Power Engineering
Summary
The world’s first integrated power-to-X-to-power hydrogen gas turbine demonstrator has been launched.
The HYFLEXPOWER project comprises a consortium made up of Engie Solutions, Siemens Gas and Power, Centrax, Arttic, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and four European universities.
The €15.2m ($17m) project will mainly be funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation.
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 a recycled paper manufacturing plant operated by Smurfit Kappa in Saillat-sur-Vienne, France.
According to the ADEME, France’s agency for environment and energy management, Power to X (or P2X) is the act of converting electricity into another energy vector. For the HYFLEXPOWER project, the “X” vector is hydrogen.
The purpose of the project is to prove that hydrogen can be produced and stored from renewable electricity and then added with up to 100 per cent 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 HYFLEXPOWER project hopes to demonstrate that renewable hydrogen can serve as a flexible means of storing energy which can then be used to power a high-power industrial turbine.
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