Rolls-Royce to produce green hydrogen

Rolls-Royce plans to produce green hydrogen at is Friedrichshafen headquarters and test its mtu hydrogen engines and fuel cell systems.

The company also announced that it has successfully tested its 250kw fuel cell demonstrator, which proved that the system could provide uninterruptible power in a blackout situation.

The company, which is developing its own standardised mtu electrolysers with outputs of up to 4MW, with the capacity to scale up to more than 100MW, purchased a stake in electrolysis stack developer Hoeller Electrolyser last year.

The Rolls-Royce ‘H2Infrastructure’ funding project will cover the production of green hydrogen via PEM electrolysis and will see hydrogen production capacity successively expand to 10MW to provide sufficient green hydrogen for development processes in propulsion technology.

Rolls-Royce revealed its mtu fuel cell system will be used in the port of Duisport as part of the publicly funded enerPort II project, one of the ‘world’s largest’ island ports. It will commission a new terminal with a hydrogen-based supply network during 2024.

The majority of electricity and thermal energy required at the port will be generated directly on site via hydrogen, which will be ensured by two mtu fuel cell systems and two combined heat and power plants with mtu Series 4000 hydrogen engines.

The mtu Series 4000 l64 engine recently underwent tests conducted by the company which saw the 12-cylinder gas engine ran with 100% hydrogen.