Construction of a 1,500 MW Hydrogen Power Plant
Construction of a 1,500 MW Hydrogen Power Plant
A project to construct a 1,500 MW hydrogen power plant in Kyrgyzstan.
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in nature — a gas that, when burned, releases a large amount of heat. The energy-to-mass ratio of hydrogen fuel is three times higher than that of gasoline. Compared with conventional energy systems, ways of converting hydrogen energy are diverse, simple, efficient and environmentally friendly. This makes hydrogen part of a new energy paradigm.
MNT Water Destructor
The solution to the challenges of a new energy system based on green hydrogen is our breakthrough technology — the MNT Water Destructor. An international PCT application has already been filed, and we are now entering the international patenting stage. Operation of the laboratory unit proves not only that the technology works, but also that it opens the way to a new global energy system and economy.
Our technology for producing green hydrogen is not tied to the high-cost process of electrolysis. We extract hydrogen from water using high-frequency pulses of extremely low voltage: only 2.82 W of electricity is used per 1 kg of hydrogen (energy from burning 1 kg of hydrogen is 120 MJ, or 33 kWh). Our hydrogen is obtained by decomposing water with an output of atomic hydrogen; the recombination of atomic hydrogen into molecular hydrogen has enormous energy potential. As a result, we produce green hydrogen at a price thousands of times lower than any operating project in the world: the cost of decomposing water and producing hydrogen is $0.001294 per 1 kg. For comparison, the production cost of grey hydrogen — currently the cheapest and most polluting method — is $1.5–2 per kilogram.
Water treatment must also be taken into account, namely deionization. Costs vary depending on the type of water (fresh / seawater) and its quality, ranging from $0.15 to $1.5 per m3 of water, or $0.013 per 1 kg of hydrogen. Thus:
The production cost of green hydrogen from MNT is 1.5 cents per 1 kg.
Operating costs
We place particular emphasis on minimizing operating costs for manufacturing enterprises: our production line has no spend on conventional feedstock — coal or gas — and therefore we save up to 75% in the cost of any manufactured product. We obtain green hydrogen many times cheaper than grey hydrogen, without being tied to gas or coal processing capacity. When energy-intensive industrial plants are organized with our equipment, we reduce capital expenditure on processing facilities by more than 50%.
Brown’s gas
The core of our product is the water destructor, whose output is Brown’s gas, also known as HHO or oxyhydrogen (two parts hydrogen gas and one part oxygen). It exists in a monatomic state (one atom per molecule). In this state, when hydrogen burns (reacts with oxygen), 3.8 times more energy is returned. Brown’s gas is an ideal energy carrier: combustion produces pure water vapour, unlike conventional solutions based on pure hydrogen, which use atmospheric air for combustion.
Combustion technology
- A standard layout is envisaged: a steam turbine and boilers fired with hydrogen fuel (Brown’s mixture).
- Emission control — there are no emissions.
- Water is on the same site as the power plant (no transport costs).
- Cooling water supply: sources (river, lake, wells) must be confirmed.
- Connection to transmission lines and substations for grid offtake.
- Boilers — the indicative number of boiler blocks is chosen for a 1,500 MW structure (for example, 2–3 blocks of 500–750 MW).
- Steam turbines and generators of corresponding capacity.
- There is no flue-gas cleaning system.
The scalability of our unit allows it to be used everywhere: on any mode of transport, from private cars to seagoing vessels and aircraft; to build chemical and metallurgical plants on hydrogen; and to generate electricity supplying the largest enterprises and even cities.
