At Takasago Works, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries plans to test technology ranging from hydrogen production to power generation.
In 2025, it intends to gradually expand related equipment and commercialize products that are 30% co-firing with large gas turbines and 100% dedicated to small and medium gas turbines.
On the plant’s grounds, the Takasago Hydrogen Park will be built next to the demonstration facility complex cycle power plant. It is expected to begin testing and demonstration operations of hydrogen production, storage, and combustion technology in gas turbines by 2023.
The hydrogen production facility will test and demonstrate next-generation hydrogen production technology, such as the production of turquoise hydrogen by thermally decomposing methane into hydrogen and solid carbon, in addition to using a water electrolyser.
The combustor, which is a key component of water gas turbines, is developed at the development base, designed, and manufactured at the manufacturing plant, and Takasago Seisakusho has built a comprehensive system covering development to verification and verification.
It has created a system to verify at the machine level in production and demonstration equipment. Verification tests of each element are carried out at the basic design stage of its gas turbine development, the results are reflected in the detailed design, and finally, verification using the actual machine is carried out.
It will be connected to the local power grid for a long-term demonstration of the next-generation high-efficiency large-scale gas turbine JAC, which for the first time in the world achieved a high temperature of 1,650° C at the gas turbine inlet temperature.
It is testing the long-term reliability of newly developed technology while simulating the operation of a real power plant. This facility is unique in the world, and it began a long-term demonstration operation as a state-of-the-art gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) power generation facility with an output of 566,000 kW on July 1, 2020.
It will verify 30 percent hydrogen co-firing power generation using the JAC type for commercialization in 2025. Furthermore, hydrogen combustion in H-25 type gas turbines will be demonstrated using 100 percent hydrogen combustion in small and medium-sized gas turbines.
