Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction, a major player in the South Korean power industry, collaborated with a local power plant design and engineering firm to develop an environmentally friendly hydrogen turbine power plant that generates electricity by burning hydrogen extracted from ammonia.
In a micro-reforming system, hydrogen can be produced by burning and reforming ammonia. Ammonia is thought to be an ideal resource for establishing an environmentally friendly hydrogen fuel cell infrastructure. Doosan Heavy will develop key components of a hydrogen turbine and ammonia reforming facilities, while KEPCO E&C will develop overall power plant engineering technologies.
Because they reduce fine dust and other air pollutants, gas turbines have become one of the most widely used power generation technologies. Seoul policymakers have described gas turbine technology independence as a critical task in terms of energy security. Private companies, government agencies, and research institutes have formed a task force to push for the early commercialization of gas turbine power generation.
South Korea has set a goal of bringing a 300MW hydrogen gas turbine to market by 2040. A standard model of LNG turbines will be developed as a bridge power in energy conversion. In the southeastern industrial city of Ulsan, Doosan Heavy has joined a project to demonstrate mixed hydrogen combustion technologies that burn natural gas and hydrogen together.
Doosan Heavy has been working on a project to show off mixed hydrogen combustion technologies. By 2035, the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy hopes to have mixed combustion technologies that burn more than 30% hydrogen with natural gas commercialized. In 2030, a demonstration of power generation using 20% ammonia in coal-fired power plants will be commercialized.
On the same day, Doosan Heavy and Korea Midland Power and JC Energy signed a separate business cooperation agreement to promote a 100-megawatt fuel cell power generation project in an industrial complex in Yeongam’s southwestern county.
Korea Midland Power, a public power company, will be in charge of obtaining business licenses and providing a site, while JC Energy, a solar and electrical services company, will be in charge of purchasing renewable energy supply certificates and operating a power plant. Doosan Heavy is in charge of engineering, procurement, and construction, as well as operation and maintenance (EPC).
Doosan Heavy will provide a hydrogen turbine and fuel cells manufactured by Doosan Fuel Cell, the company’s clean energy division. Hydrogen fuel cell power generation systems are ideal for providing power to microgrids, which are networks of small, isolated smart power grids in urban environments, because they are much smaller than thermal power plants.
