Project description DEENESFRITPL Advancing the decarbonisation of gas turbines Gas turbines are a cost-effective option for large-scale power generation, and mixing hydrogen with natural gas can help decarbonise their fuel. With this in mind, the EU-funded HELIOS project will develop a retrofit solution for hydrogen combustion in gas turbines using the FlameSheet™ combustor. Specifically, the project will seek to understand hydrogen combustion and combine this knowledge with advanced numerical modelling and measurement techniques in a full-size combustor. Not only will it address technical challenges, but it will also stimulate innovation and create fertile ground for future adoption of this technology. HELIOS has the potential to contribute to the goal of making the European energy system smart, clean, flexible, secure, cost competitive and efficient. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective Nowadays, the increasing awareness of the need to decarbonise the economy has put pressure on the power generation sector to reduce their share CO2 emissions. In this context, gas turbines are the most robust, mature, and cost-effective technology especially for large-scale power generation. A convenient approach to decarbonise the fuel of gas turbines is to mix natural gas with increasingly amounts of hydrogen. As such, it becomes essential although challenging for gas turbines to operate any mixture of natural gas and hydrogen. HELIOS will develop the needed technology for hydrogen combustion as a retrofit solution based on the FlameSheet™ combustor. Essential for this approach is a sound fundamental understanding of hydrogen combustion, combined with advanced numerical modelling techniques and measurement techniques of hydrogen combustion in a full-size combustor. This is essential to boost the required technological developments for utilization of hydrogen-enriched natural gas with the FlameSheet™ combustor. The HELIOS project will start at the gas-turbine testing using the FlameSheet™ combustor at well-defined lab conditions (TRL 4) and will reach realistic conditions in a relevant environment (TRL 6) by the end of the project. Besides the technical developments, HELIOS will stimulate the emergence of an immense innovative ecosystem and create a fertile ground for future up-take of this technology at larger scale. This becomes more and more relevant since GTs are one of the few options to generate high amounts of energy that are needed to compensate a grid that heavily relies on Renewable Energy Sources (RES) due to fluctuating wind and solar electricity supply. This HELIOS concept has the potential to contribute significantly to solving substantial challenges that Europe faces while pursuing to make its energy system smart, clean, flexible, secure, cost competitive and efficient. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energynatural gasnatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems Programme(s) HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility Main Programme Topic(s) HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2022-04-04 - Dry Low NOx combustion of hydrogen-enriched fuels at high-pressure conditions for gas turbine applications Call for proposal HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2022-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme RIA - Research and Innovation action Coordinator TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN Net EU contribution € 523 312,00 Address Groene loper 3 5612 AE Eindhoven Netherlands See on map Region Zuid-Nederland Noord-Brabant Zuidoost-Noord-Brabant Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,50 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all THOMASSEN ENERGY B.V. Netherlands Net EU contribution € 1 272 750,00 Address Havelandseweg 8d 6991 GS Rheden See on map Region Oost-Nederland Gelderland Arnhem/Nijmegen Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 OPRA ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS BV Netherlands Net EU contribution € 148 000,00 Address Haaksbergerstraat 71 7554 PA Hengelo See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Oost-Nederland Overijssel Twente Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Third-party Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure. OPRA TURBINES INTERNATIONAL B.V. Netherlands Net EU contribution € 21 375,00 Address Haaksbergerstraat 71 7554 Hengelo See on map Region Oost-Nederland Overijssel Twente Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 CENTRO COMBUSTIONE AMBIENTE SPA Italy Net EU contribution € 450 750,00 Address Via milano km 1600 70023 Gioia del colle See on map Region Sud Puglia Bari Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV Germany Net EU contribution € 1 019 625,00 Address Linder hohe 51147 Koln See on map Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Köln, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT Netherlands Net EU contribution € 548 375,00 Address Stevinweg 1 2628 CN Delft See on map Region West-Nederland Zuid-Holland Delft en Westland Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00
