Hydrogen as a fuel for high-temperature heating processes

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Challenge

Energy-intensive industrial production processes, for example in the glass, food and ceramic sectors, have a major challenge to decarbonise existing heating processes. A fast and sustainable route to reduce the carbon intensity of these processes is to replace natural gas with hydrogen. However, the technology for this is not yet available. Under the leadership of Celsian and DNV, an international industry consortium has been set up with the aim of developing combustion technology to prepare for a gradual transition from natural gas to hydrogen. This research program provides important building blocks for the roll-out of the sustainable hydrogen value chain.

Project goal

The goal of this project is to develop industrial burners that can cope with natural gas/hydrogen blends ranging from 0-100% hydrogen. The industrial burners will and are be tested in the combustion lab at DNV. Additionally the changes in combustion properties and heat transfer to the load when switching from natural gas to hydrogen will be investigated. Within this study NO_x mitigating measures will be developed and tested and design rules for new build furnaces for hydrogen combustion will be given.

Project details

Consortium partners as per June 2021

Nedmag	Stork Thermeq
FrieslandCampina	SCHOTT
GasTerra	Owens Corning Science & Technology
Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy	Tecoglas
Air Liquide	GRT Gaz
Corbion	Gasunie
Honeywell Thermal solutions	Vereniging Koninklijke Nederlandse Bouwkeramiek (KNB)
Tata Steel	Monarch
Gebr. Van der Lee	Ardagh Glass
Zantingh	Saint Gobain
O-I	AGC
Equinor Energy	Linde Gas
ARC France	SGD Pharma
Verallia Packaging	Vitro Architectural Glass
Nippon Electric Glass (NEG)	Stara Glass S.p.A.
De Jong Combustion	Corning Glass
Bormioli Rocco S.p.A.	Cardinal Glass
BA Glass Portugal S.A.	Global Combustion
Nadir Figueiredo S.A.	CelSian
DNV