Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review
    Vol. 59 No. 4 (2022)   Carbon Neutral
    Technical Papers

    Initiatives "Takasago Hydrogen Park" to Create a Hydrogen Society

    JUNICHIRO MASADA
    MASASHI TERAUCHI
    MASANORI YURI
    YUICHIRO KITAGAWA
    KENICHIRO KOSAKA
    KAZUHIRO DOMOTO

    Looking the global trend toward carbon neutrality, there is an urgent need to make GTCC power generation plant and steam power generation plant, which are among the main products of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), carbon-neutral as well. In such an environment, the Takasago Hydrogen Park, the world's first integrated validation facility for technologies from hydrogen production to power generation, is being constructed at our Takasago Machinery Works, where we develop and manufacture hydrogen gas turbines. This report presents its construction status and a hydrogen production technology to be introduced. In addition, the Takasago Hydrogen Park is scheduled to expand its related facilities sequentially and is targeted at the commercialization of 30% co-firing large gas turbine products and 100% hydrogen-firing small-to-middle gas turbine products by 2025.