. It is also a common raw material for fertilizers and
chemical products. A solid production, transportation, and storage
infrastructure is already in place. Broad adoption of ammonia across
society should accordingly be rapid as an energy source that can help
realize carbon neutrality.
For this new initiative, IHI and its R&D partners will develop a
technology for 100% liquid ammonia combustion in a
2,000-kilowatt-class class gas turbine to cut greenhouse gas emissions
from gas turbine cogeneration systems (see note 2). They will conduct
demonstration tests to acquire operational expertise and verify safety
measures with a view to swiftly commercializing this technology.
Feasibility studies regarding ammonia’s challenges and utility in
power generation should enhance commercialization potential. This
project will run through the year ending March 31, 2028.
Gas turbines that burn liquid ammonia directly into combustors offer
several commercial advantages. They include simpler supply channels
from storage tanks to the gas turbines and better controllability.
This form of ammonia burns less easily than natural or ammonia gases,
however, so key challenges are to stabilize flames and reduce exhaust
gas toxicity. This project will develop combustion technology that
resolves these issues.
IHI is intensively developing hydrogen and ammonia utilization
technologies and building supply chains for these energy sources. The
company will provide carbon recycling technology and other solutions
to help materialize a zero-carbon, circular economy.
Notes:
1.
Green Innovation Fund project
NEDO created this 2 trillion yen fund to accelerate current efforts,
such as to structurally transform the energy and industrial sectors
and innovate by investing extensively to achieve carbon neutrality by
2050. The fund provides ongoing support, from R&D and demonstrations
through social implementation of outcomes, for up to 10 years for
companies tackling shared goals through collaboration between the
public and private sectors. NEDO assists primarily in 14 priority
areas for which the Green Growth Strategy has formulated action plans.
2. Gas turbine cogeneration system
This cogeneration setup uses fuel to generate electricity with
a gas turbine while simultaneously recovering process steam or other
energy from waste heat.
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