Doosan Enerbility Collaborates with UK Company on 'Ammonia Decomposition Technology' Research

Future Application of Technology in Hydrogen Combined Power Plants

Doosan Enerbility has partnered with a UK-based company specializing in petrochemical process licensing and catalyst production to develop 'ammonia cracking' technology that produces hydrogen by decomposing ammonia at high temperatures.

Doosan Enerbility recently announced on the 17th that it signed a 'Collaboration Agreement' for the ammonia cracking business joint research at Johnson Matthey's research and development (R&D) office located in Stockton-on-Tees, England, UK. Founded in 1817, Johnson Matthey is a global company headquartered in the UK that leads sustainable technologies, with sales of 25 trillion KRW last year.

Doosan Enerbility also signed a contract with Johnson Matthey for 'Ammonia Cracking Technology Development Research Services.' Johnson Matthey will conduct research on developing an ammonia cracking model linked to hydrogen combined power plants until the end of the year. Based on this, the two companies plan to jointly develop integrated design technology between the ammonia cracking process and hydrogen combined power generation to apply it to hydrogen combined power plants in the future.

On the 13th (local time), at the agreement ceremony held at the Johnson Matthey R&D office in Stockton-on-Tees, Northeast England, UK, Donggyu Shin, Head of Wind Power and Service Design at Doosan Enerbility (right), and Phil Ingram, Head of Business Development at Johnson Matthey, shook hands after signing.
[Photo by Doosan Enerbility]

Park Hong-wook, Head of Power Service BG at Doosan Enerbility, said, “The hydrogen combined power plant-linked ammonia cracking model under R&D with Johnson Matthey has the advantage of improving the overall power plant efficiency by reutilizing the exhaust heat generated after primary power generation in the hydrogen turbine back into the decomposer.” He added, “Through cooperation with Johnson Matthey, which has a deep understanding of the hydrogen combined power generation model promoted by Doosan Enerbility, we will contribute to advancing the era of high-efficiency hydrogen combined power generation.”

Doosan Enerbility is also accelerating the development of high-efficiency H-class hydrogen turbines in collaboration with domestic industry-academia-research institutes. Since 2020, it has been developing technology for 50% hydrogen co-firing in high-efficiency H-class hydrogen turbines as a national project under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, with plans to demonstrate the developed technology at Korea East-West Power’s Ulsan Combined Power Plant. Additionally, it is developing a 400 MW-class ultra-large hydrogen full combustion turbine with a target completion year of 2027.

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