Mitsubishi Power’s Takasago Hydrogen Park enters full-scale operation
In Japan, Mitsubishi Power has announced that Takasago Hydrogen Park, what it claims to be world’s first integrated hydrogen validation facility, has entered full-scale operation.
The park is located at MHI’s Takasago Machinery Works in Hyogo Prefecture in west central Japan. Electrolysis hydrogen production recently began operation at the park, and Mitsubishi Power said it aims to improve product reliability through the validation of hydrogen co-firing and 100% hydrogen firing of gas turbines, while also implementing successive expansion with the introduction of next-generation hydrogen production technologies.
Takasago Hydrogen Park is divided into sections according to three hydrogen-related functions: hydrogen production, storage, and utilization. In the production area, an alkaline electrolyzer manufactured by HydrogenPro AS of Norway with a hydrogen production capacity of 1,100Nm3/h, has entered operation. The hydrogen produced will be stored in storage equipment with a total capacity of 39,000 Nm3.
Mitsubishi Power said it is currently developing hydrogen production technologies, including solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOEC), anion exchange membrane (AEM) water electrolyzers, and next-generation turquoise-hydrogen production technology that produces hydrogen without emitting CO2 through the pyrolysis of methane into hydrogen and solid carbon.
Category: Hydrogen
