The Fuel of the Future: Pure Hydrogen Powered Engines | Wärtsilä

Wärtsilä's pure hydrogen engines – the future of fuel? In this video we show how a hydrogen powered engine is developed and hydrogen safety is tested and ensured at Wärtsilä. For a future of 100% renewable energy.

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The flexible engine power plants are already capable of using 100% synthetic and carbon-neutral methane and methanol. They are also capable of combusting hydrogen/natural gas blends with up to 25% hydrogen – and Wärtsilä is working towards an engine and power plant concept for pure hydrogen operations.

Topics of this video:
00:00 Intro
00:28 What are the fuels of the future?
01:30 Hydrogen Engines by Wärtsilä
02:00 Hydrogen Gas Safety: Transition to Renewable Energy

▬ Hydrogen – a sustainable fuel for the future ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Hydrogen will play a major role in developing sustainable fuels and provides a variety of possibilities as it can be used as a fuel in the future to help mitigate climate change. Green hydrogen can also act as raw material for producing other renewable synthetic fuels, such as methane or methanol, while utilising existing infrastructure.

Wärtsilä is researching various sustainable fuels in order to provide customers with future-proof solutions to support the transition towards a 100% renewable energy future and helping decarbonise the planet.

Wärtsilä engines are already capable of combusting 100% synthetic carbon-neutral methane and methanol. Tests with blends of up to 60% hydrogen and 40% natural gas have also already been made with Wärtsilä engines and the development continues towards the use of a higher share of hydrogen. Up to 25% hydrogen blended with natural gas can already today be used in our engines.

▬ Decarbonising with sustainable fuels ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
The urgent need to take action to decarbonise and reduce the global carbon footprint is seen globally. Countries, regions, significant industrial players and companies are setting renewable energy or decarbonisation targets.

To fully overcome renewable intermittency, energy systems must employ all available flexibility solutions, from energy storage which discharges over a period of hours – to thermal balancing using sustainable fuels, which can be transported and stored over many months.

The influx of renewables entering power systems is creating the right conditions for excess clean electricity to be used as a raw material for new types of hydrogen-based, carbon neutral sustainable fuels.

Together with flexible power plants, sustainable fuels can meet the critical demand for long-term storage solutions that balance grids in an affordable and sustainable way.

▬ Power-to-X – fuel out of thin air ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Power-to-X is a process which allows the creation of carbon neutral, renewable future fuels. By capturing CO₂ from the air and combining it with green hydrogen, multiple different carbon-neutral future fuels can be created.

In the future, fossil fuels will be replaced by these future fuels as they lower the impact on the climate. Power-to-X can accelerate decarbonisation in industries, transportation and the energy sector.

Today, the extraction of fossil fuels used in various applications is accompanied by continuous increase in release of CO₂ into the atmosphere.

When existing CO₂ in the air is reused as a raw material for synthetic fuel production and other processes – there are no new CO₂ emissions. Circular carbon economy ensures CO₂ balance by recycling CO₂ emissions and utilisation non-fossil alternatives with a support of e.g. forests acting as carbon sinks.

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▬ About Wärtsilä ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Wärtsilä enables sustainable societies through innovation in technology and services together with all our stakeholders – today and tomorrow.

We emphasise innovation in sustainable technology and services to help our customers continuously improve environmental and economic performance. We work together with our strong ecosystem of partners every day, providing a wide portfolio of leading technologies and innovative solutions that offer our customers superior uptime, reliability and foreseeable lifecycle costs across their operations.

Our global passionate team of 17,500 energy and maritime experts in 200 locations in more than 70 countries is committed to shaping decarbonisation transformation of our industries across the globe.

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[kresimirmilisa]

Very nice to go on hydrogen every machine vehicle and aircrafts.

[davidhumphrys]

Lots of talk but where are the engines?

[HEMehernoshShroffKnight]

i am very excited on switch over to Hydrogen as a fuel, its practical its viable very do able,

Mehernosh Shroff
Knight ORH
chief engineer fellow of IMEI no 2799
naval architect
IMO III etc

[amit_thkur]

Have you try to make any electrical engin

[mojojojo_BB]

Why focus on hydrogen engines instead of fuel cells? Aren't fuel cells more efficient?

[jb-xcoh]

All this talk about hydrogen today is a non starter because of the cost of making hydrogen. All this talk about renewables is nonsense at this point in time since only 0.7% of the world's energy supply comes from renewables. You will never run a modern industrialized society on solar power and windmills.