Hydrogen

Baker Hughes Chairman and CEO Lorenzo Simonelli outlined a decade-long growth cycle for industrial energy centered on turbomachinery, LNG, and AI data center power, highlighting the company’s shift toward industrial energy technology.

The companies will advance the realization of international liquefied hydrogen supply chains across Europe and Asia, contributing to global decarbonization and energy security.

The partnership aims to enhance Canada’s role as a hub for sustainable energy logistics, while bolstering energy security on the demand side in hydrogen-importing countries.

The project successfully achieved large-capacity storage while maintaining high quality and cost efficiency by leveraging a soil-covered raised roof and advanced seismic design.

Sealed compressors leverage compactness, low maintenance requirements, and emissions-free operation to enable solutions across the ongoing energy transition.

Turbomachinery International is celebrating Klaus Brun and Rainer Kurz, the Myth Busters, for 20 years of consistent debate, exploration, and the technical breakdown of all things rotating machinery.

The new engine was developed with knowledge from fundamental studies on hydrogen-related materials and combustion, in addition to durability testing of fuel injection systems.

The March 2026 issue covers centrifugal compressor shaft vibration, quality assurance and control, sealed compressors, fluid-structure interactions, high-pressure pipelines, and more.

The integration propels both companies beyond their individual, equipment-focused structures into solution providers with response capabilities across gas turbines and compressors.

The next-generation unit is designed to deliver high compression ratios for large volumes of refrigerant hydrogen in a compact footprint, while improving overall plant efficiency.

The demonstration was conducted at IHI’s dedicated test facility, engineered to simulate the operating conditions of GE Vernova’s F-class gas turbine.

The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear plant is equipped with four Pielstick 18 PA6 B engines as backup power sources, which must be maintained to the highest standards despite low operational demands.

The company will improve the efficiency of its fuel supply system for a gas turbine, while Kobe Steel develops an intermediate fluid vaporizer to utilize cold energy from liquefied hydrogen.

Replacing fossil LNG with bio-LNG sourced from agricultural waste can reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 2.75 tons in existing dual-fuel engines, even without additional modifications.

The company is evaluating Saudi Arabia as a potential strategic base for its hydrogen compressor business, with large-scale centrifugal models under development in the region.

The collaborative effort aims to capture 1.1 million tons of CO2 per year under GO4ZERO, Holcim’s investment program focused on achieving carbon neutrality in Belgium by 2030.

The HydroPoLEn project has designed and successfully validated a combustion process, mechanical components, and parts for hydrogen-based propulsion in the maritime sector.

The power plants can be connected to the grid within 12- 18 months of ordering, with availability as backup power or compensating for fluctuations in wind and solar energy.

The company conducted long-term durability testing in July 2024, confirming that its system achieved the planned power output and suppressed NOx and N2O emissions.

The Necton Greener Grid Park is designed to strengthen Great Britain’s electricity grid as renewable generation and high-voltage direct-current connections rapidly expand.

The award falls under an agreement between Baker Hughes and Twenty20 Energy, which aims to provide resilient and sustainable power to meet expanding AI digital infrastructure.

The strategic agreement with Baker Hughes comes as Hydrostor nears construction on advanced compressed air energy storage projects in the United States and Australia.

The equipment will support Honeywell’s hydrogen purification system, ammonia processing, and syngas processing, addressing multiple stages of the clean ammonia value chain.

Prior to its designation as a reserve power source, the Birr test facility validated advanced gas turbine technologies and drove performance, emissions, and fuel flexibility improvements.

The initial research collaboration, forged in 2020, focused on next-generation clean energy solutions and analyzed large-scale data volumes from Indonesian power plants.