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Projects: Details for ETI-CC1018
Details for ETI-CC1018
Reference Number ETI-CC1018
Title High Hydrogen
Status Completed
Energy Categories Hydrogen and Fuel Cells(Hydrogen, Hydrogen end uses (incl. combustion; excl. fuel cells)) 75%;
Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Oil and Gas, Oil and gas combustion) 25%;
Research Types Applied Research and Development 100%
Science and Technology Fields ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering) 100%
UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation Not Cross-cutting 100%
Principal Investigator Project Contact
No email address given
Imperial Consultants
Award Type Institute Project
Funding Source ETI
Start Date 29 July 2011
End Date 03 January 2018
Duration 77 months
Total Grant Value £2,000,000
Industrial Sectors Technical Consultancy
Region London
Programme Carbon Capture and Storage
Investigators Principal Investigator Project Contact , Imperial Consultants (99.999%)
Other Investigator Project Contact , Health and Safety Laboratory (0.001%)
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Objectives This project will identify the bounds of safe design and operation of high efficiency combined cycle gas turbine and combined heat and power systems, which operate on a range of fuels with high and variable concentrations of hydrogen. The goal of the project is to increase the range of fuels that can be safely used in power and heat generating plant. Using modeling and large-scale experimental work, this project will benefit the manufacturers and operators of power plants, which may potentially use fuel containing high or variable levels of hydrogen such as gas feeds from landfill and anaerobic digesters.

Extract from Press Release dated 5 Sept 2011 :

"A 2 million project to advance the safe design and operation of gas turbines, reciprocating engines and combined heat & power systems using hydrogen based fuels has been launched by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI.) Through new modeling and large-scale experimental work the ETI project will look to identify the bounds of safe design and operation of high efficiency CCGT (combined cycle gas turbine) and CHP (combined heat and power) systems operating on a range of fuels with high and variable concentrations of hydrogen.

The goals of the project are to increase the range of fuels that can be safely used in power and heat generating plant by: a) Indentifying the boundaries of safe design and operation of power generation systems using hydrogen based fuels; and b) Identifying improvements in the detailed design and instrumentation of hydrogen fuelled power systems in order to deliver more robust and inherently safer system designs.

The outcomes of this project will benefit the manufacturers and operators of all powerplants which may potentially utilise fuel containing high or variable levels of hydrogen such as gas feeds from landfill and anaerobic digestors.

The project will be led by the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL), an agency of the Health and Safety Executive, in collaboration with Imperial Consultants, the consulting arm of Imperial College. The project will investigate the impact of a flameout in a CCGT or reciprocating engine CHP system, which may result in an explosive mixture of fuel and air being pumped into a hot exhaust system before the flameout is detected. This in turn could lead to an explosion."

Abstract

Hydrogen is likely to be an increasingly important fuel component in the future. This 3.5m project was designed to advance the safe design and operation of gas turbines, reciprocating engines and combined heat and power systems using hydrogen-based fuels. Through new modelling and large-scale experimental work the project sought to identify the bounds of safe design and operation of high efficiency combined cycle gas turbine and combined heat and power systems operating on a range of fuels with high and variable concentrations of hydrogen. The goal of the project was to increase the range of fuels that can be safely used in power and heat generating plant. The project involved the Health and Safety Laboratory, an agency of the Health and Safety Executive, in collaboration with Imperial Consultants, the consulting arm of Imperial College London

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Added to Database 15/08/18