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The world’s first integrated power-to-X-to-power hydrogen gas turbine demonstrator - Chemical Engineering
The world’s first integrated power-to-X-to-power hydrogen gas turbine demonstrator.
The implementation of this project, the world’s very first industrial-scale power-to-X-to-power demonstrator with an advanced hydrogen turbine, will be launched at Smurfit Kappa PRF’s site — a company specialized in manufacturing recycled paper — in Saillat-sur-Vienne, France. The purpose of this project is to prove that hydrogen can be produced and stored from renewable electricity and then added with up to 100% to the natural gas currently used with combined heat and power plants. For this an existing Siemens SGT-400 industrial gas turbine will be upgraded to convert stored hydrogen into electricity and thermal energy.
The world’s first integrated power-to-X-to-power hydrogen gas turbine demonstrator - Chemical Engineering
With the HyflexPower project, a consortium — made up of Engie Solutions (Paris, France), Siemens Gas and Power GmbH & Co. KG (Munich, Germany), Centrax
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Charley, I'm not aware of anyone opposed to offshore wind electricity to help offset natural gas/coal generation.. Donald Trump opposed it because he thought the turbines spoiled the view from his golf course, but who cares?
Hydrogen is a different story.
It's important to remember we're assuming the day will come when hydrogen will replace natural gas - not 1%, not 10%, but 100%. So we can start by figuring out the cost of ten times as many wind turbines to generate hydrogen for nighttime / cloudy weather, if electricity from the ones currently installed will be powering the grid (they can't do both).
Why ten times? Converting wind electricity to hydrogen and back again is at best ~10% efficient. And there are no guarantees: if the wind stops blowing and you run out of hydrogen, the grid goes down. Kaput.
A statistical model / cost analysis of how a system might work is not rocket science. Take data for wind power output in England - Wales, and do the math:
That's the first step. Otherwise, consumers will be paying for a system that delivers 99% North Sea methane to their homes, not hydrogen, and it will be too late to do anything about it.
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