{"id":144581,"date":"2022-08-22T13:24:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T18:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/can-we-adapt-old-power-plants-to-run-on-green-hydrogen"},"modified":"2022-08-22T13:24:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T18:24:51","slug":"can-we-adapt-old-power-plants-to-run-on-green-hydrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/can-we-adapt-old-power-plants-to-run-on-green-hydrogen","title":{"rendered":"Can We Adapt Old Power Plants to Run on Green Hydrogen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-we-adapt-old-power-plants-to-run-on-green-hydrogen.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Star Scientific invents a catalyst that in the presence of hydrogen and oxygen heats to 700 Celsius. That\u2019s enough heat to drive a steam turbine for power generation.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/starscientific.com.au\/star-scientific-to-provide-carbon-free-industrial-heat-for-mars-food-australia\/\">Star Scientific<\/a> is a 25-year-old research laboratory north of Sydney, Australia. The company is one of many trying to make existing power plants carbon-free. This includes old coal-fired thermal power stations which remain among the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions on the planet. Star has invented a patented non-polluting catalyst which it calls HERO\u00ae which is an acronym for Hydrogen Energy Release Optimizer. It uses hydrogen without producing combustion.<\/p>\n<p>Mars Food Australia, the subsidiary of the global food giant, is using HERO\u00ae to help decarbonize its processes. The 18-month pilot project is the first step in developing alternative heat sources for the food industry. Bill Heague who is General Manager of Mars in Australia states, <em><strong>\u201cThermal energy is crucial to the business of cooking food and this technology has the capability to create limitless heat without any combustion and zero emissions.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>But this is only the beginning because Star has plans to introduce the technology into legacy coal-fired power plants to retrofit existing generators to run on green hydrogen. In an interview with Bloomberg Green, Andrew Horvath, Chairman of Star Scientific states, <em><strong>\u201cWe think there are a lot of opportunities in existing steam turbines that have some longevity\u2026Why would you throw them away? They\u2019re already connected to the grid.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> He cites the example of Japan where 70% of its existing turbines still have 40 years of life left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Scientific invents a catalyst that in the presence of hydrogen and oxygen heats to 700 Celsius. That\u2019s enough heat to drive a steam turbine for power generation. Star Scientific is a 25-year-old research laboratory north of Sydney, Australia. The company is one of many trying to make existing power plants carbon-free. This includes old [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1506,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-food","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}