EBARA Develops Liquid Hydrogen Booster Pump

EBARA has developed the world's first liquid hydrogen booster pump for hydrogen power generation consistent with the global expansion of the hydrogen market.In 2019, as a grant project by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, EBARA started developing the world's first liquid hydrogen booster pump for hydrogen power generation, which is required to supply hydrogen to hydrogen power generation gas turbines. Using this liquid hydrogen prototype pump, we conducted a test with liquid hydrogen at minus 253 degree Celsius at JAXA Noshiro Experimental Station in Akita in October 2022 and has obtained favorable results that contributed to designing a large flow rate booster pump.Liquid hydrogen that will be used for hydrogen power generation is transported from overseas is kept in a storage tank. A Liquid hydrogen booster pump is required when it is unloaded from the tank and supplied to a hydrogen gas turbine. Due to the high level of technical difficulty, pumps with a large capacity capable of handling liquid hydrogen at minus 253 degree Celsius and high pressure for power generation are not currently in the market. Based on strong high-pressure centrifugal pumps and cryogenic technology, EBARA is planning to launch them in the market in 2023 as the world's first pump to supply liquid hydrogen fuel.EBARA possesses technological capabilities that are compatible with a hydrogen society in the processes of Hydrogen production, transportation and End-use. Especially, as for hydrogen transportation, EBARA has technologies for Cryogenic liquid hydrogen pump as well as for compressors. EBARA has been developing various transportation methods to realize the hydrogen society such as liquid hydrogen, compressed hydrogen, and liquid ammonia.

EBARA Develops Liquid Hydrogen Booster Pump

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