Italian vitality infrastructure firm Snam has awarded U.S. vitality know-how firm Baker Hughes a contract to offer three turbocompressors pushed by NovaLT™12 fuel turbine know-how, providing gas flexibility of as much as 10% hydrogen mix with pure fuel, for a brand new fuel compressor station in Sulmona, Italy.
Based on Baker Hughes, this station is an integral a part of Adriatic Line, a Snam pipeline undertaking which entails the development of a 425-kilometer-long, hydrogen-ready pipeline to permit the transport of further vitality provides from Azerbaijan, Africa and the Jap Mediterranean area to northern Europe.
The contract, which was awarded to Baker Hughes following a public tender, builds on a long-standing collaboration between the 2 firms, Baker Hughes mentioned, including that in 2020 the 2 events have been concerned within the testing of the “world’s first ‘hybrid’ hydrogen turbine designed for a fuel community, and the set up of a NovaLT™12 turbine at Snam’s Istrana, Italy, website in November 2022.”
“The adoption of Baker Hughes NovaLT™12 generators, which give the choice to run on 100% pure fuel or hydrogen blends as much as 10%, represents a big milestone in decarbonizing the Italian fuel community infrastructure and aligns with Snam’s technique to attain carbon neutrality on direct emissions by 2040,” Baker Hughes acknowledged.
Ganesh Ramaswamy, Govt Vice President, Industrial & Vitality Know-how at Baker Hughes, commented: “This milestone in our long-standing collaboration with Snam demonstrates that the vitality transition requires steady partnership… Our work with clients and companions is a part of our dedication to growing progressive know-how options, such because the NovaLT™12, that allow the decarbonization of vitality ecosystems and the creation of the hydrogen financial system whereas persevering with to help the necessity for an reasonably priced and safe vitality provide.”
To remind, in January 2024, Baker Hughes shared an replace on a few of its lively hydrogen tasks, together with a brand new hydrogen testing facility in Florence, Italy, and the finished manufacturing and testing of its NovaLT™16 hydrogen generators for the Air Merchandise Web-Zero Hydrogen Vitality Advanced in Edmonton, Canada.
