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By
Clarion Energy Content Directors
October
13, 2023
World first: Gas turbine successfully operates with
100% green hydrogen
(SGT-400 industrial gas turbine. Image credit: Siemens Energy)
Latest
test results on the Siemens Energy SGT-400 industrial gas turbine show
the turbines can be fueled with up to 100% hydrogen, as well as with
natural gas and any blends in between.
The successful demonstration
took place at the HYFLEXPOWER project site at the Smurfit Kappa paper
packaging plant in Saillat-sur-Vienne, France.
The project aims to show that
it’s possible to convert an existing gas-fired power turbine to
operate using renewable hydrogen and that hydrogen can be used as a
flexible energy storage medium.
According to Siemens Energy, in
2022, initial tests saw the gas turbine operate with a 30% hydrogen
content, mixed with natural gas. Now the power-to-hydrogen-to-power
demonstrator has proven that turbines with dry low emissions
technology can be fueled with up to 100% hydrogen as well as with
natural gas and any blends in between.
“The knowledge and experience
gained from the HYFLEXPOWER project where we installed the 1st gas
turbine to run on 100% hydrogen will help us to continue develop our
entire gas turbine fleet for a hydrogen-based future. The interaction
between electrolysis, storage and hydrogen conversion at one site has
been impressively demonstrated, and now it’s a matter of scaling the
results,” says Karim Amin, member of the Executive Board of Siemens
Energy.
HYFLEXPOWER
project
The HYFLEXPOWER consortium
includes Siemens Energy, ENGIE via its subsidiary ENGIE Solutions,
Centrax, Arttic, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and four European
universities.
For the demonstrator
project, hydrogen is produced by a 1 MW electrolyzer on-site, and then
stored in an almost one-ton tank and used to power a Siemens Energy
SGT-400 industrial gas turbine.
The project, which has received
funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Program for
Research and Innovation, is now looking to extend its operation to
industrial heat production and the consortium is exploring ways of
scaling up and commercializing the project.
Frank Lacroix, ENGIE executive
vice president in charge of Energy Solutions, commented on the
achievement: “At ENGIE, we are very proud of this world first. The
HYFLEXPOWER project is remarkable for many reasons: for the
exceptional collaboration it has enabled between several European
partners, for the forward-looking technologies it has tested, and for
the promising prospects it opens up for the use of renewable hydrogen
in the industrial sectors most difficult to decarbonize. We look
forward to continuing this decisive work for the future of
decarbonized industry with our partners.”
“We’re proud that our Saillat
paper mill has been the host for this project because trialing new and
emerging technology, such as hydrogen, aligns with our decarbonization
strategy and Better Planet 2050 journey. Today’s announcement is a
great milestone that puts us in good stead,” says Garrett Quinn, chief
sustainability officer at Smurfit Kappa.
Smurfit Kappa is one of
Europe’s leading producers of corrugated packaging, containerboard and
‘bag in box’ packages.
Originally published on Power Engineering
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