The volume of hydrogen production at the future bench test facility at Kola NPP (Murmansk Region, Russia) will be up to 150 tonnes of hydrogen per year, the plant’s press service reported on 11 January, Interfax reported.
The products of the bench-testing complex will be especially pure hydrogen compressed to 400 atm with an annual production volume of up to 150 tonnes, the report said.
In December 2023, KNPP Director Vasily Omelchuk said that the plant retains plans to launch the bench test facility in 2025. At the same time, he noted that hydrogen projects were initially export-oriented. “Today exports are closed for us, so hydrogen projects are in a certain uncertainty (…),” he said.
Earlier, Omelchuk reported that the hydrogen production complex will have a capacity of 200 tonnes per year.
Rosenergoatom Concern JSC is conducting an environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the project to build a hydrogen production bench test complex at KNPP from April 2023 to April 2024. The documentation noted that the capacity of the hydrogen production test facility should be 200 normal cubic metres per hour. The production method is water electrolysis.At the end of 2022, the KNPP press service reported that the plant became a pilot site for hydrogen production using a new environmentally friendly technology, and pilot production was launched at the plant. Proton exchange membranes were used instead of alkaline-type electrolysers. The purity of hydrogen was 99.999%.
Kola NPP is located 200 kilometres south of Murmansk, on the shore of Lake Imandra. The NPP is the largest energy enterprise on the Kola Peninsula, supplier of electricity for the Murmansk Region and Karelia, generates about 60% of electricity in the Murmansk Region. There are 4 power units with VVER-type reactors with a capacity of 440 MW each in operation.
Photo of Kola NPP
