Name of the Project
Takasago Hydrogen Park.

Location
In the gas turbine development and manufacturing facility of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Takasago Machinery Works in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.

Project Owner/s
Mitsubishi Power, a subsidiary of MHI.

Project Description
Takasago Hydrogen Park will be the world’s first centre for the validation of hydrogen-related technologies – from hydrogen production to power generation – and will be successively expanded and developed going forward.

The centre will be colocated at MHI’s Takasago Machinery Works to support the commercialisation of hydrogen gas turbines using hydrogen as fuel. The hydrogen production facility will use a water electrolysis system. Mitsubishi Power plans to conduct successive testing and verification of other next-generation hydrogen production technologies; for example, producing turquoise hydrogen through the pyrolysis of methane into hydrogen and solid carbon.

For the combustion chamber, the key component of hydrogen gas turbines, Mitsubishi Power will create a work-flow that includes the development centre, the design and production of an actual machine at the manufacturing plant, and validation testing at the demonstration facility.

Completing this development cycle within the same plant will allow for quicker and more certain product development and commercialisation.

Potential Job Creation
Not stated.

Capital Expenditure
Not stated.

Planned Start/End Date
Mitsubishi Power has started testing and demonstrating technologies, including hydrogen production and storage, and the hydrogen fuelling of gas turbines. It aims to start operations in the 2023 financial year.

Latest Developments
Takasago Hydrogen Park has entered full-scale operation.

Electrolysis hydrogen production recently began operation at the park, and Mitsubishi Power 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.

The park is divided into sections according to three hydrogen-related functions: hydrogen production, storage, and utilisation. In the production area, an alkaline electrolyser manufactured by HydrogenPro of Norway with a hydrogen production capacity of 1 100 Nm³/h, the highest in the world, has entered operation. The hydrogen produced will be stored in storage equipment with a total capacity of 39 000 Nm³.

The validation of hydrogen firing equipment will be done at the T-Point 2 combined-cycle power plant validation facility located in the utilisation area.

The hydrogen produced at Takasago Hydrogen Park will be used to validate 30% hydrogen co-firing at T-Point 2, a grid-connected gas turbine combined-cycle power plant and is expected to be completed before the end of the year. Validation of 100% hydrogen firing in the H-25 gas turbine is planned for 2024.

Key Contracts, Suppliers and Consultants
HydrogenPro of Norway (alkaline electrolyser).

Contact Details for Project Information
MHI, email mediacontact_global@mhi.com.