Jera to blend hydrogen at gas power plant in Japan
SUMMARY
The company plans to switch 30% of the LNG used to hydrogen.
By Shardul SharmaPOSTED IN:
Jera will start a demonstration project related to hydrogen utilisation at an LNG thermal power plant in Japan. The project is under the government’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation’s Green Innovation Fund programme.
The project will switch a portion of the LNG used to generate electricity at the power plant to hydrogen and evaluate the resulting operational and environmental characteristics over a period of approximately five years from October 2021 to March 2025, Jera said.
Based on the results, Jera aims to construct hydrogen supply facilities and other related facilities at the plant, to install combustors capable of co-firing hydrogen and LNG in its gas turbines, and to switch approximately 30% of the LNG used, or 10% of heating value, to hydrogen by the 2025 fiscal year.
This is Japan's first initiative to use a large amount of hydrogen as fuel in a large-scale commercial LNG thermal power plant, Jera said.
