Retrofitting of existing industrial sector natural gas turbomachinery cogeneration systems for hydrogen combustion
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Programme Name
Programme Description
The Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking or Clean Hydrogen Partnership is a unique public-private partnership supporting research and innovation (R&I) activities in hydrogen technologies in Europe. It builds upon the success of its predecessor, the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking.
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Summary
Technological development of gas turbines combustion systems is aimed to handle incremental percentage of hydrogen blended in the natural gas as fuel. A further step, in accelerating the energy sector decarbonisation, is to provide gas turbine solutions able to be used with their own flexibility in handling fast load changes over the wider range of natural gas / hydrogen blends up to the full hydrogen composition.
In parallel with the incremental hydrogen availability offer expected for the next years, the required final TRL 7 is pushing gas turbine technology and products development to the commercialisation phase and the fleet replacement and/or enhancement by the end users by new engine solutions able to provide with hydrogen/natural gas blends, similar performances of the current natural gas ones.
Detailed Call Description
In order to reach TRL 7 at the end of the project, proposals should therefore include:
- Detailed simulations aimed to define the cogeneration system expected performances and the gas turbine durability (mean time between maintenance in terms of start-stop cycles number and fired hours);
- Development of dedicated safety and plant integration concepts to enable operation of the retrofit GT unit with up to 100% H2;
- Execution of a field test with a gas turbine equipped with DLE H2 system:
- Availability of a gas turbine engine equipped with DLE H2 system;
- Availability of required hydrogen amounts to conduit an engine test campaign with respective feed lines, storage system typically required;
- System behaviour characterisation, including typical transient conditions of the gas turbine system operation (start-up ramp to full load, loads rejections, turndown limits);
- Transient conditions characterisation, related to fuel composition variation;
- Real system environment setup of acoustic damping systems;
- Availability of a demo plant with a cogeneration system and possibility to perform multiple start-stop cycles;
- Evaluation of the legislative barriers, if any, of using co-generation systems including a gas turbine retrofitted with combustion systems able to operate with fuel compositions up to 100% hydrogen.
Considering the purpose of retrofitting the combustion system in existing gas turbines fleets for the hydrogen combustion, the targeted gas turbine size for cogeneration applications is at least 10 MWe.
A minimum number of 60 (not continuous) fired hours should be achieved, to properly cover the system behaviour characterisation, including typical transient conditions of gas turbine system operations.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
EU Contribution per project: € 6,000,000
Number of proposals: 1
Thematic Categories
- Energy
- Environment and Climate Change
- Other Thematic Category
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
At least one partner in the consortium must be a member of either Hydrogen Europe or Hydrogen Europe Research.
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Call Closing Date
EU Contact Point
Email: info@clean-hydrogen.europa.eu
Phone number: +32 22218148
Postal address: Avenue de la Toison d’Or 56-60, 1060 Brussels, Belgium
(Publish Date: 02/03/2023-for internal use only)