據世界石油8月31日消息稱，西門子可再生能源公司(Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA)已著眼于未來，其風力渦輪機可能在制造氫氣方面發揮關鍵作用。

該公司于今年早些時候推出了世界上最大的風力渦輪機，計劃在丹麥啟動一個試點項目，以測試其機器如何為燃料生產提供動力，這被視為消除運輸和重工業碳排放的關鍵。歐盟已經制定了清潔能源的宏偉計劃，并在今年早些時候將其置于綠色協議的中心位置。

西門子首席執行官Andreas Nauen星期四在接受采訪時說，該試點項目正在公司位于丹麥西部布蘭德附近進行建設。它將包括一個3兆瓦的風力渦輪機，它將為400千瓦的電解槽提供動力，該電解槽將水中的氫原子與氧原子分開。

Nauen表示：“我們將首次將兩種技術結合在一起。” Nauen今年6月接任首席執行官，此前他曾領導該公司的海外部門。“這不是為了大量生產氫，而是為了測試兩者的結合。”

這可能是一個引人注目的模式。丹麥公用事業公司Orsted A/S已經在為其風力發電場開發多個氫氣項目，荷蘭皇家殼牌公司計劃在荷蘭海岸修建一個公園來生產天然氣。制造和銷售氫燃料可以為風力發電項目提供新的收入來源，從而抵消電力市場有時波動帶來的風險。

Nauen說，以前沒有人在沒有電網連接的情況下單獨使用風能來生產氫氣。這個項目將為擴大這項技術在陸地和海上更大的渦輪機和風力發電場的應用提供重要的見解。

今年早些時候，西門子宣布計劃建造一個14兆瓦的海上渦輪機，其風輪直徑為222米（728英尺），比以前的記錄大幾米。

該公司預計將從10月至12月在氫試驗中進行測試，然后在1月開始生產氫。丹麥一家名為Everfuel的氫燃料公司將為在哥本哈根使用的出租車和公共汽車等車輛提供氫燃料。

歐洲各國政府計劃斥資數十億美元扶持國內氫氣生產行業。這筆資金可以幫助擴大生產規模，降低成本。

曹海斌 摘譯自 世界石油

原文如下：

Siemens to explore leveraging wind power for hydrogen production

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA has one eye on the future where its wind turbines could play a key role in creating hydrogen.

The company, which earlier this year launched the world’s biggest wind turbine, plans to start a pilot project in Denmark to test how its machines could power production of the fuel seen as key to eliminating carbon emissions from transportation and heavy industries. The European Union has big plans for the clean-burning gas and the bloc placed it at the center of its Green Deal earlier this year.

The pilot project is under construction near Siemens Gamesa’s Danish headquarters in Brande, western Denmark, Chief Executive Officer Andreas Nauen said in an interview on Thursday. It will include a 3-megawatt wind turbine that will power a 400-kilowatt electrolyzer, a machine that separates the hydrogen atoms in water from oxygen atoms.

“We will be for the first time combining the two technologies,” said Nauen, who took over as CEO in June after leading the company’s offshore division. “It is not to produce hydrogen in big quantities, but to test the combination of both.”

It could be a compelling model. Danish utility Orsted A/S is already exploring a number of hydrogen projects for its wind farms and Royal Dutch Shell Plc plans to produce the gas from a park it’s going to build off the Dutch coast. Making and selling hydrogen could provide a new source of revenue for wind projects that would offset the risk in the sometimes volatile electricity market.

No one before has used wind power alone, without a grid connection, to produce hydrogen, Nauen said. It’s a project that will provide insight that could be crucial to scaling up the technology to much larger turbines and wind farms both on land and at sea.

Earlier this year, Siemens Gamesa announced plans to build a 14-megawatt offshore turbine with a rotor diameter of 222 meters (728 feet), a few meters larger than the previous record.

The company expects to conduct testing at the hydrogen pilot from October to December and then start hydrogen production in January. A Danish hydrogen fuel company called Everfuel will distribute the gas for vehicles including taxis and buses to use in Copenhagen.

European governments aim to spend billions of dollars to help nurture domestic industries to produce hydrogen. The funding could help scale production and bring down costs.