(12 July 2022, 12:20 +07)
Rolls-Royce has commissioned its first in-house
test stand for mtu hydrogen engines at its Augsburg site.
In 2021, Rolls-Royce announced that as part of its
‘Net Zero at Power Systems’ sustainability program it would
realign its product portfolio so that by 2030, sustainable fuels
and new mtu technologies can achieve greenhouse gas emissions
reduction of 35 percent compared to 2019.
The company is now already successfully operating
an mtu fuel cell system, has released its power generation gensets
for sustainable fuels such as HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oils),
and is developing electrolyzers to produce green hydrogen.
Rolls-Royce has commissioned its first in-house test stand for mtu hydrogen engines
The mtu gas engine portfolio is being prepared for
hydrogen as a fuel, enabling a climate-neutral energy supply.
“This marks another milestone on the road to
climate-neutral products for energy supply,” said Andreas Schell,
CEO of Rolls-Royce’s Power Systems division.
Over the past year and a half, the company has
invested around ten million euros at Rolls-Royce Solutions in
Augsburg in test bench modernization, hydrogen infrastructure and
other measures as part of its ‘Net Zero at Power Systems’ climate
protection program.
The Power Systems division of Rolls-Royce has set
itself strict targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in its
own operations, aiming to be climate neutral worldwide by 2050,
and in Germany as early as 2045.
“The environmental protection measures now
implemented at Rolls-Royce Solutions in Augsburg will benefit both
the company and the city of Augsburg,” said Tobias Schnell,
Managing Director of Rolls-Royce Solutions Augsburg GmbH. “These
include, for example, feeding residual industrial electricity into
the public grid or using waste heat from the test stands to
air-condition buildings. At the Augsburg site, (bio-)gas engines
and, in the future, hydrogen engines are developed and tested, and
gas engine-based systems are built and maintained, which are used,
for example, in combined heat and power plants to generate
electricity and heat.”
Dr. Otto Preiss, Rolls-Royce Power Systems Chief Technology
Officer and COO, added, “To reduce CO2 emissions in electricity supply,
renewable, often decentralized, energy sources are needed to
generate electrical energy on a much larger scale than today. In
conjunction with these renewable sources, we see hydrogen as an
essential energy carrier of the future. That is why we are doing
everything we can to gradually bring our mtu gensets and CHP units
based on the Series 500 and 4000 gas engines to market for
operation with a hydrogen blending of 25 percent by volume (H2)
and more and for operation with up to 100 percent by volume.”
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