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Logan Energy and Locogen awarded funding for Arbikie hydrogen project

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Global Hydrogen Review,


The Arbikie Highland Estate Distillery near Montrose, Scotland, is one step closer to becoming net zero thanks to a £3 million funding award granted to UK renewables company, Locogen, in partnership with hydrogen technologies specialist, Logan Energy.

The Phase 2 funding from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) Green Distilleries competition will see the duo work with Arbikie to install an onsite wind turbine and electrolyser that will generate green hydrogen – replacing the polluting oil currently used by the distillery to raise steam for the distillation process.

The Green Distilleries fund aims to help distilleries cut CO2 emissions by 1 million t, contributing to Scotland and the UK’s national target to be carbon neutral by 2045 and 2050 respectively, with each distillery deploying innovative green solutions in order to achieve these ambitious goals.

Burning hydrogen does not release any carbon emissions and therefore the Arbikie project represents a clean fuel alternative to current practices. The project will showcase the technical feasibility of using hydrogen as an alternative fuel in distillation and other process heat applications, and will have enormous replicability across industry whilst acting as a catalyst for creating green hydrogen opportunities in the wider Angus area.

The project will comprise a single 1 MW wind turbine on Arbikie’s farm land, which will export its generation to a green hydrogen hub via a dedicated private wire. The green hydrogen hub will be based at Arbikie Distillery and comprise an electrolyser, compressor and storage.

Green hydrogen will be created by the electrolyser and a direct pipe will take the stored hydrogen from the storage vessel to the existing plant room. A burner and boiler compatible with burning hydrogen will then be used to create steam which will deliver the heat for distillation. This will replace gas oil that is currently used to raise steam at the distillery.

Read the article online at: https://www.globalhydrogenreview.com/hydrogen/25112021/logan-energy-and-locogen-awarded-funding-for-arbikie-hydrogen-project/

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